I've long identified as an agnostic, due to my acceptance of the fact that when it comes to matters of the supernatural, I just don't know. I felt that this lack of total belief in something was worth highlighting - that I wasn't just taking a standpoint without any evidence, but was keeping an open mind.
However, over
here I ended up finally admitting something I've been feeling for a while - that this position is (in normal, day-to-day life) a cop-out.
While agnosticism seems on the surface to be the only totally rational approach, presuming that something with no evidence might be true is only ever applied in the matters of religion. With no positive evidence of the supernatural, it seems a tad pointless to even bother thinking about it, let alone adopting a fence-sitting position.
I mean, I _might_ exist purely in a virtual simulation running inside a computer system run by AIs that won the war against humanity. But with no positive evidence that this is the case, I wouldn't claim to be agnostic on the matter. So why claim agnosticism on the matter of gods, demons, souls, free will, giant sky cows or any other claims for which there is no evidence?
My basic position is that these things do not exist, and in fact I spent 99.99% of my life treating these ideas with all the contempt they deserve (except in fiction, where I think they're great). So, yes, atheism for me. Odin - I deny thee!
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