'Agnostic,' retorted Aveling, was simply 'atheist' writ respectable, and 'atheist' was simply 'agnostic' writ aggressive.

Hence the phrase, tooth fairy agnostic.

And global capital is agnostic it has no loyalties.

This one was unexpected because I started the year as an agnostic, and by the end of the year, I became what a friend of mine calls a reverent agnostic, which I love.

About 20 percent are agnostic, and the rest could fairly be called atheists.

And then finally, we insist that the robots be agnostic to who their neighbors are.

I think that generally an 'agnostic' would be the most correct description of my state of mind.

Today, agnostic thinking is on the decline and humanity is equally enamoured of religion, science, knowledge and spirituality.

So, my friend is strictly agnostic about the tooth fairy, but it isn't very likely, is it? Like God.

I want to believe that we can be agnostic about this, that we can rise above all of this.

The list of things which we strictly have to be agnostic about doesn't stop at tooth fairies and teapots. It's infinite.

And this one was a big lesson because I was praying, giving these prayers of thanksgiving, which was odd for an agnostic.

Now, a friend, an intelligent lapsed Jew, who incidentally observed the Sabbath for reasons of cultural solidarity, describes himself as a tooth fairy agnostic.

6.1 Kevin Galåen's (born on 18 February 1987) parents are humanists and want the tuition of their son to have a non dogmatic, agnostic basis.

But we don't bother to say so, and this is why my friend uses tooth fairy agnostic as a label for what most people would call atheist.

With the passing of the era of agnostic philosophies, humanity is once again united in celebrating monotheism and belief in the Creator as the originator of existence.

Nonetheless, if we want to attract deep down atheists to come out publicly, we're going to have find something better to stick on our banner than tooth fairy or teapot agnostic.

Since he is an agnostic, his gift is not motivated by any belief that it will benefit him in an afterlife. What, then, does Buffett s life tell us about the nature of happiness?

I knew enough, that is, to know that I'd be a tourist in the Koran an informed one, an experienced one even, but still an outsider, an agnostic Jew reading some else's holy book.

So, what other words might be used to smooth the path, oil the wheels, sugar the pill? Darwin himself preferred agnostic and not only out of loyalty to his friend Huxley, who coined the term.

He won't call himself an atheist because it's, in principle, impossible to prove a negative, but agnostic on its own might suggest that God's existence was therefore on equal terms of likelihood as his non existence.

You would strictly have to be agnostic about whether there is a teapot in orbit about Mars, but that doesn't mean you treat the likelihood of its existence as on all fours with its non existence.

As far as Europe is concerned, she seems as agnostic as Sarkozy, who, like her, incarnates a new generation of post European leaders. In terms of values, Royal, too, seems to represent a rupture with May 1968, with her emphasis on discipline and family.

Like a happy and secure childhood, Confucian civilization bestowed upon its practitioners the self confidence to meet the challenge of the West. Since Confucianism was essentially an agnostic ideology, concerned with the management of the visible world, the post Confucians experienced little of the spiritual angst that afflicted Hindus, Muslims, and Christians in their collision with the materialism of industrial society.

Over the same 15 year period, financial markets have become unhinged, with a profusion of asset and credit bubbles leading to a series of crises that almost pushed the world economy into the abyss in 2008 2009. But rather than recognize, let alone respond to, pre crisis excesses, the Fed has remained agnostic about them, pointing out that bubble spotting is, at best, an imperfect science.

Most Indian politicians wear rings with stones tailored to specific planetary conjunctions that are providential for them, or designed to ward off malefic influences from planets unfavorably situated on their birth charts. Many swear it works for them others take the agnostic view that one has nothing to lose by indulging such beliefs, except the price of the ring a sort of Hindu version of Pascal s famous wager.

It has been roughly 300 years since religious people came to understand that being of a different faith, or being agnostic, did not disqualify one from public office. If the moral test that I endured stands, it means that Europe has come full circle agnostics are no longer willing to accept that being religious and having different moral views should not bar someone from holding an official post.