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[Nitefly]

One stance is asserting there is no god, one is rejecting another's assertion there is - they are actually very difference things.

Aren't both of those necessarily underpinned by the belief that there is no god?

I don't know how you could reject an assertion that there is a god without believing there isn't, unless you are an agnostic, which isn't an athiest and you wouldn't really be rejecting it anyway.