I found an interesting piece yesterday in the Catholic Encyclopedia about the definitions and degrees of "agnostic" thought. Being fascinated with word origins and real meanings, I was quick to pick up on the fact that the modern tendency in many Christian circles to consider an "agnostic" to be the sworn enemy of all things good and right, especially God, is misguided.
My pen name here, in fact, is very similar to the term agnostic in meaning. Non Sicuro Pensatore means uncertain thinker, and the word agnostic literally translates to "without knowledge", and more practically means that there are some things about which it is not possible to possess certainty, such as the nature of God, or even the existence of such a supernatural reality, etc.
So it is not at all impossible or unlikely that one could readily grant that "faith" in God and afterlife with Him is fine, while at the same time stating that people should not presume to have any sort of certainty about what God is like, how a person should be "rightly related" to God, what God would require of man, etc.
The link to the article in the Catholic Encyclopedia is here:
NewAdvent.org
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