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No, the prefix "a" in this case means absence of, as in amoral, without morals, not immoral, bad morals.
The absence of a belief in something does not imply a negation or opposition of that thing. Try it with something you do not have a belief in, or maybe even knowledge of, such as .
It doesn't make a comment on positive or negative as a term, simply on the non existence of god(s). A non existence is not a negative. Any more than the absence of numbers is a negative number.
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