"My friend Toby is really an atheist but he's scared that he might be wrong so he says he's agnostic"
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A scape-goat word that people use when they are too afraid of what society will think of them for saying that they don't believe in a "god".
Uber Religious Friend: "Hey Buddy, wanna go to church with me instead of hanging out and playing video games today?"
Guy who doesn't believe in god at all but is scared of what his friend will think: "ooh, I'm agnostic.. I don't think I'll go today but maybe next time!" (knowing he'll never go because he doesn't believe in god AT ALL)
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N. A person to lazy to observe a religion, and to cowardly to say there is no god.
N. That agnostic is an indecisive religious thinker.
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"Agnostics are just atheists without balls" - Stephen T. Colbert
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1. An intellectually sound position on a given idea (or thing, or subject, etc.) for which evidence for it's existence is insufficient.
2. The intellectually sound qualifier that most people who understand the meaning of the word put at the beginning of their given religious classification.
3. An atheist who doesn't like the word "atheist".
4. An atheist who thinks the definition of "atheist" is one who claims to know there are no gods.
5. An atheist who doesn't know that the definition of "atheist" is one who does not believe in any gods.
6. A word fought over by all manner of agnostics, atheists and Theists; meaningless minutia.
1. "I'm agnostic on the Higgs boson particle."
2. "I'm an agnostic Jew (or atheist, or Christian, or Hindu, etc.) because I don't know for a fact that god/s exist, and even if I did, I would still not necessarily know the nature of said potential god/s."
3. Professor Bart D. Ehrman.
4. George Carlin, deceased; Bill Maher.
5. most agnostics
6. the other 5 definitions
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An agnostic is someone who adopts Pascal's Wager as their "life philosophy".
Agnostics are to bible thumpers as mall goths are to yuppies.
Agnostics are to Atheists as something is to nothing.
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A person who thinks there is a higher being (such as god), but knows there is no way to prove it exists, or doesn't exist. Most of the people who are agnostic don't really care enough to fully believe in a higher being. It isn't uncommen to see an agnostic going to any form of church, and supporting conservative Christian canidates.
Agnostic: "Meh.. Sure I believe in a god of some form, but I don't know which religion has the right god.. "
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