Atheists, what are your thoughts on us Agnostics?

[Astonished]

Sorry, not really something I thought through.  But my being agnostic has more to do with not pretending to know enough about the alleged 'god' thingy to say anything intelligent about it - including that it does not exist.  But no, I don't believe gods as the kind of MegaMarvelSuperBeings you hear about are out there.  So thoroughly devoid of god belief, of course.

What interests me is what about our species enables god belief.  The 'gods' that interest me are the phenomenon experience by believers.  Whatever that is is all that there is, nothing else deserves to be called "god".

I may have lied, I did have a preconception that, at least to some degree, parts of the agnostic ideas in regards to this were 'not thought through'.

So here's the problem I have with that limited info. If you never heard of a god concept, there would be no occasion to contemplate it. It's only because it was artificially introduced by superstitious lunatics and runs amok like a virus in brains not inoculated against it. Like any fictional being with any sort of extraordinary characteristics ascribed to it, it merits no thought or credibility. To do otherwise is to say "Well, they could be right by accident, at least in some respects, about this ill-defined thing that not a single pair of people on this earth can possibly come up with a complete consensus on." This is almost as nonsensical as any genuinely theistic statement. Further, how would anyone go about proving that any god concept is even possible, let alone probable? You can't actually concede that 'anything' is possible let alone something with so many definitions that are contrary.

If you spend any more time contemplating the god concept than you do any and all other fictional characters, you are being dishonest because they are all subject to the same problems, namely being ill-defined, lacking in evidence in the same capacity, and just as implausible. Giving that any special privilege betrays a certain...I'm not sure what word would work here, but you would be behaving just as illogically as any theist because you have no basis for giving more consideration to one of these claims than any other if you are truly lacking in definitions or information or proof or whatever it is you need.

Ultimately I don't think it's a good label any more than atheist, but for different reasons. I think it sends the wrong message to theists, obviously. Like they might actually have some credibility that doesn't completely write off their bullshit since they perceive it as you not completely going to the 'dark side' and maybe there's hope for bringing you back the flock (so you're also inviting them to patronize you by taking you as an easier mark than someone fully on the other side of the fence). So I can say that I don't respect you, for a number of reasons such as not coming up with a better label or making an actual decision (although according to Aron Ra, if you're agnostic, you're an atheist whether you like it or not). What's the agnostic equivalent of Rational Skeptic, or is there one? I don't think those two are compatible so you can't just adopt it without there being a conflict...But if I had a friendly suggestion I would say put the word 'atheist' before agnostic if you want to label yourself as an agnostic atheist, and if you're an agnostic theist...which I'm not sure is a thing...well, I can't help ya.