Neither a theist nor an atheist

Depends on how you define "atheist". Literally, it means "not theist", so there is no middle ground. Agnostic doesn't mean you're undecided; it means you don't know. Strictly speaking nobody knows so everybody is agnostic.

So you're an ignostic.

It's interesting that you say an agnostic "believes". What you say is true of a professing agnostic. My point is that neither Faith nor marc9000 nor Phat actually knows what they profess to believe.

And I make a distinction between professed belief and "real" belief, as you may recall from other threads.

I'd go so far as to say there are people who think they're gnostic theists but I don't believe them. We can "see" what beliefs people profess and we can see how they "act out" their actual beliefs. There likely are people who profess similarly to you and people who act similarly to you. They are not necessarily the same people.

I'd replace the cross in that diagram with a big gray square.

I don't claim to know what other people know. I just don't believe they know what they think they know. I don't believe in theists in the same way I don't believe in gods.

No.Have I stopped taking heroin? No.Have I stopped ruling the universe? No.

I'm agnostic about other people's agnosticism and/or atheism.

I'd say, rather, that the strength of your faith correlates to the strength of your belief. If you really, really, really do believe in spooks then you can have a lot of faith in spooks - but if you only kind sorta believe in spooks, you won't put much faith in them.For you, faith may be an on/off switch that goes straight from atheism to fanatical Christianity but for others it's more of a spectrum.

There's a cave-in at the quote mine. Hebrews 10:38 does not say anything about evidence.The sensible shall live by evidence. Where there is no evidence they are permitted to fall back on the inferior faith.

If you believe in them you can trust them.

Allow me to rephrase: If you believe in them, it is possible to trust them.You can not trust what you don't believe in. What you do believe in you can choose to trust or distrust. You choose to trust your God and distrust your Satan. I choose to distrust anybody who has already destroyed the world once. That's the most evil entity I know of.Edited by zombie ringo, : Spellin.

So it's okay to destroy the World Trade Center as long as there are 8 survivors? Come on. Exactly. You are assuming that He has the right to do whatever He wants. Might makes right. I am mad at that idea. Yes. The idea that God gave us "free will" but doesn't want us to use it doesn't make any sense.