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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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Yes words can have different meanings... but most atheists define the term as simply a lack of belief with no claim being made.

Try and find one, here or publicly, who claims there are absolutely no gods.  There are some, but they are rare.  So the fact that it can mean a different thing than is most common doesn't mean they are equally weighted.  They are not.[/quote]

Just as I can say there are absolutely no fairies I can say there are absolutely no gods. Either you believe in supernatural forces or you don’t. Most atheists don’t. 
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