“Lack of belief” blurs the line between atheist and agnostic

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55. I think most of us believe in the same thing. I'm an atheist and

I think I pretty much believe the same as my Christian, Jewish and Muslim friends. None of my friends who believe in a God can define that God. They can't say what form that God takes, how He performs his miracles, what happened before God, who made God, what God looks like. When you distill the essence of what they believe, it isn't that different to an atheist view of the world. A lot of unanswered questions - what happened before the Big Bang? Where did the matter come from that caused the big bang? - What happened before God? Where did God come from. The same questions and really both God and the Big Bang are metaphors for the same thing - how did thins all happen? We share a feeling that something so big and incredible happened to create all this - and a need to seek answers - the core feelings are the same. It is written into our DNA - the difference is that an atheist looks up and asks where did this all come from, and a theist personifies the answer with an inexplicable super-being that still doesn't provide the answers. Beyond God, there really isn't any difference.