Agnosticism and Secular Buddhism
I believe that the agnostic view lies at the heart of the secular approach to Buddhism. Generally, agnosticism is understood in its religious context, as a middle alternative between theism and atheism, asserting that the existence of God is unknowable and therefore not a subject of priority. The origins of agnosticism date back to ancient India, first found in the Rigveda, and pertain to the unanswerable questions of how the universe and the gods were created. Agnosticism was also a…