What do you call someone who is not sure if they're an agnostic?

And I'm serious here.

Maybegnostic?

How about "unaffliated"? or a "searcher" or something....?

Dunno....

asks me and I say "I'm not sure but I think I'm agnostic." They look at me like I'm an idiot (which is another discussion of some relevance but not here).

I kind 'a like Maybegnostic. It kind of rolls off my tongue now that I practice it a bit.

since it generally means somebody who is courageous enough to question all the Sunday school stuff they got fed when they were kids.

As my husband reminds me, the definition of gnostic is "having the belief of the knowledge of god". Agnostic means you don't believe you can know god.
Theism means you believe in a god or gods. Atheism means you don't believe in a god or gods.

If I were you, I'd probably go ahead and call myself Agnostic since you don't seem to know if there is a god or not, but don't want to say yes or know - err - on edit, make that a "no".
So, if it really matters that much to you that you have to identify yourself with some sort of belief but don't want to commit or use a term that the mainstream Religious types don't seem to understand anymore, call yourself a "seeker". It doesn't mean you have to "know" or "not know" anything, just that you are on the path to figuring out who you are.

If you want to be more "specific" without being specific, you might also identify yourself with Buddhism - Buddhists seem to come in all flavors, from self-proclaimed Christian or Sufi Buddhists to traditional Polytheistic Buddhists to standard temple-going Buddhists to "New Age" and Alien-Brotherhood believing Buddhists to Atheist Buddhists.
There's also Deism. That belief has a been very strong tradition in the US in the past. It allows for a Creator, but doesn't require that you have a personal knowledge of it. And you can spend your time quoting Ben Franklin, Henry David Thoreau and Thomas Jefferson.

Good luck with your personal dilemma.

Haele

I go to a Unitarian church from time to time so I guess I am a seeker, it just seems there should be more to everything than I'm really finding. I've always thought that I'm the kind of person who really wants to believe but for some reason doesn't believe or not.

I am always amazed at how many people claim to "know" things that I find so mysterious and unknowable. I guess I would put atheists in that category as well as fundamentalists. Me, I'm just sittin' here clueless.

Some atheists claim to "know". Most of us don't, we just haven't seen any reason to believe.

So please don't lump us in with fundies.

that are so adamantly atheist that they just want to convince believers. I just don't see any reason for that kind of certainty, or for that matter, any reason to try and put down a belief that is very important to someone. It certainly doesn't get you anywhere positive in my estimation.

I've never run into a proselytizing atheist.

What I keep running into are religious believers who see Atheism as a mirror image of their own belief system. If they go around grabbing people by the lapels trying to Do Conversion, they assume atheists must do the same.

You may define "proselytizing" as defending ourselves when we're attacked, but I don't.

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