[Serious] Atheist Dogma

[The Architect Of Fate]

I agree with you that atheism defined as lack and only lack is not a good position. I don't think it's possible in an adult human with a functioning brain. 

Then your wrong because hey can 

To insist on this definition, it seems to me, is to deny what is really going on.

Or not 

People have a web of beliefs (=things they hold to be true). This web of beliefs may well exclude the belief that God exists. For thinking people, however, the exclusion is made possible by the other beliefs that they hold. It is a lack, but a lack that is maintained by believing other things. 

No we can hold a web of beliefs that excludes unwarranted claims other people make because they are unwarranted 

So for example, someone hears the claim that God made the world in six days. This is easy to dismiss, because we have many other beliefs about the history of the earth that are better attested. We lack the belief that God made the world in six days, because we have better beliefs. 

No even if we had no better knowledge the claim God made the world in six days is a claim they can't back up so we can reject it on that alone .

We reject the claims of religious people because we have other beliefs that we hold to. These are likely to include beliefs like, "revelation is not a good source of information," or "science works and science is incompatible with God." Things like that. 

We reject it because theists can' back it up .Nothing more nothing less 

I am not talking about the history of how a person becomes an atheist. This is not a temporal process, but a simultaneous web in which we hold our beliefs. The commitment that science is better than revelation on maintains the belief that we can reject the claims of religious people

An atheist could reject science and reject revelation .Atheism has no such commitment