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atheism isn't a lack of belief. Atheists belive that there is no god. Someone who doesn't believe in either or is an agnostic.
An agnostic doesn't believe it's possible to know if god exists. A gnostic thinks it's possible.
Agnosticism is about knowing, atheism about beleiving. So if you don't know if god exists but firmly believe the idea is a load of crap you're an agnostic and an atheist.
For anybody having trouble following…
Nobody knows if God exists. It is not a proven fact.
Some people believe that they know. Some of them really, really believe it.
If you believe something that did not arrive at through hard fact, that is faith. Strong faith is religion.
So what is being said here is that many atheists are in fact quite religious—they just do not believe in God.
A good test is to explain the difference between agnostic and atheist. Anybody that insists on calling themself an atheist after that has is acting on faith ( not fact ) and has religion.
The science, so far, says a god doesn’t exist when measured against the moving goal posts of religion.