atheism is faith as much as religion is.
one is one, one is the other.
I disagree with this. You don't need to have faith to conclude that something does not exist where there exists no evidence to the contrary.
Proving the non-existence of something is near impossible, there are a million things you could conjure up that cannot be proven wrong but in all probability are impossible to exist. Now to say that we don't know what we don't know, I don't think is a very helpful argument. I agree that we don't but how can make assertions about something that we clearly do not know?
Ah you say, that makes you agnostic because you're admitting you don't know, I also disagree with that argument on the same grounds. Why is the existence of a god or gods possible while my invisible talking pet giraffe is not? A rediculous example? Absolutely!