Reply #19: I think that people identify

[Goblinmonger]

as agnostic because they think it is the "nicer" option and they know that atheists are the least respected minority in the US as per the U of Minn study.

To put agnostic and atheist as mutually exclusive shows a complete lack of understanding of the meaning of the words. What is so hard for you to understand about that?

Nice strawman, but I don't want agnosticism as a subset of atheism. I want people to use the words based on what they mean. Gnostic is about knowledge and theism is about belief.

For future rants on your part, please don't quote me as saying that you were mad at some mean ol' atheist. I was talking about the author quoted in the OP.

I don't really care if it comes in here, just not surprised that it was you dun' brung it.