False perceptions about Atheism and Agnosticism

[Ryantology]

I wouldn’t, but that’s not the point of this thread.

Then make a new thread. I want to see you put your money where your mouth is.

Because there is no default position on such matters because there’s no neutrality. Additionally, we do not determine what ought to be the philosophical default positon on matters by what newborns believe, that’d be absurd.

I asked you to demonstrate the truth of your initial assertion, not fortify it with another assertion you can't demonstrate.

Please try to keep up, the definition I adhere to is the traditionally accepted definition of the term, and is currently still supported by all encyclopedias of philosophy. You’re accepting a revisionist’s definition that no philosophical reference accepts; you use this definition simply because it’s self-serving and you’re too intellectually lazy to do the necessary groundwork in order to support your own position.

Language evolves. The definition of 'atheist' has evolved. You have no standing upon which to discredit the definition I favor, especially since your chosen definition has fallen into common disuse (and that's all that counts).

Not according to all of the appropriate authorities on the matter, but nice try.

Who decides what is appropriate?

Why do you keep pretending that “a” has anything to do with “ism” (belief)? It modifies “the” (from theos), so atheism is every bit as much of a belief as theism because nothing changes in regards to “ism” in either term; so if theism is a belief then so is atheism.

Prove your assertion.

You really believe that the definition of the term “atheist” is solely up to atheists? Ok, how do you know who the atheists are so we can ask them what the term means?

I'm an atheist. You can ask me.