(June 17, 2014 at 12:10 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: I figure agnostics come in three basic flavors: agnostic atheist (doesn't know, doesn't believe), agnostic theist (doesn't know, believes anyway), and agnostic agnostic (doesn't know what they believe).
I think just agnostic is fine for people who are really on the fence about whether God is real or not.
You ask them which god(s) they believe in. If they don't believe in one, then they're atheist. Theism makes the positive claim that one or more gods exists. Atheists don't make that claim. If you're open to the idea, but you're still not making the positive claim that any gods exist, then you're atheist.
An agnostic atheist simply doesn't make that positive claim. A gnostic atheist makes the negative claim that no gods exist.
