Rose, have a think, take your time, how does anyone disbelieve in something that's not there?
I don't mind the misnoma of atheist being used to describe my line of thought but I'm no more an atheist than I'm a non-stamp collector, I'm a non-religious person.
Until someone comes up with some kind of cast iron proof that there are gods in existance, I remain a non-religious person because there is no plausable reason for me to think that there is any such thing as a god in the first place.
I don't disbelieve in the wizard type persons of the Harry Potter kind because there's no reason to think there are real wizards and that would apply to any work of fiction, wizards, gods, unicorns, I don't disbelieve in any of those either.
Does that help, Rose?
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No.
If someone says something exists, and you don't believe it does, then you disbelieve in it.
Lots of people have looked at the evidence and disbelieve in the Loch Ness monster. They disbelieve in it.
Just because it's the word God, doesn't make any difference.
Lots of people have looked at for example, Catholics say and believe and decided they don't believe it, therefore they disbelieve.
Why are you so frightened of admitting you disbelieve in what religions claim?
Many people disbelieve in religion, but admit they don't actually know if something intelligent started the universe, but you can still look at the evidence that we know so far, and conclude you don't believe something did. That's disbelieving.
How can you only disbelieve in things that exist?
It makes no sense.