Agnosticism for Idiots; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the People Who Hate Atheists

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186. What the hell are you talking about?

Miriam-Webster:

Atheist: "One who believe that there is no deity"

Agnostic: "A person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (as God) is unknown and probably unknowable; broadly: one who is not committed to believe in either the existence or t he nonexistence of God or a god."

Oxford Dictionaries:

Atheist: "A perseon who disblieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods."

Agnostic: "A person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God or anything beyond material phenomena; a person who claims neither faith nor disbelief in God."

American Heritage Dictionary:

Atheism: "Disbelief in or denial of the existence of God or gods."

Agnosticism: "1. The doctrine that certainty about first principles or absolute truth is unattainable and that only perceptual phenomena are objects of exact knowledge. 2. The belief that the existence or nonexistence of a deity or deities cannot be known with certainty."

Collins English Dictionary:

Atheist: "A person who does not believe in God or gods."

Agnostic: "A person who holds that knowledge of a Supreme Being, ultimate cause, etc, is impossible."

Cambridge Dictionary of American English:

Atheist: "Someone who believes that God does not exist."

Agnostic: "Someone who believes that it is impossible to know whether or not God exists."



Seriously. Do you not see that these words are not mutually exclusive, or do I need to start posting the definitions of "believe" and "know"?