Are you agnostic about Santa as well?

Welcome to the asylum. Enjoy your stay.

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.

"Why is it that everyone thinks that agnosticism and atheism are the same thing?"

No, everyone does not think that, or say that.

"I need more information to have an opinion."

No, you have already expressed an opinion. What you mean is you need more information to make a definitive statement that there is no God.

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.

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 ?.