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I think you got the part about Atheists subtly wrong.. they're not staking their eternity on having the right answer, they're saying there's no evidence of any God or Gods and therefore have to believe the resulting position; most Atheists would change their position if confronted with compelling evidence.

Of course some would say that precludes faith, but then again Paul was knocked off his horse and made temporarily blind; hard not to believe after that, but that's not faith. Witnessing a miracle, audibly hearing the voice of God, or having a vision would reduce faith since it would be evidence.

"We should walk by and express what we know to be true until proven wrong." That doesn't really make any sense though, because if you know it to be true then it's been proven. It should be "believe it to be true". EDIT: At least given the general definition of "know", not a "know it in my heart" which is just another way of saying believe. And that illustrates the fundamental difference that separates the two sides; for one side the default position is to believe one is right until proven wrong, the other side the default position is to not believe until proven right.