Agnosticism and Atheism

I found this interesting article while visiting the American Atheist website. If you are looking for a good read, and aren’t afraid to read something that may put some of your beliefs into question, give it a shot. If you don’t buy into it, it can only make your beliefs stronger.

An old question recently led me to a new thought: can an Agnostic be a Theist? The easy answer appears to be yes, because there are people who call themselves Agnostics and Theists. As we will see below, we cannot leave that claim unchallenged. But a second question emerges from this line of thought: can an Agnostic be an Atheist? In other words, what is the relationship between Agnosticism, Theism, and Atheism? Is Agnosticism a third, intermediate, alternative position, or is it something else? more