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That's agnostic atheism. The term "agnostic" is the opposite of "gnostic". Being a gnostic atheist would mean you think there's direct proof against god as a concept, rather than merely saying there's no evidence in favor.

I'm gnostic about the Abrahamic god existing, and agnostic about any other god existing. I call myself an atheist, and most other atheists seem to hold a similar position. Not that I have a randomly selected poll of atheists or anything; just anecdotal observation.

That's not really a fair comparison. We know what unicorns are. If someone discovered an animal that looked like a horse but had a horn growing in the middle of its forehead, they could call that a unicorn and most people would agree with them. It's theoretically possible (albeit extremely unlikely) that that animal exists somewhere.

With God, on the other hand, the definitions are constantly changing and self-contradictory. Even as a theoretical concept God has never been described with any degree of coherence, so the idea of whether or not it "exists" is moot. Something needs to exist as a concept before the question of whether or not it exists in the real world can even be asked.

To me it comes down to a scientific approach.

The hypotheses that Gandalf is a fictional creation has enough evidence to it that I believe it has risen to the level of a theory. Well, I'm being a little flippant here, but just demonstrating my point.

Same thing with unicorns, there is such a lack of evidence for the hypothesis of their physical existence that at this point it's been pretty much disproven.

The way God is generally hypothesized, it's hard (if not impossible) to prove or disprove. I don't adhere to someone's hypothesis that there is a god because they have not provided evidence that it exists. And maybe it's not even a valid hypotheses because it can't be proven or disproven. So in that sense I just lack a belief in their hypothesis. Making me an atheist. But to also hypothesize that you know for sure God does not exist is also equally, and in the same way, invalid.

Agnostic to the sense of there might be some weird higher power or complex layering of reality - when theists hear agnostic though they think 'oh they're fifty-fifty on the Christian God of the Bible' which I really don't think is the case for most atheists. I know I'd sooner believe in pretty much anything before the paradoxical absurdity which backs the Abrahamic faiths.

I'm agnostic as to the labels I use to define myself.

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Shit, I just used one, didn't I?