Don't people that call themselves "Agnostic Atheists" piss you off?

Question

Come on now which one is it; Agnostic or Atheist?

Answer 1

I've actually wondered this myself. LOL

Answer 2

Agnostic Atheism is down in the dictionary. If you dont know what it means, check the meaning below.

Agnostic atheism is a philosophical doctrine that encompasses both atheism and agnosticism. While the concepts of atheism and agnosticism occasionally overlap, they are distinct because atheism is generally defined as "a condition of being without theistic beliefs" while agnosticism is usually defined as "an absence of knowledge (or any claim of knowledge)". An agnostic may identify as an atheist or a theist in certain circumstances.

Answer 3

Agnosticsm:

Agnosticism (from the Greek a, meaning "without" and gnosis, "knowledge", translating to unknowable) is the philosophical view that the truth value of certain claims — particularly theological claims regarding metaphysics, afterlife or the existence of God, god(s), or deities — is unknown or (possibly) inherently unknowable. Some agnostics take a stronger view that the concept of a deity is incoherent, thus meaningless and irrelevant to life. The term is used to describe those who are unconvinced or noncommittal about the existence of deities as well as about other matters of religion. Early Christian church leaders used the Greek word gnosis (knowledge) to describe "spiritual knowledge". "Agnostic" was introduced by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1869 to describe his philosophy. Agnosticism is not to be confused with religious views opposing the doctrine of gnosis and Gnosticism— these are religious concepts that are not generally related to agnosticism.


Atheism:

Atheism is the state of disbelief or non-belief in the existence of a deity or deities.[2] It is commonly defined as the positive denial of theism (ie. the assertion that deities do not exist) or the deliberate rejection of theism (i.e., the refusal to believe in the existence of deities). However, others—including most atheistic philosophers and groups—define atheism as the simple absence of belief in deities, thereby designating many agnostics, and people who have never heard of gods, such as the unchurched or newborn children, as atheists as well. In recent years, some atheists have adopted the terms strong and weak atheism to clarify whether they consider their stance one of positive belief no gods exist, or of negative unbelief.

People can be so ignorant.

Answer 4

Personally I refuse to believe in Atheists and I am slightly Agnostic about this also.

Answer 5

You can be both. You can be an agnostic atheist or an agnostic theist or a gnostic atheist or a gnostic theist.

Apparently, you're using the popular version of "agnostic" and not the original meaning.

Gnostic and Agnostic deal with whether you think a god, if it exists, would have direct evidence for it. A gnostic would claim that a god would be known, i.e. you could show evidence that would demonstrate the existence of the god. An agnostic claims that if a god exists, it is not something we would be able to know. Such a person claims that the divine is unknowable.

Theism and atheism deal with whether someone believes a god exists or not. A theist claims that a god probably exists. An atheist claims that a god probably does not exist.

Therefore:
Theistic gnostic = God exists and here's the evidence
Theistic agnostic = God exists, but you can't prove he exists
Atheistic gnostic = I don't believe in the existence of any gods. If one existed, we would know about it.
Atheistic agnostic = I don't believe in the existence of any gods, but if they existed we wouldn't be able to demonstrate their existence.

Answer 6

If you let little things like that piss you off, you are only going to go around angry all of the time. People are free to call themselves whatever they want. Even if it doesn't make any sense to anybody else. Merry Christmas.

Answer 7

Actually Wicca/christians piss me off. How can you pracise witchcraft which is against the Bible and then say you are a Christian???

Answer 8

They can call themselves whatever they like. Doesn't affect me any.

And I'm an atheistic polytheist. Really. I can explain it, even. But I won't here. ;)

Answer 9

No...it doesn't piss me off.

Agnostic and Atheists are different.

Answer 10

No. People who ask such questions piss me off. They are not honest enough to just say what their opinion is, so they pretend it is a question instead.

Answer 11

Seeing tired cliche questions like this one pisses me off infinitely more. Think of something interesting to say.