Steve:

I don't need to ask, as I understand perfectly.

I suppose you can make the word atheist mean whatever you wish, but you have to pay it a little extra. The Greek prefix "a-" means absence or nullification of, as in adiabatic and amoral, asymmetry, atheism, asexual, and acyclic. IF you espouse a-theism, you are asserting the nonexistence, absence, or nullity of one or more gods, not so? If not, please try to explain the distinction you are making.

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