Atheism and Hope

[robvalue]

I'm very glad to hear you are still with us

One of the reasons I won't have children is that I don't want to create a child which will very likely have at least one of the serious health problems I have. I think it's a very unselfish and reasonable decision to come to, and I wish more people would do it. I couldn't bear the idea of my child going through half of what I have. There are plenty of other reasons I wouldn't have one either, but I wanted to agree with you that although some people have a "fuck it, I want a baby" attitude, putting as much thought as you have into it is admirable.

As for semantics, you seem to be using just different definitions to the general atheist community. What you call agnosticism we would call agnostic atheism; what you call atheism we would call strong atheism, which can still be agnostic; or gnostic atheism if knowledge is being claimed (this is relatively rare). I have much more about this on my website here. But you've no requirement to change your definitions, all that matters is knowing what each person means when they use words.