Reply #21: Let's ask the American Atheists Organization

[Speck Tater]

From American Atheists Website: http://www.atheists.org/atheism

What Is Atheism?

Atheism is the lack of belief in a deity, which implies that nothing exists but natural phenomena (matter), that thought is a property or function of matter, and that death irreversibly and totally terminates individual organic units. This definition means that there are no forces, phenomena, or entities which exist outside of or apart from physical nature, or which transcend nature, or are “super” natural, nor can there be.
(Emphasis mine)

In other words, a belief that NO god or gods exist.

AGNOSTICISM:
THE BASIS FOR ATHEISM,
NOT AN ALTERNATIVE TO IT

By David Eller

This general issue was raised in these pages by Tony Pasquarello, who distinguished between Atheism and what he called Natheism (as if we need another neologism!), the former being the good old dictionary-definition version of belief that there is no such thing as god(s) and the latter being a "new" position of rejecting belief without rejecting god(s). <1> This second position, which is sometimes called "weak" or "negative" Atheism, I also find incoherent, as I have argued in a previous article. <2> What could it possibly mean to say that I don't believe in X but I am not maintaining there is no X? That is why I concluded that all Atheism is positive Atheism - we do not believe in X because we maintain there is no X.
(Emphasis mine)
http://www.atheists.org/Agnosticism%3A_The_Basis_for_Atheism

If you disagree don't argue with me. I'm just the messenger. Go over to http://www.atheists.org/ and argue the point with THEM.