DuracellEnergizer said:

Personally, I wouldn't want to be labelled an atheist - or an agnostic atheist, for that matter - even though I suppose I do meet your criteria, for the simple reason being that I don't like atheism - in fact, I hate it* - and don't want to be associated with it.

You meet the status quo on that one, Dur. Atheism has quite a bit of a stigma attached to it, and you'd be one of many atheists I have encountered who refuse to call themselves atheists because of their ill feelings toward them. There is a rather surprising societal bias against atheists. People like the word agnostic because it feels less extreme.

I think this is going along with the idea that atheism is some kind of a doctrine. A year or so ago, I walked into a bookstore and purchased a copy of Hitch-22. The woman at the checkout looked amused and said, "That's funny, you don't look like an atheist to me, and I know atheists." I tend to find checkout line conversation irksome enough even when the clerk is not saying ridiculous things. I wanted to ask, "And what should an atheist look like?" but decided just to make a bemused grunt instead. The woman was assuming only atheists would read Hitchens, and that they all somehow look to be a certain way.

Atheism isn't a doctrine, a religion, a set of beliefs, or even a subculture (though you do have subcultures that are atheist). It is merely a lack of belief in a deity, nothing more or less. When you say you hate atheism, you are essentially saying that you hate disbelief in gods.