This is why I say the things I do towards you. Read your next to last sentence again: "I have already rejected that premise, so admit you simply don't believe in god and move on."
Now, read what I posted in this thread hours ago:
"A lack of belief in the existence of something is different than the belief that something doesn't exist. I fit the latter, but not all atheists do, as some fit the former."
In other words, you just spent three paragraphs arguing something that I admitted to hours ago. Christ. Why are reading and following a coherent and logical argument so difficult for some of you?
Now, your claim that my disbelief in a higher power is religious belief is foolish. My view isn't a religious belief since there is no religion behind it - atheism is not a religion.
Who’s the one having trouble here? I stated twice now IN THIS THREAD that being an atheist is not necessarily a religious position. Talk about reading comprehension? You’re as bad as you claim anybody else on here is. That statement is proof.
Also, my comment about admitting you don’t believe in God and moving on was to stress your need to move on from this topic, not that you didn’t admit that you don’t believe in God. And to argue “lack of a belief” as opposed to simply not believing is where you go off the rails. That argument makes no sense whatsoever. You either buy into the premise or you don’t. You either believe or you don’t. This goes for everybody.
The original argument was that being an atheist was a shared belief...which it most certainly is.