agnosticism confuses me

[wollery]

Most atheists will tell you that the "a" means "absence of", "without", "no", "lack of" etc, and that they refer to themselves as atheists because they don't believe in God/gods.

As I said in my first post in this thread: "agnostics and atheists are like two peas in a pod arguing over semantics."

I really don't wish to sound rude, but did you actually read my post?

 

[plindboe]

I really don't wish to sound rude, but did you actually read my post?

Yes, but feel free to correct me if I misunderstood you. As far as I could tell, you hinted that atheists "disbelieve in the vague possibility that a god of some sort might possibly exist". By that I assume you mean that atheists believe that gods can't exist, which would be a quite false statement. What I was saying was that your own words "I don't believe in god" is the very definition of atheism.