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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can be both agnostic AND atheist by the way.  I don’t know (of course I don’t ) but I don’t believe in a god.

In addition, I would bet that most atheists seem antagonistic towards religion for the same reason - they see the harm it has done on and individual level (often themselves ) and on a human level .  So then that leads to a good reason to dislike religion [/quote]

That depends on which definition you use...

https://www.dictionary.com/e/atheism-agnosticism/
[i]agnostic vs. atheist
There is a key distinction between these terms. An atheist doesn’t believe in the existence of a god or divine being. The word atheist originates with the Greek atheos, which is built from the roots a- (“without”) and theos (“a god”). Atheism is the doctrine or belief that there is no god.

In contrast, the word agnostic refers to a person who neither believes nor disbelieves in a god or religious doctrine. Agnostics assert that it’s impossible to know how the universe was created and whether or not divine beings exist.[/i]

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/atheism-agnosticism/
[i]The word “atheism” is polysemous—it has multiple related meanings.

[Atheism is] the view that there are no gods. A widely used sense denotes merely not believing in god and is consistent with agnosticism [in the psychological sense]. A stricter sense denotes a belief that there is no god; this use has become standard. (Pojman 2015, emphasis added)

an agnostic is a person who has entertained the proposition that there is a God but believes neither that it is true nor that it is false. 
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