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The Trouble With Agnosticism

By The Daily Dish

Jan 18 2009, 12:46 PM ET

Maclin Horton quotes Benedict’s Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures:

Even if I throw in my theoretical lot with agnosticism, I am nevertheless compelled in practice to choose between two alternatives: either to live as if God did not exist or else to live as if God did exist. If I act according to the first alternative, I have in practice adopted an atheistic position and have made a hypothesis (which may also be false) the basis of my entire life...

John Schwenkler adds his own thoughts.



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