By Madalyn Murray O'Hair Charles Bradlaugh was the first militant Atheist in the history of Western civilization. Everyone in England knew Bradlaugh and his fight, and he raised the issue of Atheism to every person in public life as he sought allies. The intellectual community contained, at the time, Sir Thomas Huxley, and he coined the word agnostic in 1869 to keep from aligning himself with the hard-pressed Bradlaugh.
Agnostic followers are always allies of the church.
The false notion that anything is unknowable undermines science and reinforces theology. It inclines man to faith and induces men to trust religious doctrines. The church does not anathematize the agnostic and even the Roman Catholic church will accept the agnostic in its fold. But an inspection of that sentence leads one into accepting the logic of Huxley above. Therefore the Atheists live as if there were no god, no efficacy in prayer, and no life after death.