Atheists don’t have beliefs, by definition. And they don’t feel the need to “admit it” because they don’t have guilt. I have never met an atheist who expressed guilt about it. Have you?
“Atheists don’t have beliefs, by definition.”
What dictionary have you been reading? They believe there is no God. That counts.
“And they don’t feel the need to ‘admit it’ because they don’t have guilt.”
But they do like to admit it (or, in other words, simply tell it to people), because like everyone else they like to talk about what they believe in.
“I have never met an atheist who expressed guilt about it”
This has nothing, really, to do with the preceeding conversation. I think you read a bit too far into the word “admit.”
“Have you?”
I don’t know. Maybe. Frankly, I haven’t discussed atheism with many atheists. It’s not terribly enlightening. Nor, really, is it fun to talk about faith, qua faith, with the faithful.