10 Facts About Agnosticism

Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable.

Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern.

Agnosticism's agnosticism was not compatible with forming a belief as to the truth, or falsehood, of the claim at hand.

Agnosticism is not to be confused with religious views opposing the ancient religious movement of Gnosticism in particular; Huxley used the term in a broader, more abstract sense.

Agnosticism was associated with Victorian Freethinkers and the organization the British Secular Union.

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Agnosticism edited the Secular Review from 1882; it was renamed Agnostic Journal and Eclectic Review and closed in 1907.

Agnosticism calls upon his readers to "stand on their own two feet and look fair and square at the world with a fearless attitude and a free intelligence".

Agnosticism was a temporary mindset in which one rigorously questioned the truths of the age, including the way in which one believed God.

Agnosticism blames the exclusion of reasoning from religion and ethics for dangerous pathologies such as crimes against humanity and ecological disasters.

Agnosticism asserted that agnosticism is a choice of comfort, pride, dominion, and utility over truth, and is opposed by the following attitudes: the keenest self-criticism, humble listening to the whole of existence, the persistent patience and self-correction of the scientific method, a readiness to be purified by the truth.