"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."

[Jumpin]

Atheism as "lacking belief in God" is an incredibly poor definition due to its broad/wishy-washy nature; it's fairly useless when defined like that. As Neil Degrasse Tyson put it, you don't define someone as an "aGolfer" because they don't golf. In addition, one who lacks belief in God or gods could be a deist agnostic rather than an atheist; since agnostics don't deny the existence of God or Gods, but they don't believe in them either.

The most broadly accepted definition of Atheist is "One who denies the existence of God or gods."

This is a useful definition, it is precise, and there isn't confusion about conflating its meaning with anything else.

Last edited by Jumpin - on 27 December 2017