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Agnostic means you admit you don't know, but what you personally believe is true isn't something you can completely remove. You will ultimately live your life as if one of those positions were true. You don't have to hate religions or act as an antitheist (the name commonly used to describe Gnostic Theists), you just have to not believe there is a god personally. That's ALL the word atheist means. Not believing there is a god. It's not even the belief that there is no god. That requires evidence, which as you rightly said, cannot be supplied. It's the neutral position, the "You haven't met your burden of proof, so I must disbelieve your claim" position. I hold the same position for anyone who can prove a god doesn't exist.
To take this another way, do you believe there is any kind of god? Do you consider this possibility before acting? Does the possibility effect your actions in ANY WAY? Because if not, your position is either that you don't believe, but you know it's impossible to know, or you don't care what this god could potentially see you doing (Keeping in mind, a general trend of gods is their dislike of arbitrary things, like eating pork)
EDIT: This video should sum up what I'm trying to say.
To take this another way, do you believe there is any kind of god? Do you consider this possibility before acting? Does the possibility effect your actions in ANY WAY? Because if not, your position is either that you don't believe, but you know it's impossible to know, or you don't care what this god could potentially see you doing (Keeping in mind, a general trend of gods is their dislike of arbitrary things, like eating pork)
EDIT: This video should sum up what I'm trying to say.