Is atheism a belief?

[Belacqua]

The fact that you converse with the term "God" proves your position is biased with respect to YOUR god. 
There is no difference among ALL god claims. I don't have to even agree to talk about YOUR god. I don't care about your god. Your god is not even coherently defined. 

Here I think you have me confused with someone else. I am not at all religious. This thread is about how we form beliefs.

I'll use a small g on this thread in the future, if it will help avoid confusion.

2. IF, in fact you are equating THAT position with the position of someone of "faith" it's a pretty damning comparison. 

There can't *be* any evidence for something, until the *thing* is defined. It is not defined.

This seems like a reason a person might have to reject claims about gods. If they believe that something undefined is not believable, then they would reject the concept for that reason.

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No, an atheist does not necessarily make that claim. They might just not care to evaluate the evidence, 

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Yes, that's true. I guess I've let my original narrow claim get lost in the mix. 

Originally, I said that any adult who has heard and rejected religious claims has reasons for rejecting those claims. By "reject" I meant that they actively consider those claims and conclude that they are not persuasive. 

So I am talking only about such people. This doesn't include people raised by wolves, infants, brain-dead stroke victims, rocks, lizards, space aliens, etc. 

But I'll try to be clearer about this in the future. 

or they might want to know first who/what the heck is "God".

Yes, if they feel the term has no meaning, that would be a good reason to withhold belief.