RebYidd23 ; I’m disappointed to see that you did not understand my comment, let me make it a little clearer for you. For an opinion to mean something one has to be m’inyan to give an opinion. For instance, let’s say someone who is not a physicist is going to give an opinion on quantum mechanics, does this even count as an opinion? Or let’s say a gentile is going to give an opinion to a machlokos haposkim, surely one cannot say that the gentile has such and such an opinion! For the gentile has no yediah whatsoever in these topics to give an opinion!
Now if someone does not know what God means (I don’t mean the simple definition as kids say it, rather I mean the real definition), then he cannot express either belief or disbelief since he doesn’t even know what it means. Thus if an average person professes disbelief in Hashem it means absolutely nothing since he does not even know what it means. He is Neither a theist, atheist, or agnostic, rather he has no opinion. It’s like the gentile giving an opinion on a din Torah. An atheist means someone who has studied theology and has decided against it, not someone who has no clue what he is talking about, that is called a fool….
With this understanding you might be better able to understand what the Chovos Halvavos states in the begining of shar hayichud and the Rambam in his hakdamah to the Moreh.
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