Its a tough situation to be in. Especially since agnostic is just part of the atheists spectrum haha. I agree with your ideas though, you will feel better when you come out and be honest, but change happens over time, take it all one day at a time and when it feels right you will express how you feel. all the best
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I disagree that agnostics are part of the atheist spectrum.
Like religions people, atheists believe in something via an act of faith.
Agnostics dont. They are in the exact middle of the wheel of all beliefs (religions and atheists) saying... 'I don't know.'
To be an Atheist, requires faith and commitment of belief to something that can never be proven. Sure, its a belief that 'no, there are no gods'. But belief nonetheless. After all, you cannot prove there is no god, when a god could simply have forgotten earth exists, and never notices.
Thus, atheism has more in common with religion than it does agnosticism.
Yeah I agree 100 percent. I considered myself atheist for a while. But i realized I was having faith that what I couldn't prove was the right way of thinking. Agnostic is the most reasonabke in my opinion.
Thanks for writing a well thought out reply and not trolling me lol. The only worthy conversation is debate, so I am here to debate a few parts of your argument, or at least lay out my disagreement.
I disagree that atheists believe in a lack of gods the same as a religious man believes there are gods. I think arriving at the atheist perspective is a path full of evidence that points clearly to there being no gods. Being agnostic is the stance that since you can't ever know, then why bother pondering it in the first place. Sort like saying that the topic isn't even worth debating. But there is loads of scientific and mathematical evidence pointing to the lack of gods. Read anything by Richard Dawkins and this becomes quite, well... evident haha. Or since reading is a relic now, watch PBS Space Time on YouTube, and view evidence yourself from experts in the field.
An atheist is a person who just has a lower threshold of being convinced by the evidence than an agnostic. While the evidence makes is very very very unlikely any gods exist, an agnostic withholds his final decision because you can't KNOW (like 100%). But since you can't truly know anything, you turn to evidence and likelihoods.
Atheism should not be considered equal but opposite to any belief or faith for those reasons
Cheers
PS- I suppose some might say that there is evidence of gods existing, so this evidence must be weighed against evidence of lack of gods. I argue that there is no scientific evidence for gods to be. This is because evidence of a god existing is non-falsifiable, and therefore not scientific at all.