Why do Athiests say they have no belief?

Question

If u don't believe in GOD, then don't you BELEIVE he doesnt exist?

Answer 1

Yes, you are correct, but it is a semantic game being played by both parties.

If atheists are non-believers, and unbelievers, as so many Christians claim, then their beliefs aren't beliefs, according to these Christians, who then claim atheism is a belief.

Christians (and other monotheists). Atheists.
Bah. Humbug.

Edit: You have the same degree of certainty the other is wrong (for the most part, some of you have gotten over it.) and you both expect to sway the other with no evidence, when few people believe anything because of "no evidence." In otherwords, you want to sway people who believe in reasons that are often not externally valid (but are as internally valid as love or a preferance for coffee without cream or sugar) without providing evidence that is externally valid.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proofs.

Answer 2

Lacking a belief is not the same as believing something is lacking.

And atheists generally don't say they have no beliefs. They just have no beliefs in the existence of any gods. It's usually the Christians and other religious people who portray atheists as having no beliefs, because they equate not having a belief in their superstition as not having a belief in anything. That's why religious people like to ask, "Well, you MUST believe in something, don't you?" or claim, "If you don't believe in God, you just make something else your god.". Both are from false premises.

I happen to believe in many things. For example, I believe I'm typing this right now. My beliefs, however, tend to have evidence to back them up. I won't claim that I have no baseless beliefs, but unlike Christians and other religious people, I not proud of believing things for no reason. I tend to try to minimize that.

Answer 3

Not all atheists make a positive claim on god's inexistance. Some merely say that they don't believe in god through not having a belief. Everything is not binary, it's possible to not believe in without actively disbelieving in.

Answer 4

I do not believe that God exists. You do not need to have a God to have a belief system. Many Atheists have beliefs, it is just that they are not of a religious nature.

Answer 5

Have you tried to answer the converse of your question? How come the only way that Theists can prove that there is a God is they say things like "Just look around you!" Or "because it says so in the bible." The bible also says that when the sun sets, it hurries to the other side of the Earth (Ecclesiastes 1:5)

Answer 6

No

Not believing in something is not the same as having a belief that it doesn't exist.

Answer 7

Atheism is to disbelieve god(s). The best way to explain it is with an analogy to Asexuality. Asexuals are people that are not sexually attracted to either sex, but this does not mean that they are sexually attracted to nothing. Do you think they buy books with blank pages to arrouse themselves? Of course not. Therefore, the same way that an Asexual is NOT attracted to nothing, the Atheist does NOT Believe there is no god.

Answer 8

I don't believe in the all male god that christians fawn over, to them, that makes me an Atheist. That puts Jesus in the Atheist catagory, as He didn't believe in the god that the Jews fawned over.

Answer 9

Atheists don't say they have no belief.

Doesn't the fact that you have to lie so much to defend your beliefs tell you something about the quality of those beliefs? It should.

Answer 10

If you really want to know that answer read a good book on atheism.

The best and most comprehensive answer to that question can be found in a book by Richard Dawkins called "God Delusion"