@Frank Apisa,
I think you've made a rod for your own back here Frank.
I get you don't do beliefs, I get your god gods mantra, and I'm more than happy for you to call yourself whatever you want. I'm not going to call you a so and so type of atheist or whatever.
I get all that, I no problems with any of it.
What I don't get is your foray away from religious belief to one of language definition. Belief, believes have more than one meaning and your bizarre obsession with the word makes you sound a bit tounched.
When you are asked if you believe what a politician said, you're not being asked anything remotely religious or spiritual.
That being the case it makes sense to use it, I do/don't believe Joe Biden when he said.....
Instead of using a believe you work your way around it, come up witn aphrase in place of a word.
It's not rational, and it allows a muppet like anointed to take the piss.