@Didymos Thomas,
At most I might consider Thomas to be counted among the agnostics, however he insists that he is rather suited to Christianity. You Boagie, are indeed an Atheist, in that you deny the possibility of god totally, rather than admit that you know nothing about god, for how can you make statements about that which for you isn't there, and thus cannot make assertions about god's properties including its existence, especially without defining god, though you would likely find nonsensical descriptors such as omnipotence. It is precisely your problem, I think, that your intent is misdplaced and as such you tend to overstep your bounds in asserting the truth of such universalities as the absence of god. For though it might be a personal truth for you, there are no ethical or any reasonable grounds to assert such truths in general.
According to the faithful, knowledge of god does not spring from power of reason but power of faith. The two do not intersect, lest the beliefs take unwarrented liberty and tread upon faith in logical inquiry, for; upon such a slight one might be right in their disagreement with the other, but it is never so when such a transgression hasn't passed.
I think rather than quibble over such questions of belief, realizing that any debate on the matter is illfounded and often in ill tase, it would be more beneficial to discuss what is good in religious texts in order that these points might be recognized in other major religious texts and the wisdom of the might be extracted for universal benefit. Surely we all could find some good in some of these texts, just as we find good in the text of any intent. The buddhist texts, the Tibeten book of the Dead, The New Testament, the ethical writings of the Rabbi's. These texts have value and wisdom in them. We should not discredit them for the bad we find and forget to reap the good.