Is atheism a belief?

[Little lunch]

If you grow up with atheist parents then the chances are you'll be atheist and if your parents were x-tian you'd most likely be x-tian.
It's natural to trust that they know more then you when you're young.
If you grew up with x-tian parents and you were an atheist then you're probably not that smart as you didn't trust you're parents who obviously knew more than you.
If you grow up with atheist parents and you were a x-tian then you're also not that smart as you trusted others more than your own parents.
I'm not sure what happens when you have one of each and this is all just conjecture of course.


If you're an agnostic atheist then your atheism must be a belief.
There's no way for me to tell if god is real or not, but I believe he isn't.
Why are we so scared of having similarities to the thinking processes of other human beings?

Is it because we feel that we are above them and any similarities would pull us down to their level?
I think that if atheists were more humble, we'd have twice as many in our ranks by now.