Quote Originally Posted by .blank cd View Post
Atheism is simply a lack of belief of a deity. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Agnosticism says, "It is unknown if there are gods". That is a lack of belief, and nothing more.
Atheism states, "There is no God/gods." That's a belief and a specific denial of the existence of God.
Atheism and Agnosticism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

If you do not believe this, take it up with University of North Texas sociologists David A. Williamson and George Yancey, and David Silverman and Dennis Horvitz of the American Atheists, a powerful lobbying group.



you might want to start a different thread for atheism though, as it is off on a tangent for this thread.