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I call myself an atheist simply because I don't believe that any current religious institution has the correct answer.
I've had mystical experiences and my own reasoning tells me that there is far more to the world than we are able to experience or even imagine.
But none of it corresponds to any religions I know of. The closest is maybe Buddhism, but I don't think it's the right choice for me.
And I'm not even sure if there are any Buddhist organisations out here in the norwegian countryside.
Guess I'll just have to go through my existential crisis on my own.![emoji shrug-outta-hecks shrug-outta-hecks](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/7cc4b291-507e-4aa2-9ba6-35d81eb4a08a.png)
That's not really atheist since thats denying any gods or similar phenomenon and it sound more line agnosticism or even theism
Most Atheists define Atheism as "lack of belief in a God", which seems like it applies here. Agnostic is usually defined as "lack of knowledge of a God", which also works here, so both Agnostic and Atheist.
It makes sense when you look at Theist (with belief in a God) and Gnostic (with knowledge of a God) that adding an A before it just means "without".