(December 27, 2014 at 3:18 pm)Esquilax Wrote: "Atheism," denotes a lack of theism, not a denial of theism. That's a non-trivial distinction.
Not true.
Like it or not, dictionaries still define the meaning to be "denial of" or "lacking belief in" god/ gods.
An individual atheist can pick either definition and still correctly claim to be atheist.