"We are not claiming a god can't exist,"
Yes, I am claiming that a god cannot possibly exist.
I am claiming that.
Reality is real.
Fairy tales are fairy tales.

Non-believers are a bigger minority group than Jews, Gays or African-Americans in the USA. If you all united and called yourselves atheists you would be a more powerful pressure group acting toward separating church and state in your country.

btw. that is not your personal opinion but the objective definition of atheism.

TL; DR

Theism means Belief in God. The = God and Ism = Belief.

I identify as a nullifidian, first and foremost--i.e., one who has no faith or religious belief. My first step was to reject all religions and their varied constructs of gods as being wholly man-made, while at the same time rejecting the notion of faith, which is an unreasonable intellectual posture synonymous with credulity and the dismissal of facts. I reasoned that, if there were a god, it would not be necessary to believe in it/her/him without evidence.

Having rejected all religions in general, and faith in particular, I continued for a period of time to search for evidence of a deity. But finding insufficient evidence to prove its existence, I found God 'Not guilty of existing.' In this absence of evidence, a nullifidian may also be an agnostic--without knowledge of a deity. Additionally, with no such knowledge, and lacking the cognitive posture of faith (claiming to know things one cannot possibly know), what then remains to believe in? This nullifidian agnostic is also without theistic belief--i.e., I'm an atheist.

But in the final analysis, what does all this categorization and philosophical taxonomy really accomplish? How many others on this site might likewise self-identify?

You understand words have different meanings and usages. There are different senses to words. If you use "religion " in a biblical context that is about 2000 years old, it is defined biblically as: Religion... pure and faultless is this: to help widows and orphans in need and avoiding worldly corruption. James 1:27. Why call anything else religion?

Faith biblically is used to Express Knowledge, skill(a form of knowledge) and a substance(as in the possession of a thing).

Now you said, "Most atheists due to their study of philosophy & science ..." if you studied philosophy then you might know this from an academic philosophy source, otherwisesome of your definationappear to be different that this source: [plato.stanford.edu]

“Atheism” is typically defined in terms of “theism”. Theism, in turn, is best understood as a proposition—something that is either true or false. It is often defined as “the belief that God exists”, but here “belief” means “something believed”. It refers to the propositional content of belief, not to the attitude or psychological state of believing. This is why it makes sense to say that theism is true or false and to argue for or against theism. If, however, “atheism” is defined in terms of theism and theism is the proposition that God exists and not the psychological condition of believing that there is a God, then it follows that atheism is not the absence of the psychological condition of believing that God exists (more on this below). The “a-” in “atheism” must be understood as negation instead of absence, as “not” instead of “without”. Therefore, in philosophy at least, atheism should be construed as the proposition that God does not exist (or, more broadly, the proposition that there are no gods).

Atheism then being a claim that I do not exist would have a burden of proof to show that claim to be true. Because I exist it is cause for atheism to be illogical.

To all saying it’s too long, I’m not concerned about length, my intention is to communicate my thoughts and help people questioning understand atheism. Sure you can say simply we don’t believe in a god but clearly people within this community don’t understand the difference between atheist and agnostic. If you already understand what I posted, it clearly wasn’t intended for you.

"We are not claiming a god can't exist, only that there is not good evidence in support of one. "

This is a statement that an agnostic would make, not an atheist...

Waaaaaaaaay too long. Brevity is the soul of wit, Shakespeare. I am a non believer in gods or religions and I sympathize, but lost my interest by the second paragraph.

I agree with essentially everything you said BUT (but negates everything that came before it) you left out the part where Atheists do their best to exist outside of religion because we aren't delusional religitards with sky daddy issues. Atheists are a bit like Honey Badgers, except that we just don't give a shit about religion but religion just can't seem to stop itself from giving a shit about Atheists, they want to hug us and squeeze us and if they can't convert us; they want to stone us and drown us and burn us. Atheists still don't give a Honey Badger Shit about Religion.

or:

A religious person makes a claim, "I am 'religion of choice' and I believe in this 'deity of choice.'"

The atheist's response to this is as follows:

"not me."

end of story.

an atheist isn't obligated to ask a religious person anything. i mean, it could happen, but that is not, i think, a typical atheist response. i think most atheists, like everyone else, would rather finish lunch, or ride a bike, or listen to music, or nap, or go shopping, or whatever, than take that kind of bait.

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(In the past, Christians felt the mere existence of atheists or other religionists worked as a repudiation of their beliefs. We now have more active forms of atheism because being atheist is less dangerous to your health.)

Christianity engenders a broad variety of psychological pathologies, paranoia being prominent. The paranoid variety love to make up lies about all those who refuse fealty to white, straight, male dominance.

Among those lies is this: ' Atheists hate God and deny He exists. ' While it may be true that a minority of atheists claim no god exists, most simply don't believe in any of the gods. Again, the common definition of atheists as denying god exists is the definition promulgated by the Christians, not by atheists.

Your profile says you love critical thinking. Please, spend some time critiquing your text, fix the mistakes and be succinct. You lose most of your audience if you just cut and paste a crude mass.

. . . wow, here we go AGAIN, beating a dead horse. Search for the multitude of previous posts on this topics.

Seems a bit long-winded to explain on a forum where many of the members declare an atheist position.

‘Atheism is the most misunderstood viewpoint on the planet’

Do not see how. It is only because some choose not to recognise what the word means.