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Atheists deny or do not believe?

If I am being honest i deny gods. But i think the distinction is largely aesthetic and semantic. I would use the word believe to capture my position towards some far-out and phantasmagorical cosmological hypothesis.

My opinion of god(s) is also based on my understanding of the psychology, anthropology and history of man. Denial is how i react to fabrications that lack evidence and fit the pattern of BS..

My opinion of a physicist’s hypothesis is based on my ability to analyze an abstruse and counterintuitive hypothesis that in its essence has a rational basis. The god fabrication lacks a legit epistemological foundation. Personal gods are infantile.

In the event evidence is adduced that is persuasive i am amenable to a change. It matters not whether i initially disbelieved or denied. In common usage denial is a greater level of disbelief. The physicist may have a many worlds hypothesis that i find highly improbable. The theist has an anti-rational mythology borne of ignorance that i find impossible. The convenience of not having to prove a negative to a theist does not change my position.

That was supposed to be my coffee. But i need the real thing before tackling a mountain.