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It deals with the lack of knowledge of spiritual things.

Being gnostic would be like saying I know god is xyz.
Being agnostic would be like saying I don't know what god is.

Agnosticism is the idea that no one can prove a god exists, yet no one can prove one does not exist either

It is, as Mage said, a lack of knowledge. Which isn't what it sounds like. It's kind of hard to explain. It's like we accept that we're ignorant of whatever spiritual being(s) there is/are or is/are not there, and therefore have no opinion due to our self-proclaimed lack of true knowledge. You could say that this line is our slogan:
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." -Socrates
So basically, it's like we have no religion, not even lack of faith like Atheism. It's kind of like, I know that I don't know.
Whoa, that sounded kind of confusing.

Being an Agnostic myself, what it means to me is this:

I choose not to practice any religion because no religion can offer proof of the existence of their respective deity. I do not attempt to refute the existence of said deities, and I remain open to the possibility that they do exist.

Thanks greene that helped a lot more than the encyclopedia sized wiki article.

Here's a video I did it covers the definitions of both atheist and agnostic. Sorry for the sound I have a crappy system for that and I'm not a very good speaker.

Atheist or Agnostic

No problem Kyo!

Thanks greene that helped a lot more than the encyclopedia sized wiki article.

I know but usually the sources are cited so I use that as a reference and thank you to you guys to

For further reference, wikipedia is useless crap(no offense to the site or anything). It's unreliable; anyone can edit it, you know.

Here's my take:

God may or may not exist. I believe at the moment that he does exist, but I can be swayed otherwise. You prove that he doesn't, with definite proof, I'll believe you. I would then become atheist. If you prove definitely that he does, I'll think that my hunch was right all along.

As for religion, no. Just no.

Agnostics are generally people who don't quite have the courage to denounce religion and call themselves atheists.

I consider myself more of an antitheist

You're thinking of cults.

*Goes and makes Wikipedia full of typos that if read in order spell out bad words*

You're thinking of cults.