When I told my parents I did not believe in a god they asserted I was "just an agnostic". . At the time I was not aware of the term. When they correctly defined agnostic I firmly asserted, "No. lack a belief in a supernatural sky daddy. I am (not) a theist. Not a theist is an (a)theist." That was many decades ago.

I called myself an Agnostic for a large part of my life. I didn’t believe in god, and thought the Bible was at best a badly written fictional novel, loosely based on ancien Middle Eastern history. But there were things that happened in my life that random just couldn’t seem to explain. I would call it destiny, but destiny would need a controller, which would lead back to a god, which I couldn’t justify as existing. I also considered Atheists to be the “fundamentalists” of non believers, pushing their non belief on others as Evangelicals pushed Christianity. Then I heard about the chaos theory, which explained things that happened that seemed to not be random, without involving a deity to run things. This, a better understanding of what Atheism is and a more militant view of Christian privilege, allowed me to quite proudly call myself an Atheist! ?

It's up to you. If you are ready to take the heat and take stand. Call yourself an atheist. If you are on the fence and can't say with conviction that there are no gods, call yourself agnostic.

There is a diagram somewhere on this site with 4 different types of agnostic and atheist beliefs. That might help you to see that it isn't really a black/white issue. I have no idea how to find it right now but maybe someone else might.

When you not only lack belief in the gods of any particular religions, but actively disbelieve due to the mountain of evidence demonstrating their errancies, contradictions, absurdities, and corrupt origins and perpetuation. Then you can drop the Agnostic tag. If you simply lack belief but don't actively disbelieve yet, that's Agnostic Atheism.

Remember that the difference between a theist, an atheist, and an agnostic is really over one God. The one God theists chose to believe in rejecting all the others. The one God agnostics choose to be agnostic over, the one they grew up with, while being functionally atheist about all the others they neither know nor care about. And finally the atheist who rejects all Gods as there is no evidence, including the one God theists choose to believe and the one God agnostics choose to be agnostic over. See, really just one God separating them. So, go the little extra step and reject that one last God and be an atheist. Your position will then be totally consistent.

I don't worry much about labels, but if you want to be accurate about what you believe and don't want to make a long explanation when asked, choose the word that best describes what you think about how you feel. don't choose the label first. find out how you feel first.

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Just do it and get into reality....

I sometimes call myself a 'broard church' skeptic, because I think that the biggest split do not forget is between belief and none belief, compared with leaving groundless faith behind the other divisions are tiny, and the most important thing have left behind with that faith is dogma.

just today I came across a really nice post that had the term "soul" in it . It was by no stretch of the imagination a religious meme. it was violently ripped apart by an atheist because there is no such thing as a soul. I would say if you are so convinced that you have all the answers of unanswerable questions without having any scientific proof you're an atheist.

All true religious beliefs have to be explored and defined from being 'Atheistic' from the ground floor. So being now in the existential realm you must examine all religious and historical evidence available which will take you into the realms of Philosophy and many reading of ancient authors of renown.
Agnosticism is full blown healthy skepticism that exists in ever religious persons cognitive mind because all documented religions are based upon belief and lack the historical and documented findings or record.
We are not mentioning another Scientific Source of Creation which is becoming more evident as we explore the stars and planets which go way back into history.