[Serious] Atheist Dogma

[Prof.Lunaphiles]

Atheists will usually claim that they have no dogma - that they do not believe in things that are not supported by valid evidence.
We begin this discussion with the recent argument:

Secular Humanism is simply NOT a religion and you are muddying the waters unnecessarily.

Maybe it would clarify things to be stricter about the word "secular." 

I can guarantee you that it would be extremely beneficial to atheists to get a bit stricter about several words that are significant to the atheists - including the definition of atheism. You have all heard of the relative degrees of atheism, "weak," and "strong," which are absolutely absurd; and only prove that there is a problem with the definition of atheism.

The problem starts with the incorrect definition of "theism" - belief in gods. Atheists unwittingly dispute this definition when they argue that theists have to be indoctrinated to believe in gods. But then they falsify their correction by claiming that a child is born an atheist and has to be indoctrinated, or that atheists have no doctrine or dogma. A person cannot be an atheist, if they are unaware of the theist doctrine. Atheism is not a disbelief, or non-belief, or what ever other convoluted descriptions atheists generate to avoid the correct description that atheism is a doctrine that opposes theist doctrine as the basis for public policy.

Atheism is not the proper opposite of theism. Humanism is the proper opposite.

• Theism is the ontological doctrine that suggests that there is a supernatural dimension of human existence that causes and defines reality.
  Humanism is the ontological doctrine that suggests that humans define reality.
  Atheism is the political doctrine that opposes theist doctrine for the basis of public policy.
  Secularism is the ontological doctrine of no bias.
  Religion is the practice of exercises for the maintenance of dignity.
  

A child is born secular - not atheist.