How to discuss religion with believers?

[fredd bear]

Is English not your first language, by any chance?

Perhaps, the sentence s/b:  An atheist believes there aren't any gods.

@snowtracks

Wrong.

SOME atheist believe there is no god. A hard position to take as it carries the burden of proof just as much as any believer claiming there IS a god.

Most atheists I've run across say as I do;  'I don't believe in god(s)'. No claim, no burden of proof.

Atheism is not an homogeneous position. There is no such thing as an atheist's credo. Atheism is not about belief, but its opposite. Consequently, an atheist credo is an oxymoron.

I just love being patronised by dickheads who presume to tell me what I do and do not believe. 

[The Grand Nudger]

For all the time that a certain afflicted subset spends trying to constrain atheism to a single positive claim - they don't seem particularly interested in discussing that claim when they find the odd person who actually does make it.