I know that. Which is why the "lack of belief" definition is incoherent.
No it is not. Here, let me help you out a bit:
in·co·her·ent
adjective
adjective: incoherent
1.
(of spoken or written language)
expressed in an incomprehensible or confusing way; unclear.
"he screamed some incoherent threat"
synonyms: unclear, confused, unintelligible, incomprehensible, hard to follow, disjointed, disconnected, disordered, mixed up, garbled, jumbled, scrambled, muddled; More
antonyms: intelligible
(of a person) unable to speak intelligibly.
"I splutter several more times before becoming incoherent"
synonyms: delirious, raving, babbling, hysterical, irrational More
antonyms: lucid
(of an ideology, policy, or system) internally inconsistent; illogical.
"the film is ideologically incoherent"
Rocks do not have the ability to either believe or not believe which is why we don't need a term for their "lack of belief". They don't have a heartbeat yet we don't say that they died, why don't we say that they died? The rock was never alive in the first place. Seriously? This is what you want to continue to argue?
The problem is I don't really think rocks are atheistic. It's just that they express the same exact characteristics of the "lack of belief" definition of atheism. Which is why it is an incoherent definition.
Are you serious? My dick expresses a lot of the same characteristics of a rock when I am fucking yet my dick is not a rock. Do you understand the difference? Holy shit I could have fun with your above statement but it would just be plain unfair to you..... Just way to easy.
Okay, can't resist this one. Unicorns (would have said Bigfoot but there is more evidence of bigfoot) and Jesus express the "exact same characteristics" of "requires blind faith to think they exist" so faith is an incoherent definition. See how that works? Any rational and intelligent person understands the difference, as you do, the question is why are you being purposely obtuse?