(December 8, 2014 at 6:40 am)bennyboy Wrote: I agree about "agnostic atheism" being redundant and mostly pointless-- to me, it's kind of a philosophical cop-out.
A more charitable way of saying it would be to describe it as truth in advertising. I'm not trying to tack my jib to catch multiple winds when I call myself that; I'm merely saying that I don't know, but I certainly don't believe.
It also is useful shorthand when dealing with assholes on the Internet who want to impute positions to me that I don't hold, such as "You're stating that you know god(s) don't exist."