The relation between agnosticism and atheism

On the axis of the problem of God, people are roughly divided into three groups, one who believes in God, does not believe in God, or has no knowledge about the existence or absence of God and decides to suspend his decision. These are called theist, atheist, and agnostic, respectively. However, often these classifications cannot be separated by a sharp line. While a theistic person has an agnostic position in the sense of knowledge, he can continue the theist understanding in the sense of believing. In general, atheists are those who claim that God does not exist. But even though he defines himself as an atheist, there are those who think it is in fact the same agnostic to knowing God's existence. They live in the same way, as God does not exist in their lives, but they think that they will not be able to know whether God exist or not. Agnostics are also separated from these two groups. They are neither on the side of God nor on the side of its absence. They think that it is impossible for the human mind to reach any information on such a subject. Agnostics therefore often take decisions on suspension whether to believe in God or reject Him. Generally speaking, although agnosticism is described as different from atheism and theism as a result of these three classifications, it is in fact a close relation with atheism. They have the same idea that they have the attitude that as if there is no God. What they differ is that while atheism openly claims that God does not exist, agnosticism has no claim to the existence or absence of God. This is in fact a very important difference. As a result, a person can be an agnostic in epistemological sense-but an atheist at the same time in practical sense. In a similar way, he may be agnostic epistemological sense or the theist in practical sense. Agnosticism therefore has a close relationship with both of them and a difference from each of them. Keywords: Agnosticism, Atheism, God, Agnostic, Atheist, Faith.