So I've tried explaining my religious beliefs a couple of times (Two good examples being here and here) and as you can see am pretty much incapable of not going totally tl;dr, but briefly (ha ha):
Strictly speaking I'm an agnostic, since there are certain religious/supernatural etc things I think could be true (though I tend to think they're not) But most of the time when people say "Are you an atheist?" they mean "Are you certain the christian god doesn't exist?" to which I can say "Yes, definitely", so I tend to say I'm an atheist.
That said I think there's a lot going on the world people don't understand, and see no reason why it's fair for me to assume that I'm 100% lucid and all the religious people are deluded/fooling themselves etc, so think it's not impossible that there's something those people are connecting with I'm just not getting.
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Strictly speaking I'm an agnostic, since there are certain religious/supernatural etc things I think could be true (though I tend to think they're not) But most of the time when people say "Are you an atheist?" they mean "Are you certain the christian god doesn't exist?" to which I can say "Yes, definitely", so I tend to say I'm an atheist.
That said I think there's a lot going on the world people don't understand, and see no reason why it's fair for me to assume that I'm 100% lucid and all the religious people are deluded/fooling themselves etc, so think it's not impossible that there's something those people are connecting with I'm just not getting.