Well, just as the words Republican and Liberal have been melodramatcally redefined to support the PR goals of one or another side, so you can wrench these words around to be something they never were originally.

AGNOSTIC: A word first used by Professor Huxley, to indicate one who believes nothing which cannot be demonstrated by the senses.
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An Agnostic [1] [noun] [OW] embraces a worldview in which the existence of deity is unknown or unknowable. Derives from the Greek agnostos, a = without, gnostos = known or knowledge. "Agnostic[ism] [CE] was coined by Professor TH Huxley in 1869 to describe the mental attitude of one who regarded as futile all attempts to know the reality corresponding to our ultimate scientific, philosophic, and religious ideas."
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one who believes that the evidence for and against the existence of God is inconclusive. (agnosticism)
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Agnostic: one who questions religious or spiritual beliefs, and who may choose not to claim any system of knowledge.
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One who holds the theory that God is unknown or unknowable
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ATHEIST:someone who denies the existence of god
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Atheism is the state either of being without theistic beliefs, or of actively disbelieving in the existence of deities. In antiquity, Epicureanism incorporated aspects of atheism, but it disappeared from the philosophy of the Greek and Roman traditions as Christianity gained influence. ...
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one who believes that there is no God. (atheism)
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