Religious people on the reasonable faith forum are so fucking stupid...

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Except I've always lacked a belief in any sort of deity since day 1.

That doesn't really have anything to do with what I said.

It 100% does if you don't subscribe to the notion that lack of belief = disbelief in every case.

Lack of belief and disbelief can go hand in hand. I don't disbelieve in all god claims because there's no way for me to make a value judgement on all god claims that I haven't heard. However, I can reject and soundly disbelieve a claim as it is presented to me.

You might have misunderstood what I said. When I say that "lacking belief" is no different than disbelief, I'm saying they mean the same thing. That is, they both mean "do not believe".
God claims you haven't heard aren't really a problem. You have no reason to believe them; that is a reason not to believe them.

And even then, the idea that when presented with a claim one must chose 'either, or' is a silly assumption that needs to be challenged.

One does choose to believe or not to believe. What is important is one's reasons for what you do believe.

Those are fair points, and I'm too tired to go over and over this definition of atheism debate which always raises its fucking head every time and has been done to death.

Needless to say, I follow qualiasoup's demolishing of the notion that one must choose 'either or' when presented with a positive claim. I can't really be bothered (nor am I am able) to present the argument to the same concise format that he does.