Agnostic: a pointless term?

[bennyboy]

Sure, I guess I didn't explain it too well, I'm actually saying agnostic and gnostic are rather useless. Everyone is really an agnostic by the stricter definitions, but mostly gnostic by sensible definitions. Anyone claiming to be a gnostic under a strict definition is generally being pig headed.

So instead of agnostic atheist, just atheist is fine. So my point is that adding agnostic is redundant if you're talking to sensible people with reasonable definitions. I don't think it adds anything that not being crazy wouldn't show.

I agree about "agnostic atheism" being redundant and mostly pointless-- to me, it's kind of a philosophical cop-out. However, I'm a declared agnostic. To me, not knowing is a meaningful position, and doesn't imply any default position. I do not, for example, like people telling me that since I'm agnostic, I have no active belief in God, and am therefore an agnostic atheist by default.