Agnostics are just atheists uncomfortable with the label. If you do not believe that a god exists, whether or not you claim that he/she/it/they/??? probably does not exist, then you are an atheist by definition.
There is a difference between agnostic atheists and gnostic atheists: agnostic atheists do not have a god belief, but they do not claim to know or that it is knowable whether or not a god exists; gnostic atheists claim to know whether or not a god exists. There are no atheists with a brain who are gnostic atheists, as it is not a logically defensible position. The term merely exists as a counterpoint to gnostic theists, who claim to know that a god exists.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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