Is atheism a belief?

[bennyboy]

For someone who believes in god, they hold a belief in a deity. For me, that belief isn't there. It's honestly very simple.

Really? You have no stance on whether say the Christian creator God exists? You just happen to lack a positive belief that it does.

I think that's a philosophical cop-out. I don't believe that such a God exists, and I can explain why. In fact, given all the definitions of God I've been presented with, I'd say I'm either gnostic atheist-- I'm quite sure those gods cannot exist-- or as ignostic, in cases where I think the definition is too incoherent to even allow the formation of a belief around it.

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So you're an agnostic atheist. Thanks. You don't hold a belief in god and you don't claim to have knowledge of one. Agnostic atheist.

Meh, you can say that if you want, but my beagle and the thing growing on my ass are agnostic atheists in pretty much the same way. It's not a particularly useful semantic.