Are cats atheists?

[Mystic]

Because there is not evidence for X, it doesn't necessarily follow that one should disbelieve X. Only if there is another premise in the argument like, "there is no evidence for X, and if X were true, we would expect more evidence than there is for X." However, this is not just an absence of evidence then. There is a claim here.

I agree, but Atheists will disagree. In case of God and properly basic knowledge of him, although there is no rational argument to go against it, they feel no such knowledge exists given their own experience and their view of knowledge.

Just because they do not believe based on some argument doesn't mean they do so irrationally or ignorantly.

True enough from my perspective, not necessarily an Atheists perspective depending on how he sees possible knowledge, but it doesn't help the case with Theists when along with that belief comes a belief of something that is certainly not properly basic (religion) and that is unsupported by evidence.

So it looks like "God" is just part of the equation "religion".

You can't really blame Atheists for thinking the belief in God is no different then belief in religion, which to many of them, has been proven to be baseless.