Religion
In reply to the discussion: Is Atheism a Belief? [View all]AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)A atheist can be gnostic or agnostic.
A theist can be gnostic or agnostic.
A quaker and many deists are theists. They believe in a god. But they are agnostic in that they do not believe we do, or can know much or anything about that god. They believe it is inaccessible or incomprehensible to us.
Theism is about belief. Gnosticism is about knowledge.
An atheist can be an Atheist(TM) and either Gnostic (asserts that we can/do know there is no such thing as god) or an atheist can be an Atheist(TM) that is Agnostic (rejects human claims of XYZ gods and the associated claimed evidence of such, while remaining open to the possibility there is a god but we can't or haven't yet directly perceived it, and that none of the people claiming to have done so, are correct about their claims.)