The real problem here is that Belaqua has chosen to believe what the thoughts, reasoning and motivations of all atheists actually are. Having made that choice (extracted from fundament) he/she feels justified in dictating what you, I, anyone of us. all of us really think. So committed to this choice is Belaqua that he/she cannot see beyond that choice. This is simply another reframing of the claim "It takes more faith to be an atheist".
It is also a common trope among the religious that it simply is not possible to NOT believe in something. They don't understand it. They can't.
It is also a common claim of the presuppositionalists, that we all actually believe in god but as atheists are in denial about that "fact".
Belaqua is simply trying to extract an admission that atheists "believe" things as a means to shoehorn in religion into atheism.
It is also a common trope among the religious that it simply is not possible to NOT believe in something. They don't understand it. They can't.
It is also a common claim of the presuppositionalists, that we all actually believe in god but as atheists are in denial about that "fact".
Belaqua is simply trying to extract an admission that atheists "believe" things as a means to shoehorn in religion into atheism.
