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Lets see. Belief and disbelief.
be·lief [bih-leef]
–noun
1. something believed; an opinion or conviction: a belief that the earth is flat.
2. confidence in the truth or existence of something not immediately susceptible to rigorous proof: a statement unworthy of belief.
3. confidence; faith; trust: a child's belief in his parents.
4. a religious tenet or tenets; religious creed or faith: the Christian belief.
dis·be·lief [dis-bi-leef]
–noun
1. the inability or refusal to believe or to accept something as true.
2. amazement; astonishment: We stared at the Taj Mahal in disbelief.
Nothing in these definitions make the one you quoted mean that the possibility of an existing deity must be denied for the conditions of atheism to be fulfilled.
Care to elaborate?
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