Your stance on Hard Atheism

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We are explicitly giving special credit to the specific idea a god exists when we say we are agnostic. And I think thats a stupid thing to do.

Maybe you are. I do not.

I use agnostic in the etymological sense of the term, meaning that I do not know. That is clearly not giving credit to the idea that god(s) exist(s).

Gnosis refers to knowledge, "theist" refers to god-belief, and the two ought not be conflated.

I do not know that no god exists. I have seen no evidence for one, and based upon that, I do not believe one exists. That is certainly not giving credence to the idea that god exists. It is doing exactly the opposite, without making the illogical leap of claiming that god certainly doesn't exist.

It's a minor distinction that only becomes relevant when the terms are erroneously conflated.