Most atheists that I know go with the definition: Without a belief in a god. Just like a baby or a puppy has no belief in a god and is therefore atheist. Babies, puppies and atheists make no claims about gods. Many atheists are also rationalists and many other things and so from a rationalist perspective I would make the claim that there is no god. There are a lot of claims that I make about a lot of things but not from the standpoint of atheism. J.
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