Blind Azathoth posted...
Unless you're lumping agnostics in with atheists, I don't see the reasoning behind claiming either side of the debate is more open-minded than the other.
I'd imagine most agnostics are atheists, and vice versa. The terms are not mutually exclusive; they are answers to different questions, concerning one's worship or lack thereof of a deity (theism/atheism) and the certainty of one's knowledge (gnosticism/agnosticism). Most people who call themselves agnostic do not follow the tenets of any religion or worship a deity; they are atheists in that they lack religion but reject the label for whatever reason (usually because they've come to see it as pejorative or a mark of intolerance). And most people who call themselves atheists would admit that, however highly they doubt it, they don't know for certain there are no deities.
There are, of course, plenty of agnostic theists too -- people who say "I believe in God but I don't know for sure He exists" or "I believe there's some kind of divine force but I don't know what exactly" -- but, for various reasons, many religious people feel certain in their knowledge of God's existence. Alas, I don't have exact numbers handy.
Also, hay guys being a feminist is not the same thing as being a sexist.
Holy s***, this was a good post. It pre-empted almost everything I wanted to say. Listen to this guy.