I don't know how many times it has to be explained to people... Atheism makes no claims of the origins of the universe, of life, or anything like that. An A-THEIST is simply someone who is not a theist, someone who does not believe there is any god(s).
Atheist/theist is a matter of belief, agnostic/gnostic is a matter of knowledge. Technically an agnostic is either an agnostic atheist or an agnostic theist. Most of us atheists simply don't feel the need to specify that we're agnostic atheists because we feel that is already obvious. So if someone is saying they're just agnostic than they're not really saying anything at all. You agnostic to what?
Technically no one KNOWS if there is a god or not. But to call an atheist stupid or to claim they have BLIND FAITH for not believing in god is silly. That's like saying it's silly to not believe in unicorns because no one CAN REALLY KNOW. You're right, I don't know FOR SURE if there are unicorns but I'll bet my bottom dollar that there are not any. Just as I'd bet my bottom dollar that there is not god. It doesn't require faith of any sort to lack belief in a god because there is no reason for believing in such a thing in the first place. It is so obvious that the idea of god served a purpose at one point in human history, but simply no longer does any more. We have more advanced ways of understanding the world now, we simply do not need a fictional story for why things are the way they are.
We live in an age where it's okay to say, "Hey, we don't know that yet, but we're working on finding an answer." We live in an age where it's okay to be unsure, because being unsure makes more sense than claiming to have knowledge that you cannot have.
Many people find the comparison of god to unicorns as silly for one reason only. The idea of god has been so ingrained in human culture that it is socially acceptable to believe the myth. It is okay because people have thought that way for so long and unfortunately still do. It is literally part of human history and will remain to be for probably a long time. Soon enough it will be seen as a silly idea that humans believed a long time ago, like the flat earth thing, unless of course evidence for god surfaces at some point, which I highly doubt.
Atheist/theist is a matter of belief, agnostic/gnostic is a matter of knowledge. Technically an agnostic is either an agnostic atheist or an agnostic theist. Most of us atheists simply don't feel the need to specify that we're agnostic atheists because we feel that is already obvious. So if someone is saying they're just agnostic than they're not really saying anything at all. You agnostic to what?
Technically no one KNOWS if there is a god or not. But to call an atheist stupid or to claim they have BLIND FAITH for not believing in god is silly. That's like saying it's silly to not believe in unicorns because no one CAN REALLY KNOW. You're right, I don't know FOR SURE if there are unicorns but I'll bet my bottom dollar that there are not any. Just as I'd bet my bottom dollar that there is not god. It doesn't require faith of any sort to lack belief in a god because there is no reason for believing in such a thing in the first place. It is so obvious that the idea of god served a purpose at one point in human history, but simply no longer does any more. We have more advanced ways of understanding the world now, we simply do not need a fictional story for why things are the way they are.
We live in an age where it's okay to say, "Hey, we don't know that yet, but we're working on finding an answer." We live in an age where it's okay to be unsure, because being unsure makes more sense than claiming to have knowledge that you cannot have.
Many people find the comparison of god to unicorns as silly for one reason only. The idea of god has been so ingrained in human culture that it is socially acceptable to believe the myth. It is okay because people have thought that way for so long and unfortunately still do. It is literally part of human history and will remain to be for probably a long time. Soon enough it will be seen as a silly idea that humans believed a long time ago, like the flat earth thing, unless of course evidence for god surfaces at some point, which I highly doubt.
