I can't understand why non-believers have such a hard time comprehending that their non-belief is very bit as much a religion as any theistic belief. They have a self-righteous zeal on the point that would put many theistic believers to shame.
If only my faith in God could only match the self-confident insistence of an atheist's adamant denial of God. But I am weak, and not nearly so perfect in my faith as even an average atheist is in his.
But I don't think most atheists deny God exists.
A-theist means without theistic belief. Someone can lack theistic belief without actually making any positive claim. I lack a belief in Santa, although I don't make the positive claim that Santa doesn't exist (I would have to be omniscient to do that).
You just don't get it. We're not "denying God" any more than we're denying Zeus - to us, it's silly and irrelevant. There's no self-righteous zeal.