Both Uses of
agnostic
in
This Side of Paradise
- I act as an escape from the weariness of agnosticism, and I think I'm the only man who knows how his staid old mind is really at sea and longs for a sturdy spar like the Church to cling to.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- I confess that the war instead of making me orthodox, which is the correct reaction, has made me a passionate agnostic.†
Chpt 1.4agnostic = someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something -- especially belief in God
Definition:
a person who believes they lack true knowledge about the existence of God (but believes that God might exist)
or more rarely: someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something
or more rarely: someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something
An agnostic is sometimes contrasted to an atheist who is firmly convinced that God does not exist.