Attention Atheist, can you please do me a favor and listen to me.......

[WestCoastLib]

184. I know where you got your definition

and it wasn't lost on me that you edited it before posting.

"In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Most inclusively, atheism is the absence of belief that any deities exist. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which, in its most general form, is the belief that at least one deity exists."

You chose to edit out "in a narrower sense" and only use the second half of the first sentence of the definition.

But that particular definition is simply wrong. Lack of belief is not belief.

Imagine if you will somebody born alone on an island. That person was never told about a god and has no concept of what the idea even means.

This person lacks a belief in god. It doesn't require him to believe anything at all. There's just nothing there. He doesn't believe "there is no god". He doesn't even think about it.

The absence of belief in god from an Atheist is the same. The only difference is that we have a concept of what god is, because we've been told. However, we haven't been told anything that is realistic enough to warrant putting any more stock in than the lone islander.