I'm definitely not an atheist tho.
I find/believe:
- theistic religions and their people are gullible and dangerously irrational (Christians, Jews, Muslims, ...);
- religions openly more philosophical are objectively great (Taoism, Buddhism, ...)
- atheism is mostly being willingly ignorant and closed-minded and feeling superior for it
- scepticism and accepting to not know things is the actually reasonable answer
Simple illustration: the origin of the universe.
The irrationally religious will directly talk about their God.
The irrationally atheist will talk about the Big Bang until you ask "what about before that" and they'll either explode or murder you.
The sceptic or agnostic will accept there was the Big Bang, and that there's possibly something before or more meta that we don't know about (yet).
sceptic or agnostic: I prefer sceptic, as it leaves a place for the (yet). But whatever, both are okay.
@CobaltVelvet there are actually two axes here:
Theist vs. Atheist
Gnostic vs. Agnostic (knowing vs. not knowing)
You can be one of four things, gnostic/agnostic theist, or gnostic/agnostic atheist
Always ignore anyone that purports to be gnostic; it's an impossible and irrational position. A gnostic atheist (one who is certain there is no God) is just as obnoxious as a gnostic theist.
