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Wed Oct-12-05 10:57 AM
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30. It offers no information

Agnostic is a term that informs us what a person knows. The question at hand is not about knowledge. It is about what a person believes. There are ample philosophical arguments out there demonstrating that we do not truly know anything. Thus arguing about what we know is disengenuous.

Atheism vs Theism relate to what you happen to believe. What you think may be. If you believe there is a god, if even in the slightest then you are a theist. If you do not happen to believe in any gods then you are an atheist. These labels convey information unlike agnosticism.

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