The Choices of James Lindsay, April 28, 2025. Introduction. In a recent post, I mentioned the

atheism of James Lindsay, and was subsequently informed by a reader that Lindsay had recently

rejected his former atheism and now considers himself to be an

agnostic. My informant said this. In a very recent interview, James Lindsay has said that he has

repented of his atheism, seeing it for the Marxism it is, and now is agnostic. And also, while he

doesn't know about the metaphysical, he is deeply convicted of the anthropological and

psychological truth of the Bible and the human condition. Three kinds of agnosticism. An agnostic is someone

who takes the position of not knowing what the ultimate reality is. The word is a compound word

coming from the Greek prefix of negation and the word gnosis, which means knowledge. An agnostic is therefore someone who does not know.

There are three varieties of agnostic. The first one is flippant. He says, I don't know and I don't

care to know. This is the epistemology of a frat boy who is distracted by kegars and girls.

The second kind of agnostic is the dogmatic agnostic. He is the one who says, I don't know, you don't know, and nobody can know.

As we shall see, this position is basically atheism, with a thin veneer of faux humility.

The third kind of agnostic is the seeker.

I don't know, but I sure wish I did.

Every form of professed agnosticism will at some point reduce to one of these. Let's say, for example, that someone tries this variation. I don't know, you don't know, but perhaps somebody else out there knows. That person is actually a seeker. Or someone professes to be a seeker, but cannot be prevailed upon to pay any attention to the issues. So he is a distracted agnostic, whether beer is involved or not.

So let's take each of these in turn. Distracted agnosticism. We should start with the person who just

doesn't care. He says, I don't know and I don't care. This person may call himself an agnostic,

but the thing driving him, the thing defining him, is not his lack of knowledge. He doesn't care for a reason, and that reason whatever it might be is the God of his operating

system.

Knowing the true God would bring in certain moral responsibilities that he would rather not

have to deal with.

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