look, i don't hate atheists... I'm just embarrased that I ever called myself one
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You're taking the position that lacks belief and equating it with an assertion that there is no god. I personally don't know how anyone could say such a thing. The Universe is more vast than anything we can fathom and we hardly know anything about it... So, at the same time, feeling so confident in your version of spirituality as THE truth and THE only truth is arrogant and ignorant, IMO.
Personally, I think there's much more going on than any religion can explain... Before there were rocks, there was consciousness.
Theist: A person who accepts the claim in the existence of a god or gods
Atheist: NOT ^
Gnostic: To know, a person who believes they know their position is correct
Agnostic NOT ^
There's 4 stances you can hold
Gnostic Theist: I accept the claim that there is a god or gods, and I know it
Agnostic Theist: I accept the claim that there is a god, but I don't know it
Gnostic Atheist: I don't accept the claim that there is a god, and I know there is not
Agnostic Atheist: I don't accept the claim there is a god, but I don't know it
If someone says to me "I claim that there is a god, do you accept this claim?" and I say "No, I don't accept this claim" that isn't the same thing as me saying "No, I accept the opposite claim, that there is not a god"
What you call "atheist" is "gnostic atheist" which is sometimes referred to as "hard atheism"
What you call "agnostic" is "agnostic atheist."
Agnostic isn't a thing on its own, it's only a qualifier of your perceived level of knowledge of the aforementioned claim.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjY619aJ82Y Matt Dillahunty has a good video about what these terms mean.
I am an atheist and I might be wrong, those aren't mutually exclusive.
Every person who actively holds the belief that there is a god is theist. EVERY other person is an atheist. Whether that's people who lack that belief, or people who believe the opposite, or even people who have no concept of the concept of a god, all "atheist"
If I don't know whether or not there is a god, that makes me an atheist, because I'm a-theist, not-theist.
Agnostic on its own does not make sense, it's not a third category. That's because "theist" means "belief in a god or gods", not "belief in a god or gods, AND knowing it is correct."
Someone can not believe the claim, but also not believe the opposite claim.