you mean atheism as a positive stance or atheism as in "religion is nothing to do with me."
Actually, I don't think I'm in either camp. It's next to impossible to avoid religion having at least some influence on one at some stage, so I'm not in the latter. As for atheism being a stance, I don't see it that way. It's simply that God is a notion for which I think there is no credibility. If I have a stance at all, it's all about simply asking anyone who declares their belief to produce evidence. Not witness, hearsay, visions, tradition or the fact that billions of people happen to share the same delusion. Real evidence. Without evidence, God has just got to be a delusion as default until someone comes along with the evidence. If a shrug is a stance, so be it.