I just see it as something that each person gets to resolve themselves. I only get irritated about a person's beliefs if they try to convert me to their beliefs. Other than that it doean't bother me and doesn't really affect me.

Atheist, agnostic, deist, or believer, I am more concerned with how they treat me than what hey believe. Their person beliefs aren't a part of my life.

Agnostic because- I don't know what I don't know. I don't know what I've yet to experience.

I have to agree. Few people really know what many of the overloaded words commonly politicized in society really mean. As Frank Luntz says "it's not what you say it's what they hear". Most people have an automatic emotional reaction to the word "Atheist" to mean "radical", "militant", "actively hostile to religion". "agnostic" invokes reactions along the lines of "unsure", "don't care" or "none of my business".

No. Agnostic is NOT 'softboiled' Atheist.

Agnostic means who acknowledge that you have no knowledge without evidence to prove one way or another. Atheism means you have concluded that is no god.

Agnostic and Atheist are the same thing - Both are waiting for any proof of the existence of God.

Agnostics have no proof that there is or isn"t a such thing as a god or high power. Diests believe in some unspecified higher power. Athiests are not agnostic but do not believe that there ia any such entity as a god.

It irritates you when someone says they're agnostic?
Huhhhmmm....
Why did you sign up on agnostic.com? Do you like being irritated?

Just as a religious fanatic cannot prove the existence of God, how can a "hard boiled" atheist prove the non-existence, beyond any doubt, of God? Neither my ego nor my knowledge of the universe or universes are large enough to say with complete certainty that I completely understand what is "out there".

Sting: "we share the same biology regardless of ideology"
Scorpions: "we all live under the same sun, why can't we live as one" John Lennon: ". . . and the world will live as one"