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Originally Posted by Trollheart
As to the question, are Christians atheist? Well, here's one. I mean, the thing is, all my family were baptised, and when you're a baby you neither have the experience nor the ability to resist. I am a Christian, by definition, and a Roman Catholic by upbringing, but I don't believe in God. Or god. Whatever. I kind of wish He was real, as I'd love to think there's something to look forward to at the end of all this, but I really really doubt it.
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Unless you're currently practicing, you're neither a Christian nor a Catholic. Saying that you were raised as such is fine, but if you're an atheist, that makes you an apostate.
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At the same time, I'm not so arrogant as to believe that I know everything and can definitely say with total conviction that there is no God. What do I know? Maybe we're all the dream of some frustrated poster on a forum in an alternative universe. Or maybe we're smaller than ants and just think we're a dominant species. Or maybe none of us exist and we're all characters in a play. The point is, there is no way to empirically prove anything about what happens after death, not until someone comes back and gives us the skinny.
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It's a pretty old discussion that I bet we've both had several times, but atheism is the less arrogant choice of the two if you're going off of evidence alone. Most notions of a god don't restrict it to the afterlife, either.