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conclusion
[kuhn-kloo-zhuhn]   Origin
con·clu·sion
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noun
1.
the end or close; final part.
2.
the last main division of a discourse, usually containing a summing up of the points and a statement of opinion or decisions reached.
3.
a result, issue, or outcome; settlement or arrangement: The restitution payment was one of the conclusions of the negotiations.
4.
final decision: The judge has reached his conclusion.
5.
a reasoned deduction or inference.

Conclusions are not beliefs, Deviant. An atheist lacks a belief in gods. What you're trying to say is that an amputee has some form of an arm when he or she has no arm.

And the first definition is patently incorrect. There are no doctrines of atheism. There are books about atheism, but not HOW to be an atheist, but more about why there are certainly no gods in anyway that humanity has ever conceived of gods. To put it further to the point that atheism has no doctrine, many atheists have come to the conclusion of atheism or returned to the natural intellectual default position through many different ways. Some apostates of religion and belief in gods have done so through surviving abuse, learning about evolution, experiencing atrocities in the real world, or even raised in a non-religious household. There is no "how-to" guide to being an atheist. Atheists have no doctrines because a doctrine would spell out a path to atheism and there is no path. There is no "way of the atheist".

Deviant. Religion has to be LEARNED. You're not born with beliefs in gods and a lack of belief is not the same as actively disbelieving. What one can conclude about the state of atheism from an empirical standpoint is that it is a default position which can be altered by our naturally dualistic minds.