| agnostic | one who believes the existence of God cannot be proved or disproved |
| atheist | one who assumes there are no gods or divinities but will accept the possibility should extraordinary evidence occur |
Examples |
An agnostic may participate in organized religion... just in case. |
| Some Marxists were atheists who believed that organized religion encouraged oppressed peoples to endure their hard lives in order to be rewarded after death in heaven. |