Newme wrote:Atheism - or really, most herd mentalities that can be labeled - are illogical. To even suggest you don’t believe in something that hasn’t even been properly defined, is illogical. To go by that group’s belief package also doesn’t make sense.
Then, there’s the huge strawman which Atheism is based on - picking the easiest definitions of God to refute, while ignoring more difficult ones, like “God is truth.” If God is truth, how or why would any logical person deny that? The Bible lists +800 ideas of God. Taoism, Islam & other religions suggest God/Allah/The Way - cannot be described in words.
If someone asks me "do you believe that X exists?", if I think I already have a reasonably good idea of what they mean by X, I'll tell them whether I believe that. If not, I'll ask them what they mean by it, and then tell them. I won't suspend [dis]belief just in case there might be some other meaning that someone else uses.
For some reason when the word "belief" is used in the context of God it often seems to get associated with all kinds of other words like "certain", "deny", "reject" and so on. So the statement "I do not believe in God" often gets parsed as "I reject God" or "I am certain that there is no God" or "I deny God" or some such thing.
Also, people who say things like "I don't believe in God" are sometimes told that, in saying that, they're following a herd. They're rarely told that if they say something like "I don't believe it's Friday today". If you were brought up in an environment in which God and religion didn't really feature one way or another, and if you're then introduced to the idea and if you state that the idea, as it's been introduced to you, seems improbable, it's strange to be told that, in saying that, you're following a herd.