Reply #50: I was speaking of positive in a different sense, actually.

[MineralMan]

I do not use positive and negative as words having to do with good and bad.

An atheist may have negative belief in deities, and a lousy world view at the same time. So, you see what I mean, I hope. Not believing in supernatural entities is negative, but does not imply anything else for good or bad. It is simply a negative belief.

One may be an atheist and have a powerfully good world view. Or, as we have all seen, one may be an atheist and have a powerfully pessimistic world view.

I prefer to use positive and negative as logical terms, rather than in other ways. There are better words for those purposes.