Atheism is not credible.

Pro: " Hey Cornelius, good to meet you. Hope we can have a good debate on this topic. I see your definition of atheism and hope to get you to see that, atheism is not just about your ideas of gods etc. Those are the ones typical of religious gods, so you must have some sort of belief system in your mind that you follow." Nice to meet you, 'buddy'. Every dictionary out there states that atheism is a disbelief of a god or gods. Especially by the Oxford dictionary. Atheism isn't any idea about Gods, it's just a disbelief in them. Plain and simple. I might have a belief system that I follow but, what does believing in a belief system have to do anything with atheism? Since atheism is just about disbelieving in a god or gods. Not all belief systems require you to believe in Gods or may have a god that you must follow. What does a belief system have to do anything with religion? A belief system can be faith based on a series of beliefs but not formalized into a religion. Also, it is a fixed coherent set of beliefs present in a community or a society. You can be an atheist and follow a religion and their traditions, but not a believer in some things. Well all in honesty, you claim to be a gnostic theist as I've researched of you; only in the Christian religion. You are mostly atheist too, because judging from your strict belief in the Abrahamic Christian god, Yahweh, I can assume you do not believe in the other hundreds of Gods. You are 99% atheist. http://www.oxforddictionaries.com... "You can be your own personal god of course which is in essence the default position, not a good option really, or you can follow another or specific group where you get your ideas etc. So do not think that because you specifically opt out of believing in a deity, you don't follow another belief system, that is your religion of which you or somebody else is the deity. This is not to mean you aren't or can't be a good person, which I'm sure you are, or that you cannot be happy, but your life in return won't have a solid basis for absolute happiness, and you will be easily deceived. When you don't stand on something strong, you can fall down quite easily." I don"t understand the first argument you said. It"s not a default position since we"re all born atheists and we don"t believe gods before we get introduced to them. It"s a man-made thing. So it"s not a default position to believe you"re god. I never once said that disbelieving in any deity means you don"t follow a belief system. most belief systems I"ve seen don"t require a god. That"s redundant, you can stand strong without a belief in God. and here"s an anecdote; I honestly improved a lot after losing my belief in God, as I"ve been introduced to critical thinking and skepticism. I"ve started over-look at life even more and tried to look and examining everything around me with essential and critical thinking. atheism does not always lead to unhappiness, provide evidence why it does. It can though, but I"d rather be unhappy and believe in the truth rather than being happy believing in a lie. I'm sure you've pondered on life's big questions. Who made the world? Why are we here? Who made us? Does life have a purpose? What is that purpose? etc and probably slowly just stopped thinking about it in your mind. Life goes on the same, you're content etc, you don't seem to have to worry about anything. God's not bothering me, I don't need to care, I'm having a good time etc. You're a good person you think. That's ok, but in essence for your life to have meaning you need to ponder on these questions a little more. Not everyday, just when you feel happy to do so. When you take a firm position like you have, you forget to even ask yourself. You are the only one that can answer them, yet you do not face up to them properly. Any day in your life it could be gone, it just may be too late. I certainly hope not, but it can happen. Yes, I have pondered. I've took my time researching, going to the library, looking it up on the internet, taking with people experienced with life, and I'm just 16 years old. Honestly, I'm a big procrastinator, so I typed up half of my argument. this is it, it's just I'm very busy also doing other stuff.