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.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/01/the-trouble-with-agnosticism/206646/
