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[gcomeau]

83. Yeah I know...

The vast majority of the people who use the word "agnostic" use it wrong, which causes most people to think they're using it right since so many other people are using it the same way. It even reached the point that the usage became so popular it required it's own entry in the dictionary since the dictionary has to track what people mean when they say the word...

But that meaning (Basically, "I am neither a theist nor an atheist but somehow in between&quot is totally logically incoherent. No matter how many people want to say they are that... they aren't. Period. Just like if millions of people decided tomorrow that the word "Republican" actually meant "winged purple unicorn" then decided to start saying they were Republicans like that and not that other original way the word meant.

They can say it all they want. they can say it so often and persistently and widespread that the dictionary puts an entry next to "Republican" that says "winged purple unicorn".

Doesn't turn them into winged purple unicorns.