That's basically what I had thought (I'm the grandparent poster), and I had included a definition in my post to try and make it clear what I meant.
As a sibling post pointed out
> This only applies to gnostic atheism. An agnostic atheist like me admits to not knowing if $DEITY exists but does not believe in the absence of compelling evidence.
So it seems like there are different flavors of atheist.
But you can also see the other person that answered my post with a rant about how god doesn't exist and science won. This vocal kind of atheist is what I was calling "religious"
As a sibling post pointed out
> This only applies to gnostic atheism. An agnostic atheist like me admits to not knowing if $DEITY exists but does not believe in the absence of compelling evidence.
So it seems like there are different flavors of atheist.
But you can also see the other person that answered my post with a rant about how god doesn't exist and science won. This vocal kind of atheist is what I was calling "religious"