I'm really sick of people saying that a lack of belief is, in itself, a belief. Hooey. Insulting. Specious. Wrong. Illogical. Semantically backwards. Dishonest. Pointless. Wrong.

I'm afraid you'll have to come up with something else, like something that actually makes any sense whatsoever.

"A lack of belief in God is a belief in the lack of God". This is even more circular than most religious "logic".

Failure to believe in something for which there is no evidence is pretty easy to understand. Calling a belief is beyond understanding, beyond logic.