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« on: December 06, 2021, 08:26:53 pm »
Well there are two binaries that aren’t mutually exclusive, yeah.
A/gnosticism, dealing with knowledge of a higher being. and a/theism, dealing with belief in a higher being.
Agnostics believe you can’t know if a higher being exists, gnostics believe you can.
Atheists believe there is no higher being, theists do.
An agnostic atheist thus believes there is no higher being, you just can’t prove it.
A gnostic atheist believes there is no higher being.
An agnostic theist believes there is a higher being, you just can’t prove it.
A gnostic theist believes there is a higher being.
It’s all a bit more complicated than that, but that’s the gist.
However, as a counterpoint to Dwarfy, there are some atheists who are as vocal and fervent in their belief as any theist, Richard Dawkins being a good example.