I love this passage, and I love the idea of "the deathbed leap of faith" (64). Ultimately, we are all forced to take a leap of faith in this life. It is the agnostics, however, who refuse to take this leap of faith. They do not have faith in God, and they do not have faith that there is no God. They merely exist, which is a horrible, ignorant way to live life. Everyone needs to believe in something, or a lack of something. It is human nature to question the existence of God, but I believe it is also human nature to eventually make a decision one way or the other. Agnostics go through all the years of their life lost. They sit, balancing on a fence and refuse to jump to the right or to the left. They are not completely human. They somehow and for some reason refuse to accept their humanity, and instead live in doubt. My 6th grade teacher always drilled into our heads that you have to stand for something or you'll fall for anything. Agnostics remind me of this quote. They stand for nothing, so they have no basis of belief upon which to base decisions. They live a life of confusion and inconsistency.