Definition of Atheism

[Confused Ape]

This whole conversation seems ultimately useless, because the "lack belief" crowd is wrong anyway. There are good reasons to belive that the proposition "God does not exist" is true. If you don't believe that, you should.

If a Christian, for example, says that atheists have rejected God because we hate him we can just say that atheism is a lack of belief in deities. Anything else can be said in further discussions.

Even people who say they know that deities don't exist still lack belief in them.