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[–] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

You can be an agnostic deist. Agnostic just means you have no firm belief. Most people who identify as "nones" in polls are technically agnostic, even if they personally believe in a higher power. Its a lack of certainty.

Most atheists are also technically agnostic atheists. A gnostic athiest would be someone who holds the absence of any higher being or spirituality as an almost axiomatic belief. Though they merely can be so certain that the small chance they're wrong seems irrelevant to them.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

Agnosticism isn't a lack of certainty; it's a lack of knowledge. I am agnostic about many, many things. For example, Bigfoot. I haven't seen any good evidence for the existence of Bigfoot (i.e., I have no knowledge of the existence of Bigfoot), so I don't believe in Bigfoot. I'm the same way with the existence of gods.

[–] zaperberry@lemmy.ca 5 points 22 hours ago

For simplicity, I've always explained agnosticism as the belief that "I don't know and neither do you".