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Originally Posted by TGS
No, I don't think so, since the infant may have no belief whatsoever in relation to god. That seems to be different from the case in which someone has contemplated the proposition, "there is a god", and concluded that the proposition is not true. For someone who knows the meaning of the proposition there seem to be only three possibilities in relation to it; it is true, it is false or...don't know. The first would be a theist, the second would be an atheist and I'm not sure what to make of the third, since I expect someone who claimed they did not know would actually behave as though they thought the proposition to be true or to be false.
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I disagree. The atheist does not state it is false, they simply reject the assertion due to lack of evidence. Sure someone who claims "there is definitely no god" is taking a belief position but that is not atheism.
I'm an atheist, I can't state that there is definitely no god. I just accept that it is highly unlikely given the lack of evidence so I reject the assertion and await further input.
As someone probably said; Calling atheism a belief is like calling "not stamp collecting" a hobby.