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Nope. The opposite of love is simply NOT love or a-love to use the greek prefix. "A-love" can be indifference, hate or any other feeling that does not express love.
With theism and atheism it is the same. Atheism is simply NOT theism. So those who claim to know that there are no gods as well as those who state that one can not know whether there exist gods or not (agnostics) are atheists. The one thing they have in common is a lack of a belief in god(s). Theism/atheism has to do with belief in god(s) or a lack thereof, whereas agnosticism deals with the lack of knowledge (from gnosticism) we have about the supernatural. There can be people who claim they don't know whether their god exists or not but they believe nonetheless. That would be an agnostic theist, though I acknowledge that they are very rare. Most theists claim that they just know that their deity exists.

For further clarification you can read my post #63.

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The opposite of love is indifference...very good--agnosticism(neutral)!

Would I be right in thinking that English isn't your first language? Agnosticism is the opposite of gnosticism. Gnosticism is not belief in God, per se, it is belief in esoteric knowledge (which can include God, although several centuries ago the Gnostics were a small, heretical Christian sect, persecuted and sometimes executed by the mainstream). Gnosticism is the belief that we can, and probably do, know the truth about what lies beyond the material plane - and some gnostics believe that the truth is a combination of world religions (progressive revelation, that kind of thing), other subscribe to one particular religion and believe in one answer (the Christian God, the Jewish one, the Muslim one, the Hindu pantheon, the wonderful world of Wicca, etc). An agnostic believes either that nothing is known - ie, we don't know the truth yet, none of the existing world religions ring true - or that we can't be sure about what is known - so, we might have the truth available to us, but we have no way of telling that it is the truth.

Atheists(negative) are God Haters...my original post!

You're going round in circles. It really is most amusing. I ask again, how is it possible to hate something that doesn't exist? To hate God, one would have to believe in him. One who believed in and hated God would be... a Satanist, presumably. A worshipper of the Fallen Angel. I don't believe in him, either (The Usual Suspects not withstanding).