Unpopular Neutrality

      As disparaged as it is in this day and age where you're got to be "strongly for" or "strongly against" every single darned thing, one of the great advantages to being agnostic is that when a friend or acquaintance shares something they believe their faith or deity wants people to do or say, or not do and so on, I can smile, respond, "You might be right," and mean it.

      That is not to say I'm going to go along; I have made my own deal with my own ethics and my own conscience, which I'll abide by.  But I have no magic insights into the infinite; for all I know, you might be right. Mark Twain and I have our own opinions about imponderables; they don't invalidate yours and vice versa.