[Serious] Atheist Dogma

[Belacqua]

Do you want to argue that people are non-religious in the same way that they aren't basketballs?

I think that thinking adults have heard and decided not to accept religious claims based on reasons. 

Do you think that you have heard and decided not to accept religious claims for no reasons at all?

Me personally yes, but had I not heard the claims, not accepting the claims is the only position I could be in, for no other reason than I haven't heard the claims.

Right. A person, like a baby, who has not heard the claims is trivially atheist. 

I'm talking about adults who are not brain dead, who have grown up in any human society that has existed on the planet in the last two millennia or so. All of these people have heard religious claims. 

If such a person finds the claims of religious people unpersuasive, then he is an atheist in the adult, non-trivial sense.