I don't drink tea.

I'm an atheaist

That's the neat part - you don't have to explain anything. You just assert the truthfulness of your religion and act offended when people point out how ridiculous it is.

Just show them the graph. Can't argue with hard data.

i prefer "i'm not superstitious", because that's what all religions are

So how will you teach little girls that they're the problem? How will you fondle little boys? How will you comitt a genocide to prove that your religion is more moral?

Ramen

That’s atheism?

Atheist and agnostic are not synonyms.

Splitter!

One of the core tenants of Pastafarianism is being too lazy or broke (or both) to actually contribute

I was an agnostic for a very long time.

My main view of things - I couldn't know if there was a god or if there wasn't. But all that ultimate judgement shit never made any sense for me. If you're just behaving decently because of fear of ultimate judgment, then you're not a decent person. Ok if god would want me not to be an asshole, I'd need to be that out of my free will. And if a god demanded adherence to some random rules out of the blue - that god wouldn't have a moral compass and I wouldn't want to have to do anything with them in my life, being smitten down at the end would have been a consequence for me anyways.

I just want to be no asshole. So the question of there's a god or not. I don't care. God is irrelevant.

Thus: agnostic

I started staying I'm an atheist somw time ago, as that's just quicker and I can go by without explaining.

Still - if there's a god around, which is possible but improbable - I'm making sure I make fucking good use of the free will they gave me.

For me personally, atheism is saying 'there is nothing more to the universe or reality, what you see is what you get' which is extremely pretentious. Agnosticism is admitting to the possibility that there's something going on here, but we don't know and would likely be incapable of understanding what it is.

Richard Dawkins referred to himself as a nontheist as a better term then atheist in one of his books. He said there is no such thing as an agnostic, either you believe or you don't believe. If undeniable proof of the existence of a god comes along and you refuse to believe then you are just a fool.