If I were an Atheist

[Fidel_Castronaut]

This isn't a competition, drew. Demographics of religion and atheism differ wildly depending on the part of the world you're looking at or indeed the state.

Are 50% of the English and Welsh population thus insiginifcant? Are large swathes of Northern America, Northern and western euorpe? Not even counting places like China?

I think your sample is in error, don't you? These entire debates on atheism vs theism always gloss over the fact that the overwhelming vast majority of other theists would see the religions of other theists die and their followers either converted or burned. So homogenising them is always very odd.

But regardless, as rhythm posits, it's a non-issue. What is an issue is your comments about rejection and non/lack of-belief. I can still firmly reject every god hypothesis that's ever been put to me and be an agnostic atheist towards the general concept of a deity.

The christian God for example, and the tens of thousands of varieties of it, are easily rejected as self-refuting. But I can't say the same for every god hypothesis because I haven't heard them all, or seen the evidence.