[Skybird]

Rejection of a belief is not a belief. It is rejecting a given a belief, and the act of believing itself. Atheism is no religion. When somebody refuses to drive in a car or walk outside on the street, you cannot somehow argue that nevertheless he participates in public traffic while truth is he sits at home and has not left the house.

Atheists refuse to share beliefs in deities. Simply this, not more, not less. Some think there is/are no god(s). Others simply do not care for dealing with the question in the first, are simply uninterested.

Agnosticism: to know that one cannot know the final truths about things existing, life, universe, deities. That is the basic idea. It is a form of scepticism that does not dare to take any position pro or against deities existing. To me, it is indifference, maybe even a form of intellectual cowardice that does not want to call itself atheist for whatever a reason. But while not all atheists are agnostics, all agnostics in the end are atheists, if you think it to the end. That's why I do not see myself as agnostic, though i say myself that as human beings we cannot think (and thus: know) outside the tracks the define what "human" is. I know we cannot gain absolute knowledge. We can increase and foster our understanding of the world, life, things, ourselves. But we cannot gain a total, final, absolute knowledge. For that, we would need to be the entire universe itself, not just a part of it.