Atheism is NOT a belief system. It is a lack of belief in a deity.
Do you believe in Zeus? Apollo? Ra? Allah? Jehovah? Yahweh? Krishna? Thor? Odin? Isis? Osiris?
No? Congratulations, you've reached the age of reason and you are most likely an atheist regardless of labels or names others try to use.
The only reason so many people maintain the stereotype of "atheist = child molesting freak in a trenchcoat exposing themselves on dark streets" (and the subsequent aversion to be associated or named as "atheist"
is that so many people shrink from the label as if the stereotype were true.
I have not believed in "gawd" or gods since I was little more than a child and realized that the stories of Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny bore about as much reality as those of Noah or Abraham or Jeebus.
But, if it makes you happy to deny what your beliefs define you as, then by all means do what you have to do...
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