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Originally Posted by grtwhtgrvty
Yeah I don't like the term atheist either. I'm an atheist in the sense that I believe god is a manmade conceptualization meant to cope with the fear of the unknown. But I also believe that humanity as a whole is very naive and that we really have no idea what any of this mean. I think the idea of death = nothingness forever is equally far fetched. I don't like the the label atheist because of the implications that go with it.
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To be an atheist, you don't have to believe that death = nothingness, or that god absolutely does not exist, you just have to lack a belief in a god. Your average agnostic is also an atheist by definition, since they do not explicitly believe that a god exists.
Wikipedia - Negative and positive atheism
Yeah, I know it's Wikipedia. Shut up.