Maybe I have a misguided understanding of the definition of atheism, but I always understood it to be a rejection of theism, not a position of categorically denying even the possibility of the existence of the supernatural, but the mere rejection of the god hypothesis as being baseless and pointless. I like that because I do not want to call myself an agnostic something, which brings connotations of being a fencehopping simpleton who thinks everything unprooven is equally improbable.
Anyone who calls himself an agnostic-atheist has thought things through enough to reject any theistic deity as completely absurd and astronomically unlikely, but to someone with a less stable grip on reality it sounds like you are a seeker who just hasn't heard the right proverbs yet.
That's why I'd rather not deal with that agnostic nonsense: You reject every major religion as equally absurd, and your level of uncertainty has a devider of Grahams number? Call yourself an atheist! Otherwise we can just throw out the definition alltogether because it applies to noone.
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