Is atheism a belief?

[Deesse23]

~ All of us reject these claims. We do not find them persuasive.

Not accepting a claim (= *rejecting*) is not equal to believing its wrong....

I want to show that any thinking adult who has heard and rejected the claims made by religious people has rejected those claims based on beliefs that he has.

....Therefore this statement is not true.

Unless of ocurse *rejecting x* equals *believing x is untrue* to you. In this case i bet many atheists arent like you and *reject x* (= believe x is wrong), but just *dont accept x*.

Edit: just re-read the past few pages and found this:

A person may not believe your story..or a person my positively disbelieve your story...

That's right. That's what I mean by "rejecting a claim."

Jörmungandr obviously has been spot on. Belaqua actually didnt conflate "not believing in x" with "believing x is false", but he went full retard by relating the way how somebody arrives at aheism (aka. reasoning, epistemology) directly to atheism.
Well, yeah, no shit sherlock, we all base our existence on some basic belief, like believing we are alive, or believing there is a (common) reality we live in. That doesnt make atheism a belief. If we go by Belaquas reasoning, everything is just a belief, which i bet the thinks to be a very deep statement. If anything is a belief, then you may as well delete the word "knowledge" from your dictionary, since you may just believe in tangible evidece for any claim, because.....you just believe we arent brains in vats.

Incredible how some people desperately are looking for arguments to come to conclusions they seemingly already have made. The mental gymnastics to *show* that atheism is a belief are incredible, and i am wondering what the psychological needs are for people to do so. I can relate to why theists need to paint atheism as a belief, but why someobody who is a self proclaimed atheist does, we will probably never know.

Anyway, back to more pressing concerns of (my) life. Laundry needs to be done.