What is an Atheist?

Originally posted by shiloh
An Atheist is one who disputes your assertion that you know there is a God or Gods.

This is just as I suspected, why live contrarian?

Originally posted by kd2acz
This is just as I suspected, why live contrarian?

One disputed assertion makes you contrarian?

Originally posted by SwissGambit
One disputed assertion makes you contrarian?

My suspicion was that atheism was more about being against something (faith, or theism if you will) than being for nothing or believing not in God, this is what I meant. After reading many of the posts in these forums over the past few months I felt that many of interactions between 'atheists' and 'theists' was more like oil and water and antagonistic at times.