Okay so my class is studying medieval life so naturally Christianity comes up since it was a HUGE part of life in the Middle Ages.
After class everyone is talking about their beliefs and that's fine and dandy but this annoys me SO much.
People cannot fucking differentiate between atheism and agnosticism. There were these two girls who were like "Atheists KNOW there is no God, but I can't say that for sure so I'm an agnostic", or, "I'm agnostic because I'm open to the idea of God".
NO. THAT ISN'T HOW IT WORKS.
Here's Google's definition of agnosticism; "a person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God or of anything beyond material phenomena".
Agnostics don't know; neither do atheists. Here's the key difference: Agnostics, since they can't prove or disprove it, don't take a stance on it or say it's impossible to know.
Atheists just don't believe in it.
Please, everyone, before you claim to be an agnostic see if you're just confused on the definitions.
/rant