Pupils will learn about other faith's marriage ceremonies including agnostics.
But those who, like the positivists, agnostics and sceptics, deny the possibility of metaphysics as a theory of the ultimate nature of things, are still obliged to retain philosophy as a theory of knowledge, in order to justify the asserted limitation or impotence of human reason.
On the other hand, not merely agnostics like Leslie Stephen but Christian theologians of the Left like Ernst Troeltsch regard it as the time when supernaturalism began decisively to go to pieces, and the " modern " spirit to assert its authority even over religion.
Momerie remarked, this would merely be "a definition of honesty; in that sense we ought all to be agnostics."
Humanists are atheists or agnostics and do not expect an afterlife.