Reflecting on Atheism.

[pocaracas]

Definitions can't help us in the matter, because anyone can make up any definition. There are no empirical consequences or constraints.

So without a theory, any answer you provide to such questions will be ad hoc and unscientific.

Dictionary definitions are not what you claim.

Lexical definition of a term, also known as the dictionary definition, is the meaning of the term in common usage.
[...]Note that a lexical definition is descriptive, reporting actual usage within speakers of a language, and changes with changing usage of the term, rather than prescriptive, which would be to stick with a version regarded as "correct", regardless of drift in accepted meaning.