User blog comment:Uknownada/Do the Bellamy Pirates represent atheists?/@comment-4493594-20120117142343

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I think this goes beyond the comparison to atheism. Atheism means not believing in the existence of god, or anything supernatural if you go with the general linguistic usage. (-theism is always something about the believe in a deity. Strictly taken, Buddhism is an atheistic religion. But in modern speech the meaning of atheism is extended to everything that cannot be explained or proven.)

What Bellamy made fun about was not just the existence of Sky Island itself, it was the act of "believing" and "dreaming". So I'd say they are pragmatists rather than atheists.