This year I ' m thankful for my 2 nd amendment right . Last year I was scared of owning a gun in my parents home . 6 months ago I got my first handgun . 6 months later I now own many more ! D <| sep |> Just keep trying , eventually I got an email letting my create a password . <| sep |> If you don ' t actually believe in any of those higher powers , then congratulations You ' re an atheist . Most atheists are agnostic atheists like yourself , who don ' t believe in higher powers because no reason exists to support such a claim . However , were evidence to show up , you would likely change your mind . This is where the scientific method gets you , when applied to theism . Science would be an agnostic atheist with the working assumption that no gods or evidence of gods have ever been discovered , but open to the possibility of changing to accommodate new discoveries . A Gnostic atheist takes a harder line approach by claiming knowledge that there are no gods , but this is actually a very uncommon position . It would be unreasonable , since that pronouncement cannot be made on an absence of evidence . The former is the position we take on most things , especially supernatural claims that we haven ' t been indoctrinated to believe are true . Nobody believes in the Olympian gods anymore , for example . If someone tried to get you to believe in their god , I wager you would dismiss their claims out of hand , or at least demand evidence . Many people believe in AllahYahweh , though , without any such evidence to convince them . Unless you have a belief in a specific god or spirit this makes you an atheist .