Who told you that 'agnostic' and 'atheist' were mutually exclusive?

Question

Why are there so many people who pretend this is true? Why are there so few people who understand what these words mean?

Why are some people so worried about categorisation anyway?

Answer 1

I know that i will never be sure whether there is a God or not.

so, i'm agnostic.

For this moment i choose to believe that i tend more to the side of the non-believers. Probably there will not be a God

so, i'm atheist.

I hope there will be a God, but not the biblical one. I hope God is a sort of constant energy of Love in this universe. I can't even explain.

so, i'm religious, in some way.

I prefer humans over Gods. I love human beings, and i tend to take care of them if needed.

so, i'm a humanist, in some way.

I can also be pretty romantic, but sometimes i'm not. I can be a big jerk form time to time, but most of the time i'm not. I can love people, i can also hate them. I have no idea in which categories those fall.
I breathe, eat, sleep, i can walk on two legs and sometimes i even use my brain.

I'm human, i guess.

Answer 2

AGNOSTIC – does no longer believe some thing should be study or proved about a god. therefore they could nevertheless believe a god exists. This description for sure suits distinctive Christians!!! ATHEIST - someone who does no longer position self belief in a God – any God – no longer purely the Christian one. yet that does no longer propose they do no longer carry solid moral or non secular beliefs! they could persist with any faith that does no longer have a god and there are distinctive those!! technological information explains the large bang became no longer from no longer some thing yet from a singularity that became each and each and every of the remember and ability contained in the universe compressed right into a unmarried element that then higher instantly!! The Pope, Catholic Church, Church of england and mainstream church homes all settle for evolution and the large bang!! Lord Carey the former Archbishop of Canterbury placed it o.k. – “Creationism is the fruit of a fundamentalist frame of mind to scripture, ignoring scholarship and severe learning, and sophisticated distinct understandings of reality”!! seems you're obtainable with the fundies then!!

Answer 3

Well, I'm not certain I entirely understand your question, but if you think you know better, I'd certainly love to hear it.

"Agnostic" and "atheist" ARE mutually exclusive. You can't both believe that there is no god/higher power AND believe that you can never know whether there is. Obviously if you're an atheist you think you know there isn't a god, while an agnostic admits he/she can't know.

Answer 4

It's human nature to categorize. It gives them a feeling of safety if they can fit things in a specific place.

They also think agnostic and atheist are the same thing because they don't take the time to research it themselves. They are so busy buying into what other people tell them is "truth" and never bother to think for themselves!

Answer 5

no one ever told me that. I've been agnostic all my life but I'm definitely not an atheist!
People don't understand the difference because they refuse to read a dictionary, or maybe they can't....i dunno....the world is full of idiots, that I know for sure!

Agnostic-believes there is no proof of God.
Atheist-believes there is no God

Answer 6

aethist and naturalist are the same.

Agnostic is someone who doesn't want to talk about it. You may disagree with this definition of agnostic but it is from my own experience with people who say they are agnostic - not a dictionary definition.

Answer 7

Yawn...

You have to be agnostic rather than atheist otherwise you wouldnt be asking all these questions-thirsting for spiritual knowledge.

Answer 8

I don't know. Though there is of course the opposite problem of many right wing Christians assuming they are the same thing.

Answer 9

Well, since atheists don't believe in god, and christians do, and nobody has proof, I'd have to say we're all agnostic! =0P