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[quote=Anonymous]OP! Listen to me. First of all, belief is not a choice! You cannot choose to believe or not to believe in something. You are either convinced of something or you are not. Nobody who is an atheist ever thought "lalala I think I'll stop believing in God today". I've read through the whole thread and I am sorry to tell you, you are a closeted atheist. And that's ok! You would be SHOCKED at how many closeted atheists there are in the world, and especially at church. You don't have to stop going to church, you don't have to stop the rituals, you can continue to go to confession and all of that if it makes you feel better. There is no "acting on atheism" that you seem to be so worried about. Atheism is the lack of a belief in a deity. Period.

Second, agnostism and atheism are not mutually exclusive. Gnostism is about knowledge, theism is about belief. So technically, everybody in the world is an agnostic, because nobody "knows". So, you can be an agnostic theist or an agnostic atheist. And most importantly, saying you are an atheist does not mean you are proclaiming that there is no god, that is a very common misconception. Atheism means you reject the claim that there is a god, NOT accepting the claim that there is no god. See the difference?

From reading your posts, you lack a belief in god. That makes you, at the very least, "atheist-curious".

I recommend checking out a show called The Atheist Experience on youtube, it will answer a lot of questions you might have.

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