Putting the Misconception to Bed: Why Atheism and Agnosticism are Not Mutually Exclusive

Originally written May 5th, 2006

Recently, I’ve been forced to defend my atheism. That doesn’t come as a big shocker to me, given that I live in the ’south’ but what does surprise me is why I’ve been forced to defend it. It all started when a pack of youth missionaries asked me “How can you be so certain that there is no God?”. I told them I wasn’t. For all I know, there could be a God but I simply don’t believe there is one. Like sharks smelling blood, they jumped all over that one for my apparent self-contradiction.