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Some people have a hard time understanding the lack of something (a•theism = without god-belief) isn't the opposite of it, or another form of it. An empty shoe box isn't a style of shoe, but it also doesn't mean one wears the boxes.
(This really *shouldn't* be hard to grasp for most religious people because it is exactly the same relationship they have with belief in other gods. They don't sit around actively denying Brahma and Amaterasu-Ō-Mi-Kami and the rest; it never occurs to them to believe.)
Making it more difficult is the fact there are angry atheist turds, most of them between the ages of 13 and 20, who want an atheist symbol to wave on a flag, who pick fights with anything vaguely religious, who have substituted Neil DeGrasse-Tyson for Jesus and a dogmatic approach to science for scripture, and generally make the rest of us look like asses. They'd better be described as rabid Scientific-Materialists of some stripe.