Atheism is not absence of religion. It's a
dogmatic belief that there is no God.

The word is actually used both ways. This tends to confuse things,
since people respond to the words they hear, not to the ideas that were
not successfully expressed. When I need to be precise, I use the
following three words thus:

Athism: I do believe that there is no God.
Nontheism: I do not believe that there is a God.
Agnosticism: I'm not sure if any of the Gods that are proffered up in
the religions I know of, exist.

Jose
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"Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can't see where
it keeps its brain." (chapter 10 of book 3 - Harry Potter).
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