"Atheism isn't a belief"

"The usual way of defending atheism is wrong. The defence is not: 'I don't need a reason to accept atheism, but they need a reason to accept theism.' The deepest explanation is: atheism isn't a belief; it isn't something you accept. Atheism is [simply] the refusal to accept nonsense stories.

"It's not that atheism asserts a negative about the world; rather, it's that atheism is a negative about consciousness---i.e., about accepting something.

"Analogy: you don't need a reason not to buy a given good; you need a reason to buy it.

"The defenders of God and the arbitrary are like salesmen who say, 'You have to prove to me you shouldn't buy this.' "

~ Harry Binswanger from his post 'The burden of proof is on him who claims to know'