In the current freethinker discourse, agnosticism and atheism are considered to be independent properties—“gnostic” meaning “believing knowledge is possible” and “agnostic” meaning “believing knowledge is impossible”. There was a very active agnostic theist poster on the forum then known as the Internet Infidels Discussion Board when I was a regular, for example.
Even if this were not true, changing the definition of the word “atheism” merely means that the word no longer describes the people you are disagreeing with—not that their opinions must correspond to the new word.
In the current freethinker discourse, agnosticism and atheism are considered to be independent properties—“gnostic” meaning “believing knowledge is possible” and “agnostic” meaning “believing knowledge is impossible”. There was a very active agnostic theist poster on the forum then known as the Internet Infidels Discussion Board when I was a regular, for example.
Even if this were not true, changing the definition of the word “atheism” merely means that the word no longer describes the people you are disagreeing with—not that their opinions must correspond to the new word.
(If you are a YouTube fan, QualiaSoup’s “Lack of belief in gods” is a pretty good overview.)