"It is necessary to put briefly the Atheistic position, for no position is more continuously and more persistently misrepresented.

Atheism is _without_ God.

It does not assert _no_ God.

'The Atheist does not say "There is no God," but he says, "I know not what you mean by God; I am without idea of God; the word God is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation.
I do not deny God, because I cannot deny that of which I have no conception, and the conception of which, by its affirmer, is so imperfect that he is unable to define it to me."' (Charles Bradlaugh, "Freethinker's Text-book," p.

118.) The Atheist neither affirms nor denies the possibility of phenomena differing from those recognised by human experience....