Originally Posted by Grandmaster LH
Here's my 7,050th time correcting this misconception.
Atheism isn't based off of belief, it is simply an absence of belief; 'a-theism' is, literally, 'no-belief'. Saying that I have no belief in God is much, much different than saying that I believe there is no God. Agnostic means 'no-knowledge,' meaning that an agnostic believes that humans cannot know. I don't believe that we cannot ever gain enough knowledge to truly know; I just believe that at this point there isn't any proof in favor of God for me to change my default position of absence of belief into a position of positive belief.