Are you an Atheist?
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To all those posters who perhaps have been brought up in a semi/psuedo religious atmosphere, maybe attending church as kid, but getting older and realising it cant all have been true so declare "I am agnostic - I dont really believe either way"...
YOU ARE AN ATHEIST...
You are not declaring yourself a theist, therefore you 'are' (general sematics aside), an A-theist.
Being an atheist does not mean you entirely believe in the scientific account of creation, although if you studied in depth you would, it just means you do not accept the idea of an invisible imaginary 'character' controlling the world to a lesser or greater extent, according to some 'divine wisdom', which may or may not include manipulation of genetic code, spontaneous specialized organ creation, burning bushes, laws about stoning people, not healing kids with cancer, natural disasters and cosmology.
When incredible and awesome things happen, a theist will say 'look at the splendour and power of The Lord God Almighty' (beware - when they capitalise words it means they will not talk logically about these things, maybe extending this to whole run-on phrases such as JesusChristOurSaviorLordAndMaste...
and when kids get cancer, burned in fires, run over, murdered by paedophiles, they either say God didnt do it, and it was part of some hokey 'free will' mechanism He has implemented that allowed this to happen and that somehow it's 'our' fault, rather than His (Him being all powerful and all good, somewhat contradictarily)..
If you do NOT believe in such a set up, you are an ATHEIST, no matter what, if any other explaination you may or may not have.
It would be great if religion were true - it would be far simpler than the complex and difficult ideas that we have to extract from life otherwise, but it just depends how important truth is to you.