And now I’m just rambling but technically all agnostics are atheists. As an atheist is simply a person who doesn’t believe in any deities. Well if you are even the most middle of the ground agnostic, as in you don’t really know for sure one way or another, you are still not actively believing in a god, so in a way, all agnostics are atheists, and all atheists are agnostic, because to NOT be agnostic in the sense that Einstein thought of the word, would mean you know everything, which is impossible. So really everyone is agnostic. Even if you believe in God with all your heart, you can’t possibly say you KNOW for sure.
Maybe the notion of being agnostic is really the way people of every faith and non faith come together.
theist: someone who believes in God
agnostic: someone who neither believes in God or the existence of God
Atheist: someone who believes God doesn’t exist
That is how I understand the three to be.
Sorry to respond to a month old post. This is the way I see it, and probably what Darth Lucas was getting at.
Agnostic is simply a prefix that means you aren’t sure. There can be agnostic theists (I can’t be sure but I believe in god), and agnostic atheists (I can’t be sure but I don’t believe in god). On the other hand there’s gnostic theists and atheists, who claim that they can, or do know for a fact.