Before someone is confronted with the "good news" of "the virgin birth and subsequent human sacrifice of our lord and savior jesus christ",
they presumably "lack any belief in jesus christ" (they are unconvinced).
If they remain UNCONVICED by the "good news" they have not (necessarily) "gained" a "disbelief".
They simply remain UNCONVINCED.
The funny thing here is that it is CHRISTIANS who actively and categorically "disbelieve" in any and all conceivable gods, EVEN gods they've never heard of (with of course one glaring exception).
Many people who call themselves "atheists" are simply (as of yet) UNCONVINCED (specifically of any gods they've currently considered, but not necessarily categorically rejecting all conceivable gods).
Atheism is a very sad and dangerous place to be in .
Atheism is a belief in the way that not eating oatmeal is a breakfast.
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(IFF) we can agree that language only exists to serve as a means of clear communication between humans with as little error and miscommunication as possible (THEN) we can agree that removing and or modifying the definitions of words to make them less logically incoherent serves the core function of language itself
There's your conditional statement.
(IFF) the broad term "theism" is valid and useful to describe a large category of people who believe extremely different things, many of them mutually exclusive and even diametrically opposed (THEN) the broad term "atheism" should be able to accommodate BOTH "lack of belief" AND "active DISbelief" without any problem whatsoever, especially since "lack of belief" does not logically EXCLUDE "active DISbelief" and as such it should be considered the more inclusive (broader) definition and therefore PRIMARY
Feel free to point out any errors you may find.
https://www.debateart.com/debates/3403-atheism-is-simply-a-lack-of-belief?open_tab=comments&comments_page=1&comment_number=161
Atheism is a belief in the way that not eating oatmeal is a breakfast.
lacking a belief in bigfoot
very strongly implies a lack of positive belief (a lack of bigfoot worship, a lack of bigfoot hunting, a lack of membership in clubs that believe in bigfoot)
and does not imply (although it also does not conflict with and or exclude but is in-fact a prerequisite of) a belief that bigfoot certainly does NOT exist