I whenever anyone has said, they are an “agnostic atheist“ it always has struck me as oxymoronic, because atheism inherently has a positive worldview claim that God either definitely does not exist, or probably does not exist, and agnosticism as a worldview claim posits that we can’t know enough to make a positive or negative claim to the proposition of God’s existence. I understand people saying they are “agnostic on certain things”, but when they claim to be an “agnostic atheist” it seems as if it is just a cop out in order to take the burden of proof off of their worldview, so they can just say “I don’t know.”
Maybe I’m just misunderstanding or not well read within this area. Any good recommendations on books or papers on this subject?