Do you believe in God, or do you believe that there is no God*? Just how sure are you? Depending on your answer, you may be an atheist or a theist along the spectrum of surety with agnosticism on one end and gnosticism on the other.
(*Now, someone explain to me whether Zen Buddhists believe in God.)
Confused? You're not alone, but thanks to Pablo Stanley (previously on Neatorama), we now have a handy dandy guide to know what the hell you are:
"As a statement about the universe I am agnostic, in the sense that God's existence or nonexistence is neither provable nor disprovable. As a statement about my personal beliefs and habits, I am a nontheist. I assume and act as if there is no God. Based on this place me where you will."
-- Michael Shermer
http://www.celebatheists.com/wiki/Michael_Shermer
I don't like the distinction betewen the doubtfulness of the message "I might be wrong" and sniffyness of "that is just dumb"...
I am a true Agnostic. I don't know and it is impossible to know until I die.
Living humans arguing about the nature of god are like blind men arguing about the color of a bird whose wings they heard flapping nearby, when there is also the possibility it was nothing but a gust of wind.
Shut up, live your life by the golden rule and you'll find out when you die.
God
Believe
Exists
because I do believe in something, just not the God that Richard Darwkins doesn't believe in.
If looked at that way, then there are no atheists, just some people who don't recognize what they worship. Christianity and its faith-based cousins mangled this view, and now we live in very confused times were rejecting a certain type of Abrahamic creator god is seen as atheism. But my views are old-fashioned here.
Are there human cultural archetypes that humans can use to psych themselves up to do extraordinary feats of strength, endurance, creativity or intellect? Sure, and if they didn't exist we'd invent them - super-memes, Big Ideas that have proved useful to us. That to me is a god. I don't worship it like Xtians worship theirs - they're archetypes, they're not an emotionally needy supreme being - but I can call them into me to get me through bad times or optimise my good times. That's what I think they're for. I think we have a capacity and a need for creativity & narrative which logic alone doesn't fulfil. This is the realm of dreams & visions, our cerebral defrag routine, making sense of the illogical by creative narrative means. You can choose to believe the illogical while not throwing out the logical - I can say I believe in Mercury or Thor or Papa Legba, and be able to picture them & really believe in them with my figurative brain, but with my logical brain still know that gravity pulls you down, electricity powers my Mac, and water's wet. The trouble with religion is when you let the figurative rule the logical.