(July 8, 2015 at 1:12 am)pool Wrote: All i'm saying is that a person born without the knowing of the concept of a god will not be a Atheist by default.Your last statement is here referred to as "antitheism," not "atheism."
Because to be a Atheist it first takes to know the concepts of theism and then reject the claims proposed by Theism.
But I agree with your first point. If lacking a belief in God makes you atheist, then my beagle is an atheist, as is my big toe. But this is not how the word is normally used-- "-ist" implies a thinking agent that could potentially be atheist but happens not to be. I'd say this is impossible-- you only have the potential to be theist if you are a person AND you have been presented with the God idea. If you have not accepted this idea, then you have rejected this-- and are a "hard" atheist or an anti-theist.
I think people ACTUALLY are anti-theist. They're annoyed by shitty arguments, by social manipulation, by bias in the workplace, etc. It is only philosophically, where you can't prove a negative, that people take the softer position that they "lack a belief in God."