catwho, pet mage of Jabober wrote:
You just described an agnostic.
Atheist means you do not believe in god, divinity, the afterlife, anything. Agnosticism is what many people who don't belong to an organized religion profess -- hey, we don't know what's out there, but there may just be something. Either way it doesn't hurt me.
A startling number of non-practicing Christians are actually someplace along the agnostic spectrum. It's more of a passive belief than it is an active one. They don't feel the need to preach the news to anyone, and they're mostly tolerent of other religions as long as nobody is getting hurt. (These days, I consider myself a non-Paulian Christian agnostic. I reject most of the teachings of the Christian church from the Nicean council on as heresy. And Paul was a mysoginistic jerk.)
Hardcore atheists spend most of their time fighting established religion doctrine, which means it is sort of its own anti-belief.
This is misinformation. Atheism that says god, afterlife, mystical things etc. does not exists is hard atheism which is hard to find.
Most atheist today believes that god most probably doesn't exist and there's no objective reason that exists to believe in its existence otherwise. And if fact belief in such mystical things undermines humanity as is proven numerous times in history.
Agnosticism simply states thats god's existence is impossible to prove or disprove. There are agnosticism among atheist and it varies widely.
Atheists do not (or has no reason) to believe in god, divinity, afterlife or anything mystical because belief in something in absence of proof can be dangerous and preconditions oneself to being impressionable.