Dear Atheists

[Jesster]

Hey Jesster, thanks for clearing that up. My friend was a Atheist (that's what he called himself) and he didn't disbelieve in God because he couldn't prove there certainly was no God but he was an atheist in the sense that he didn't practice believing in God like I do. I guess he was an Agnostic. I just think folks who don't believe lack awareness of God. Or an Atheist can be someone who has no faith in God. Faith means I commit my life to this vision of the world.

Let me clear this up for you more then. You don't have to prove something wrong to not believe in it. You either believe something or you do not. There is no middle ground. If your friend did not disbelieve, then that means that he believes. That would make him theistic, even if he doesn't apply the belief in the same way that you do. That is unless he does not believe and also doesn't know, in which case he would be an agnostic atheist.

Atheism has nothing to do with gnostism or agnostism (at least in the sense of the formal definitions as I stated before). Those words apply to knowledge, while theism and atheism only regard belief.