Whistling In The Dark

You really don't think Eric believes his definition of Atheist? Or were you just being clever? His definition fits the atheism that is referenced in the Biercesque definition of Agnostic. Eric is talking about those who hold Atheism as a faith, which group is easy to misidentify as all atheists. There have been very few self identified atheists in this thread who have made convincing arguments that their atheism isn't a matter of faith, and to those, he might owe an apology. Or at least an acknowledgment that his definition didn't include them (which he has actually done in at least one case, if in different words.)