that is more or less how i see it. i have to admit i am not horribly concerned with labels, though they can be quite useful at times. i choose atheist, rather than agnostic, because to me (not saying it has to seem this way to anyone else) agnostic seems too much on the fence. i really don't see a "maybe" about it; i am not wondering whether there's a god any more than i am wondering whether i am going to grow an eleventh finger. it seems neither likely nor even possible, nor even worth wasting my time over. that being said i do enjoy talking to people who also hold no gods, for whatever reason and to whatever degree, if only for the relief (well, most of the time!) from being constantly blessed and condemned and told i'm going to be prayed for, or going to hell, or cannot be a good person, or am doing damage of some kind to someone's sensitive deity, or.... well, you know. i suspect that is at least part of why we're here. i'm not here to reaffirm my lack of belief or get support for it or anything like that. i've been an atheist since i was 15, and that was a loooooong time ago. oh, and i wander a bit. did i mention i wander a bit? i wander a bit!

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It is true that atheism is not an affirmative belief that there is no god (or more accurately, are no gods).

It does not so much reject the assertion that there are gods so much as it considers the question of gods existing to be a non sequitur in the first place. One must ask useful and valid questions before one can critique the answers.

This is not a question so it is hard to know what response you are trying to elicit.