hatefulatheist asked: First off, you tried way too hard to sound intelligent, and second off, you're wrong, Atheism is to deny the existence of any and all Gods. Not just a particular one.

Hmm? I agree that atheism is to do with all deities. My point was that it’s a lack of belief in any deity or deities, which is slightly different to a point blank denial of the existence of a deity or deities unless you are defining it extremely strictly. Definitionally the non-proscriptive is typically the one used - at least in an academic sense - and many, maybe even most, atheists will tell you that atheism is not proscriptive in the sense you have to believe a particular thing.

Personally, I do lean very closely to the belief there are no deities (no evidence, Occam’s razor and all that) but I know atheists who don’t - they lack belief in deities but they don’t care enough to think about what they do believe, for example.

As to whether you think I try to hard to sound intelligent, that’s irrelevant, but I get that occasionally from people who don’t know me. I should be more concise but it’s just the way I express myself. It’s not an attempt to sound anything.

Gah, I’d have preferred to send a PM but I don’t know how to do that! *sigh*