Atheism worships a dead god.

[Existentialist]

^ Thanks. The issue isn't one of my understanding, though, it's one of terminology. Many thanks to everyone for referring me to Wikipedia articles. I am sure they are a very profound and highly accurate source for mainstream thinking. Given that there is disagreement about the terminology, I am happy to discard the words atheist and agnostic completely. What remains is two categories of people - those who don't believe in God, and those who believe there is no God. Those who don't believe in God give more emphasis to evidence and the logic behind arriving at a position on the existence of God, those who believe there is no God give more emphasis to thinking through the human consequences of the certainty of the non-existence of God and comparing that with the consequences of a position which is less certain. If, in thinking things through, we always have to account for even an infinitesimal possibility that some infinite god or other might pop into existence from behind a lamppost (please don't take me literally), then our thinking will be completely different from our thinking based on the certainty of gods' non-existence, which is why it is important to make the distinction.