If belief in God was merely a philosophical issue, then insistence on defining atheism that way might be correct. However, I think the reason the term has come into its much more widely-accepted meaning is because people who might feel philosophically inclined to not dismiss gods altogether may still live their practical lives as if positive atheism is reality. Practical atheist, philosophical agnostic (even if only barely) describes myself and most atheists I know. As practical matters are of more importance to our lives than philosophical, it makes sense to call one's self an atheist.
I've seen you make many implicitly objective and positive/negative claims about God's nature, behavior, thoughts, and so on. Those indicate either an implicit claim that God exists, which attracts the burden, or speculation of no meaning to anybody but yourself.
fr0d0 Wrote:I've never seen a claim that God exists. Care to point me to one?
(Mine and other theists claim of belief in God of course attracts no burden. So your atheism seems to be groundless)
I've seen you make many implicitly objective and positive/negative claims about God's nature, behavior, thoughts, and so on. Those indicate either an implicit claim that God exists, which attracts the burden, or speculation of no meaning to anybody but yourself.
