Is atheism a belief?

[The Grand Nudger]

Possible Atheist B simply doesn't believe in your silly stories

Does he reject them for reasons, or for no reasons?

That's the rub, Bel...it doesn't matter.  He's an atheist either way. Not all atheists are atheists for the same reason..or even any discernible reason whatsoever. That they're all atheists only establishes a single line of commonality.

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-and, just to repeat this..I still don't understand what the point of this is?  I'm still right here, still the kind of atheist you insist that all atheists must somehow be, even though my own reasons for positive disbelief in your god aren't the ones you think are common.  They're literary, not scientific, lol.  

It's because I know what gods are that I can say with certainty that they don't exist as the faithful use that term...not because of the age of the earth or evolutionary biology or what have you. At best, the latter would rule out a tiny fraction of stories about a tiny fraction of gods..in the same way that it would rule out any claim that I'd jumped so high I touched the moon. It still wouldn't rule out the existence of the divine anmore than noting that I couldn;t have jumped so high I touched the moon rules out my own existence. It's the insistence of the faithful, in point of fact..that those types of stories be true or their god is bullshit, that rules out those gods.

Magic book itself gets in on -that- action. When people insist that their god is a god that did things that never happened, they make themselves into fools - "and if christ did not come, then all of our preaching has been useless".