I’m an Athiest,yes ,but not an Anti-theist! I respect other people’s beliefs...To a Point!

I am an anti-theist and it has long been my contention that "absolutely nothing" is an impossibility
Nothing is the absence of everything, in the same way cold is the absence of heat and dark is the absence of light.
Cold is only a descriptive concept, as is dark, they don't actually exist, likewise nothing is simply the description of an absence it cannot exist in and as of itself it is just a concept.
Reality "is" we measure it with our perceptions, and evaluate those perceptions with our conscious thoughts so at the absolute minimum there is awareness of thought, therefore there is not "nothing".
If there are things outside of our perception, or even technologically augmented perception they are irrelevant to us as neither we nor they can impact of the other at all ans so might as well not exist.
In to this category falls god or gods, things outside of the realm of perception and interaction, with no method of being measured, observed or assessed that even should they hypothetically exist are of no use, benefit or relevance to reality.

Nit picking. We are here because we need a refuge from the bible bangers. Atheist or agnostic is not the question. Freedom from religion is & I am here for that reason. All degrees of non belief or the questioning of belief is welcome in this atmosphere free of the majority of mystics which dominate the world.

Big tent

Here is my other reason why I sort of agree with you. My father was a very rigid dogmatic baptist. He would argue religion within his religion. That’s kind of the way I perceive a lot of the atheist. It almost seem like a dogmatic denial of god. Forgive me if any of you think I’m wrong, I did say it was my perception.

Regardless of the name, I think the owner makes it clear the website is open to everybody, including theists, as long as they are reasonably well-behaved. I don't identify as agnostic or atheist, even though I believe in a literal deity maybe even less than some of them do. I just don't think true religion has ever really been about literal deities, masses of misunderstanders notwithstanding. I think it has been, and will continue to be about metaphorical deities, which are observable, and undeniable. They are the ghosts and demons of our psychology, and were all along.

So the problem is with people not understanding a provisional position. I have yet to see an objective way to separate religious claims from fiction. Because of this, I do not believe. I am atheist to these claims. Were there a more convincing claim, I would not stubbornly refuse to believe. That is logically honest and where we would honestly prefer everyone to be.

I’m kind of with you. I’m agnostic not atheist. I think it also allows for a little more leeway, as I do see some statistical validity with othe things. Like I’ve been an amateur astrologer, and I’m open to several other things.

Perhaps you can expand on your uses of the words agnostic and athiest. A discussion about ideas is far more engaging than a discussion about words.