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Originally posted by Link:
I was wondering: what do you think about all the atheists in the world, Yorick? Are they infidels, or are they rather people who have chosen not to believe in God? IIRC, God gave mankind the option to choose for him, or not (with no consequences)
Just a short question, nothing more 
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What is an infidel? I think you have me confused with a Wahabist Muslim.
I see atheism as a remarkably arrogant position. It presumes that a mere human who inhabits a few decades on a small planet in the corner of the universe can extend their knowledge throughout the entirety of space and time and declare with certainty that there is no God. In the process completely overriding the reality of other humans who will die rather than refute their knowledge of God.
As I have said before, all you can say is "I have not experienced this" not "this does not exist". In saying "I know God" I am not devalidating your statement "I do not know God".
I find agnosticism a much more open minded and reasonable position.
I am agnostic concerning the existence of alien life for example. I find no compelling evidence that allows me to believe they do exist, but I'm not so arrogant as to extend my experience of reality into parts of the universe I have no knowledge of.
As for a charge that it's egotistical to expect the creator of the universe would come down as a human and die for me personally... well that's the beauty of it. God can do what he wants. The idea is at once humbling and esteem building at the same time.