Are you agnostic about Santa as well?

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Not "everyone" thinks atheism and agnosticism are the same thing.
I am an atheist. I do not believe in ANY gods, let alone just one.
IF credible, verifiable evidence is ever shown to prove the existence of any god, I'll rethink my position.

Until such time, I will continue to believe that ALL gods are myths, ALL religion is evil, and religious faith is a deliberate mental illness.

I am defintely an Atheist, there is absolutely no evidence for any gods including the Biblical one and in fact when you read the Bible and see all of the things about our world and universe that were supposed to be fact, that we know now are scientifically impossible it makes me wonder why anyone believes in any of it.

I'm an athiest.

There is outstanding clear evidence disproving any religious explanation that I have been presented.

There are reasonable explanations for all the things they try to explain backed up by evidence from multiple sources.

There is historical evidence of when and how these stories came to be and psychology and power dynamics of humans explain why.

I am an atheist because despite the fact that I have no way of knowing 100% that there aren't any gods, I am 99.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% sure there aren't based on all available evidence (which is equal to jack shit that supports such a ridiculous concept). That .0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of doubt isn't nearly enough to make me ride a fence for the rest of my entire life.

I was born without god, I was raised without god and I see no reason to even cogitate the existence of a god.
Therefore, I am an atheist.

I’ve said this many times but I don’t mind repeating it for anyone who seems non hostile: I’m an agnostic atheist. The two terms aren’t mutually exclusive. They answer two different questions. Agnostic describes what I know, and atheist describes what I believe. Everyone in the world is an agnostic, meaning without knowledge, if they’re being honest with themselves. But unless there’s a form of theism you think more likely than the rest that you’re holding out hope for, you are also an atheist, meaning without theism. If you wish to not be an atheist you’ve got to pick a form of theism to believe in.

I’m not sure why everyone thinks atheist is a claim of absolute knowledge. I can say I have absolute knowledge that the gods described by man so far are logically inconsistent and impossible, but that doesn’t mean I claim to know everything period. We could be the result of alien cross breeding, or an ancestor simulation for all I know. But I know there’s no god as humans have conceived him so far.

I am an anti-theist. Religion has always been the most destructive force that humankind has devised. It will be the death knell of our species.

I also belong to a group called the Brights (noun). [the-brights.net] This groups touts a natural world (universe) view. Gods do not exist because they work with supernaturalism. The universe does not operate by magic. There are laws and forces that control everything. There is no immortality because even the universe is mortal and we cannot outlive the universe. It only takes a bit of open-mindedness and thought to see the fallacies of religion and gods.

Atheist and anti-theist.

"What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."

I'm agnostic. I question everything. I don't believe there is a god, and if there is a higher power, it's beyond our comprehension. I'm open to the mystery of life and not having to have the answers.

I'm Agnostic. I don't think a higher being is knowable just because some men wrote books about it.

I'm an agnostic atheist. This is because if I tell you with 100 percent certainty that there are no gods it is up to me to produce the evidence. I have none, but you can call yourself whatever you like.

I don't like labels, all I know is that I don't believe in gods, religions, and all the assorted bullshit that the god makers and religion makers made up. Just common sense and logic I guess.

congratulations. i happen to be an atheist. you ask why everyone thinks agnosticism and atheism are the same thing but no one can answer that because it most certainly is not true that everyone thinks they're the same. you may as well ask why all women eat asparagus. it's not a valid premise. maybe you met someone who thinks they're the same. that doesn't mean everyone does.

i am an atheist because i don't need proof that there are no gods, and i have enough information to reject the idea of a god, which is as ridiculous as the idea of a tooth fairy or a leprechaun or a magic wand or a talking horse named mr. ed, as amusing as some of those things may be. if i am an agnostic about one i should be agnostic about all of them and more, and if i was interested enough, i would be exhausted searching for more information. there is just as much evidence of a god (or two or three) as there is of those other entities: none. if i am uncertain about god(s) then you can make up any old thing and i have to be uncertain about it instead of using my common sense and my education. i cannot be an agnostic by your description of it. some can. obviously you can. i cannot.

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They are not "the same thing". But they are two sides of the same coin. Agnosticism is the knowledge position, atheism the belief position.

Agnosticism is not merely being unsure -- as if some day, somehow, you might become sure. It is the contention that there is no way to stake a knowledge claim concerning god's existence, as it's inherently impossible given the standard-issue interventionist supernatural deity. There will never be a day where a material being can determine the truth or falsity of an assertion about immaterial things.

I have stated it here at least once: I like to say I am a philosophical agnostic yet practical atheist.

As there is no scientific evidence of higher powers I’m 99.9% certain there there are no higher powers. Does that .1% make me agnostic instead of atheist?

Interesting question. I see God as something separate from religion. That makes me free to weave my own philosophy. Religion grew out of fear and is man-made and consequently, a great tool for those who wish to manipulate society for their own small, selfish ends. So I am an Agnostic. The evidence I notice is All That Is.

I am an atheist because I believe there is no God.

I consider myself Agnostic. I don't really believe there is a God, but I don't feel like I can prove that there isn't. Either way, I think the Bible is a work of fiction created by man.

Atheist without question.

I struggle with this on a daily basis. I don’t know what I am, I have energy, and when I die that energy will go into or be absorbed by something else and the vessel where it was once stored will be gone. But I also know that when I lie on the ground in the sunshine or the rain, my body absorbs more energy, when I garden it’s barefoot and gloveless and I feel the energy and life from the earth. The universe is vast. It, in of itself, is master as we’ve no control over it....what it does controls us....so who is to say? The universe is a growing living thing....maybe it’s god, I don’t know. I do know that I connect to something so I consider myself, for lack of a better word, spiritual.

I am atheist. I did my homework and discovered that there is NO good argument for the existence of gods in reality. They are all mythological. I spent years evaluating every book and pamphlet on apologetics that I could get my hands on. None of them has any convincing facts, reasoning, or evidence.

Sure, it is possible that there is a more convincing book that I have not yet seen, but I think it improbable. Many religious people did their best to convince me, and they all failed.

So what makes you think there may be a god or gods . Because primitive man created them when trying to understand a confusing world ?. Or that this god spoke to a few select people in an obscure middle eastern tribe ?.

From Huxley himself :

"Agnosticism is not a creed but a method, the essence of which lies in the vigorous application of a single principle ...Positively the principle may be expressed as in matters of intellect, do not pretend conclusions are certain that are not demonstrated or demonstrable."
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"I further say that Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it expresses absolute faith in the validity of a principle, which is as much ethical as intellectual. This principle may be stated in various ways, but they all amount to this: that it is wrong for a man to say he is certain of the objective truth of a proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty. That is what agnosticism asserts and, in my opinion, is all that is essential to agnosticism."
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"The one thing in which most of these good people were agreed was the one thing in which I differed from them. They were quite sure they had attained a certain "gnosis" - had, more or less successfully, solved the problem of existence; while I was quite sure I had not, and had a pretty strong conviction that the problem was insoluble.
So I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of "agnostic." It came into my head as suggestively antithetic to the "gnostic" of Church history, who professed to know so much about the very things of which I was ignorant."
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"I neither affirm nor deny the immortality of man. I see no reason for believing it, but, on the other hand, I have no means of disproving it. I have no a priori objections to the doctrine. No man who has to deal daily and hourly with nature can trouble himself about a priori difficulties. Give me such evidence as would justify me in believing in anything else, and I will believe that. Why should I not? It is not half so wonderful as the conservation of force or the indestructibility of matter..."