How about this:
I can never know God exists but I'm not an agnostic theist, I'm a theist. Because (my) theism requires me not to know. This isn't faulty this is actually precise.
theist = belief in God
Add in gnosticism... knowledge.. I know that I believe in God.. I don't claim to know that God exists.. I cannot.. but that is never my claim. My claim is that I know I believe.
Same with atheism.. You know you do not believe in any deity. You have knowledge that you do not believe. You can't know for sure the same as a theist can't know for sure about the existence of any deity, but that was never your claim.
Agnosticism is a category on it's own, defined as "the view that the truth value of certain claims—especially claims about the existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claims—is unknown or unknowable."
"Agnostic Atheism" is a confused combination of two words, because both make a statement about deities that are different. You can be both, but you can't link the two.
I can never know God exists but I'm not an agnostic theist, I'm a theist. Because (my) theism requires me not to know. This isn't faulty this is actually precise.
theist = belief in God
Add in gnosticism... knowledge.. I know that I believe in God.. I don't claim to know that God exists.. I cannot.. but that is never my claim. My claim is that I know I believe.
Same with atheism.. You know you do not believe in any deity. You have knowledge that you do not believe. You can't know for sure the same as a theist can't know for sure about the existence of any deity, but that was never your claim.
Agnosticism is a category on it's own, defined as "the view that the truth value of certain claims—especially claims about the existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claims—is unknown or unknowable."
"Agnostic Atheism" is a confused combination of two words, because both make a statement about deities that are different. You can be both, but you can't link the two.
