Shouldn't atheists instead be agnostics?

<p>okay, so we basically wrote the same thing, WatchMeShine...or maybe I should have been clearer in my post... I meant that just because you are atheist doesn't necessarily mean that you are irreligious.</p>

<p>But like I said, the underlying principles of atheism and agnosticism are the same (that there is no proof God exists) but the conclusions are different (atheism posits that because you can't prove God's existence, he doesn't exist and agnostics believe that even though you can't prove it, God MAY exist).</p>