Today's Atheists often claim, in order to win the argument, that they "lack belief" in God.

But the truth is that Atheists do not "lack belief" in God: they positively do not believe in Him. (This is shown, not by my telling them what they believe, but by the words of their vigorous and often intelligent [though unwise], defense of their main statement of faith. They certainly, by their words and actions, believe, or try to make themselves believe, that God does *not* exist, though amazingly to those Christians and Theists and Deists who debate them, they will *not* admit to this.

The reason that they will not admit to this is that many atheists today no longer claim, "There is no God." The reason that they no longer do this is that this short statement of faith has been shown to be logically and philosophically indefensible.

The "There is" part of the statement means that they are making a *positive* declaration about something. (which would need to be proven, defended, or claimed as an object of faith, or some combination of all three.) The "no God' part means that they are claiming knowledge essentially of everything, because logically, God could be hiding in the one place that they did not look in order to find Him: the spiritual, non-material, non-physical realm.

Because one belief, or in this case, one "lack of belief," logically creates other beliefs, the statement "I lack belief that God exists," if it is not the identical sentence as, "I do not believe that God exists," or, I believe that God does not exist," or, "I believe that there is no God," they essentially mean, or logically and consequentially mean: exactly the same thing.