Atheism is a disbelief which is another form of a belief. It is a belief unto itself and does not require any other belief. It simply refutes god for whatever reason or it does not even require a reason at all.
Think everything we want to understand requires logic and reason, otherwise we are just [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]ing into the wind with our imaginations.
Belief is how we run our life. Having faith that our bus will be at the stop,
tht we will still have a job come Monday, that the sun will rise tomorrow.
These are 'True beliefs' but do not always come true as we know.
Then there is something called 'false beliefs'
and I rate Atheism in this category.
False beliefs tend to be mixed in with true beliefs to make them more
plausible. EG. My bus will be at the stop, the sun will rise tomorrow AND
JC might come with rapture and take me under his wing for eternity.
Then this is all reautoprogrammed and rebanked overnight which perpetuates and strengthens the belief as does every religious prayer, hymn, affirmation
etc. which induce deepening of trance. (the trances we live).
It becomes word.
With atheism the same things happen.
If we went for a walk in an atheists mind to the impression memory where
beliefs about this and that are stored, we would find that there would be a file marked 'beliefs about God. Who has not thought about a creator?
To say so would be a lie. If you have an open file with contents you have a belief set in god wether in the positive negative sense or what ever.
To say you have no belief set would be dishonest.
The file is set up in the impression memory, and not the factual files
(since no one has met God in conscious mind language I know of).
This means it is part of a believers/non believers attitude or opinion...
which is their imagination.The imagination is false and will trick us into thinking
we do not have a belief when we do have trillions of bits of information stored.
Skeptics will argue some BS about no belief is somehow a valid argument but
our mind is false and provides whatever view it likes as word to the observer.
But we are not party to the internal muse that underlies this position.
We each have a dual honesty and within limits it is permitted to have it as part
of being human in a complex social world.
As I said few atheists would be stupid enpugh to consider that there was no causasion in the universe or cosmology The causation they internally hold, becomes the creator or God.
Thus a poor discrimination (lack of knowledge) of nature will provide a poor estimation of the creator.