Label are a great, "short hand" to help convey a quick identity or position. The problem I have is that a label is a start of discussion not a permanent tag we place on people

I am an agnostic atheist as a side effect of valuing critical thinking and systematically applying it to my experienced life. Like everyone else, I'm a lot of other things too -- husband, father, stepfather, grandfather, contractor, consultant, software architect / developer, system admin when I have to be, and much more. I don't accept labels because of how they make me feel, but because of how they reflect reality. If I don't like how a reflection of reality makes me feel, then I change the reality behind the label. For example if someone calls me "asshole", and I can conclude that's legitimate, then I stop being one.

I don’t use terms like theist, agnostic, or atheist to describe myself, because they are all on the literalist spectrum, and I’m not a literalist. I don’t know if there is a well established word for the opposite of literalist - maybe metaphoricalist, or allegoricalist? Mythologist?

I believe that the early religious writings that gave rise to current world religions were the attempts of scientifically illiterate people to understand and manage the naturally troublesome psychology of large-brained hominids. The phenomena they were describing were real (feelings). The only language they had, at the time, to describe these phenomena was the language of metaphor.

A literal interpretation of these metaphorical descriptions of real psychological phenomena always was and still is an erroneous understanding of the literature. It really was embryonic science.

I’m good with being a Homo sapiens.

I don't feel like I am labeling myself. Religion is damaging to the environment that I wish to live in. So I don't participate in it. It's the bible thumpers that create the label.