I just did a 5 dictionary comparison. When used as a noun, some claim it primarily deals with knowledge while the majority specify knowledge of spiritual things and a position that it can't be known. It's treated in the vernacular as an antiparticle of Gnosis. Treated as an adjective though it clearly descibes knowledge. Which your dictionary also agrees with. I would say it's all semantics but I'd describe someone agnositic if I understood them to believe absolute knowledge was unknowable and and atheist if they lacked belief in god(s). I guess for clarity I could call someone and Agnostic when using it as a noun; when I know they hold both beliefs.
I mean do you say "I'm an agnostic" or "I'm agnostic"? Would be the determiner as to it's use I suppose.
I mean do you say "I'm an agnostic" or "I'm agnostic"? Would be the determiner as to it's use I suppose.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
