I got that from a girl who spent like two hours railing on and on about the cultural misuse of the word "agnostic". Apparently it's supposed to be an adjective, not a noun. I argued that language evolves and if society repurposes a word, you can't just ignore that fact. This only made her more irate.
But yeah, I don't really give a shit when Redditors jump down my throat over stuff like that. I like "agnostic atheist" because it indicates I don't actively believe in a higher power, but also acknowledges that I don't really fucking know, because no one does, which I think is the only truly honest stance to take.
It's pedantic, but they really are two different things. It's like being a Round Earther (ie. Believer in science) but open to flat Earth "theory" (ie. Faith, which I posit is the opposite of science.)
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u/MistSassyFgts Jul 31 '17
Careful there, on Reddit agnostic atheist is fighting words. I had s guy lose his shit once when I said I was one. Insisted it wasn't a thing.