To answer the question in the title of the thread, no.
Theist is the on position, atheist is the off position, "agnostic=I don't know" it does not indicate what you dont know so it is not a position.
The problem with people who use the word "agnostic" by itself do not take into account time frame issues of past claims, current claims, and future possible discoveries.
You can be of the "off" position on past and current claims, but "I don't know" about the future.
My current position about past and current god claims is an absolute "OFF". But strictly semantically and "technically" we have not lived the entire future. But even in that case I find the idea of a any god fleetingly unlikely to the 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% chance.
So I am a strong atheist on the past and present and even a strong atheist about the future but a "technical" "agnostic atheist" even though I still find the claim to be absurd. As far as a future discovery of the existence of a god I look at it as "True we have not lived the future yet, but monkeys might fly out of my ass too, since we don't know".
Now conversely an outright theist claims a specific god to be real. An agnostic theist isn't sure what to call it or what it's attributes are but holds the "on" position.
Theist is the on position, atheist is the off position, "agnostic=I don't know" it does not indicate what you dont know so it is not a position.
The problem with people who use the word "agnostic" by itself do not take into account time frame issues of past claims, current claims, and future possible discoveries.
You can be of the "off" position on past and current claims, but "I don't know" about the future.
My current position about past and current god claims is an absolute "OFF". But strictly semantically and "technically" we have not lived the entire future. But even in that case I find the idea of a any god fleetingly unlikely to the 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% chance.
So I am a strong atheist on the past and present and even a strong atheist about the future but a "technical" "agnostic atheist" even though I still find the claim to be absurd. As far as a future discovery of the existence of a god I look at it as "True we have not lived the future yet, but monkeys might fly out of my ass too, since we don't know".
Now conversely an outright theist claims a specific god to be real. An agnostic theist isn't sure what to call it or what it's attributes are but holds the "on" position.
