Is atheism a belief?

[Amarok]

You seem to be of the opinion that saying "that's just your take" turns everything into a wash, Max.  You're wrong..and this stands as a case in point about how, between two people, one of them actually can be wrong and so everything isn't actually a wash.

I know  it's his default too poo  poo away criticism

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One person saying "you're wrong" doesn't validate an argument anymore than another person saying "you're wrong."

Accept when one side is wrong 

Definitions in society that have legality behind them and are necessary for a society to function do have validity,

Yup and atheism is already defined regardless of societies opinions 

 because we have to observe them even if we don't agree with them.  

Yup and atheism is already defined regardless of societies opinions 

 So him saying "you're wrong" to it doesn't hold weight. 

Actually it does because they are 

 If someone says they are an "atheist" and believes they are an "atheist" then they have any and all legal protections applied to that belief. 

Which does change the term or make them right 

 It doesn't mean he can't believe his version is correct, 

It is correct 

but it only applies to himself or anyone else who adheres to that viewpoint. 

Nope the term atheist applies to every atheist your either fit it or you don't 

 It can't invalidate other atheists and their right to declare themselves atheists or to be recognized as such.

They can declare themselves anything they like if they don't fit they aren't atheist they aren't atheists. They can call themselves a fruit roll up it doesn't make them one .