Left4Cake

The meme only works by quietly swapping two different propositions. “Atheism” can mean the positive claim “no gods exist”, but in ordinary contemporary usage it also commonly means simply lacking belief in gods. If I say “I’m not convinced your god exists”, I haven’t thereby asserted that I possess a proof that no conceivable god exists. If I go further and claim “there absolutely, positively, verifiably is no God”, then yes, I’ve made a substantive claim and I owe an argument for it. So the cartoon has accidentally discovered the distinction between strong atheism and agnostic atheism, then presented it as some sort of gotcha. Progress, of a kind.