I was very careful not to mention any specific gods either, merely giving a general criteria on what kind of god I would take
a gnostic atheist stance on.
Gnostic Atheist = Says there is no god Agnostic Atheist = Or weak Atheism.
The extreme stances would be
the gnostic atheist who is convinced that God can't exist and the gnostic theist that is convinced that God has to exist and knows a bunch of details about Him.
A gnostic atheist is one who would say «I know gods do not exist.»
A gnostic atheist, on the other hand, says that there are no god (s), period.
There can be people who are agnostic atheist, agnostic theist,
gnostic atheist and gnostic theist.
Or, you could just call such a person a «
gnostic atheist», one who doesn't believe in a god and thinks that his non-belief can be proved.
And there are probably a lesser number of hard core
Gnostic Atheists (or true Atheists).
There are
Gnostic Atheists (better known as Militant to some) and I believe they are lying also.
Not exact matches
Since you seem to be mixed up about what Agnostic /
Gnostic and
Atheist / Theist mean I will repeat so you don't confuse those terms again.
I would argue that many if not most people who call themselves Christians are
gnostic theists, while most people who call themselves
atheists are agnostic
atheists.
This has devolved into a shorthand: I am a Christian / Muslim / Pagan / Hindu et al (Most times means: I am a
gnostic theist); I am an
atheist (Most time means: I am an agnostic
atheist); I am agnostic (Most times means: I am an agnostic theist).
An
atheist gnostic is someone who does not believe in gods, and who thinks that we can know that gods do not exist.
Whether you are arrogant or ignorant,
Gnostic or
Atheist, it simply does nt matter!
Gnostic - 100 % certainity; Agnosticism - maybe, maybe not; Theist - believes in god;
Atheist doesn't believe in god.
Even our secularists, indeed even our professed
atheists, are more
Gnostic than humanist in their ultimate presuppositions.
Using this definition, most people are somewhere along the
atheist / theist continuum and along the agnostic /
gnostic continuum.
I get what you are saying with the
atheist / thieist and
gnostic / agnostic terms and I think I woudn't be in any disagreement with the ideas you are convering.
42.2 % no religious affiliation, including agnostic,
atheist, Humanist, Darwinism, and «no religion» 19.0 % Catholic 17.4 % Protestant 6.9 % Buddhist 4.4 % other Christian, not identified elsewhere 2.8 % Sikh 1.8 % Jewish 1.7 % Muslim 1.7 % Christian Orthodox 1.4 % Hindu 0.5 % other religions, including Aboriginal spirituality, Pagan, Wicca, Unity, New Thought, Pantheist, Scientology, Rastafarian, New Age,
Gnostic, Satanist 0.3 % Bahá «í, Eckankar, Jains, Shinto, Taoist, Zoroastrian and Eastern religions not identified elsewhere