“Agnosticism

“2127 Agnosticism assumes a number of forms. In certain cases the agnostic refrains from denying God; instead he postulates the existence of a transcendent being which is incapable of revealing itself, and about which nothing can be said. In other cases, the agnostic makes no judgment about God’s existence, declaring it impossible to prove, or even to affirm or deny.

“2128 Agnosticism can sometimes include a certain search for God, but it can equally express indifferentism, a flight from the ultimate question of existence, and a sluggish moral conscience. Agnosticism is all too often equivalent to practical atheism.”

Sure the Catholic Church doesn’t speak for all Christian, but their definition of agnosticism matches mine. Also, the Oxford English Dictionary defines agnostic as “a person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God.” That’s me.

You see, my wife is a practicing catholic. My children will all be baptized and I will not forbid — not that I would have the power to do it anyway — that they learn about religion. But *I* still maintain that there’s not way to be sure that god either exists or doesn’t.