Recent content by YellowBrickRoad

Well, I think this thread has demonstrated that there is no useful common usage of those terms. Observe the numerous "Atheists = sure there's no god. Agnostic = Don't know." posts followed by "I'm an atheist and I have a different definition from that" followed by "Why can't google/dictionaries...

So you claim. But can you show how useful your definitions are? You can define atheism as holding an equally firm but opposite belief from fundamentalist theism, but my point is that that's a useless and misleading way of reading the labels. Few self-professed atheists, like me, will say that...

No that is not correct. Atheism = A-theism. i.e. NOT a theist. Agnostism = A term developed by Thomas Huxley to describe the belief that God cannot be known. (A rather bold and unsubstantiated claim.) In other words, agnostics are a subset of atheists. And I think it's rather dogmatic to...