Is atheism a belief?

[downbeatplumb]

I think your issue is with the definition of god.

By the way I also count the hindus and Ra believers as theists the judeo Christian god is only one of several thousand. To be an atheist you have to not believe in any of them.

According to the previous poster you can be an atheist and believe in Ra, just don’t call Ra a god and that’s all you need.

Just like you can be an atheist and believe in a higher power, or a universal life source, merely by not calling these things god/s.

I didn't see that. I thought that Ra was a sun god making a believer in Ra a theist. 

You believe in a god, you are a theist.

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Ok this is wikipedias definition of atheism.

Atheism

Atheism is, in the broadest sense, the absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is the rejection of belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which, in its most general form, is the belief that at least one deity exists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism


So if you don't believe in some form of deity you are an atheist.

That's it.


I think some people don't like to think of themselves as atheists even though they are. I guess those people would be americans where it is apparently ok to be oppress atheists.