Agnostics in the modern sense are people that don't believe in god yet don't assure that god doesn't exist, yet the very definition of atheism is a lack of belief in god. Asserting that god doesn't or cannot exist does happen amongst some Atheists though that is not usually the norm. Ergo, Agnostics are really Atheists.
You can stop reading here if you don't care about the history of the term agnostic.
For those that don't know, being Agnostic in its pure form is to not have knowledge of god, so someone can be a theist because they believe in god although they don't have any personal knowledge of god (as for example not having seen him). It isn't until someone decided to rape the original meaning of Agnostics that it was thought of as something independant of Theism and Atheism. I think this created the whole big confusion for so called Agnostics that don't really understand they are Atheists.
2007-01-29
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