Isn't Agnosticism Redundant?

Since neither theist nor atheist knows.

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I wouldn't say it's redundant. Agnostics choose not to speculate on whether there is or isn't an afterlife, and whether there are or are not any gods. They feel it's worthless and useless to consider the question.

BibleData · M

@LordShadowfire So what's the difference between ignorant and agnostic?

LordShadowfire · 100+, M

@BibleData Agnostics are aware that they don't know. They choose not to explore the topic because they think they cannot know.

BibleData · M

@LordShadowfire I understand that, but really, it's just willful ignorance. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I'm willfully ignorant of many things, for example, evolution for the same reason.

LordShadowfire · 100+, M

@BibleData I don't think that's the same reason at all. We've got mountains of evidence for evolution, literally.

BibleData · M

@LordShadowfire It isn't different because evidence doesn't matter. Having evidence doesn't mean that you know something. There is evidence for virtually anything. There aren't that many things that we can know.