Is athiesm a belief? What is "God?"

[wfz]

Torillian said:

wfz said:

whatever said:

If there is this all powerful being, where did he come from?

He? You're classifying God as a living being and as all-powerful. I never said God had to be that way. But that's what I'm so confused about, what are the bare-bones basics for qualifying "God?"

Well every religion I can think of the gods are sentient beings and have powers no human possesses so I think that would be the bare bones minimum. 

Okay, but why would you want to limit the idea of God to something like that? I understand that for the sake of discussing modern-day religions, it's important in order to discuss the topic, but then why do Atheists go so far as to discount that God exists in any form whatsoever?

 

Or is Atheism really "We don't believe that any God exists at all like any religions believe, but IT might exist in a different fashion."

But then that sounds more like agnosticism.