Athiesm is a Faith?

[pocaracas]

And so far no one has really answered the question just dodged it. Of course those athiests who react strongly to the idea that its a faith already know why its an important point. It means that at some point both theist and athiests reach a point where proofs cant go any further and at that place we are both forced to a choice based on faith in the information we have at our disposal but its a faith non the less and as I've pointed out many times in our history people were conviced they were correct when they were wrong. To call athiest a faith therefore forces the athiest to confront the possability that no matter how improbable it may be but , they might just be wrong.

Ah... I see you missed the "default position" argument.
When you have to choose, you assume something based on what your experience has taught you.
If other people fail to convince you that gods exist, this experience will likely not include god as explanation for anything.... hence, the default position will never be goddidit.
On the other hand, if you become convinced that god exists, you will incorporate that belief into whatever you expect to find and, as history has shown, arrive at wrong conclusions.... fortunately, science has reduced these conclusions to a few, hence the designation god-of-the-gaps.

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Good point pocaracas for the sake of discussion lets assume i'm talking about position 1 then.

Well then, yes. Position 1 is a kind of faith based belief.
However, as you might have noticed by now, it does not describe the majority of atheists. So I would advise you to use this definition with care.