Original sentence: , conscious and deliberate), positive rejection and denial of theism; however, others—including most atheistic philosophers and groups—prefer to define atheism as the simple absence of belief in deities (cf.In recent years, some atheists have adopted the terms strong and weak atheism for the former and latter, respectively, to clarify whether they consider their stance one of positive belief or of negative unbelief.nontheism), thereby designating agnostics and people who have never heard of gods, such as newborn children, as atheists as well
Edited sentence: , conscious and deliberate), positive rejection and denial of theism; however a number of dictionaries and encyclopedia specify that atheism also can apply to the simple absence of belief in deities (cf.In recent years, some scholars have adopted the terms strong and weak atheism for the former and latter, respectively, to clarify whether a stance is one of positive belief or of negative unbelief.nontheism), thereby including as atheists both many agnostics and people who have never heard of gods, such as newborn children