Atheism stuff

A little about the burden of proof, in this case, the burden of description.

"It's not at all necessary for atheists to define "god" in order to say "I don't believe in any gods." Why? Because we have an abundance of theists who are going around providing their own definitions of "god" for us. Now, if theism didn't exist it would be technically true that everyone would be an atheist, but we wouldn't have a term for it - and anyone who tried to create such a term could be asked to define what this "god" thing is that they are talking about.

That, however, isn't the situation we have today. We aren't faced with a society where no one has heard of "gods" and, hence can't figure out what a "non-god-believer" means by "god." Instead, we are faced with a society where most people believe in at least one god of some sort and most of these believers are quite anxious to tell you all about their god. These, then, are the gods which atheists don't believe in.

In fact, it is arguable that atheists don't believe in all the same gods that theists don't believe in - except that atheists don't make an exception for the one or two gods that the theist does believe in. Now, you won't find anyone going around asking theists to define the gods they don't believe in, will you?"

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