My friend Bob was definitely an agnostic. He was also a Pagan, and publicly said he thought everyone was born a Pagan, but many were talked out of it along the way. Wilson believed in the multiple reality model as firmly as a Christian believes in the Bible... by which I mean only sometimes, usually when its most inconvenient, humans being the contrary animals they are. Wilson not only advised others to be agnostic about everything, he lived by that credo. He said Convictions Breed Convicts. He considered atheism to be as superstitious as any other certainty, and therefore wrong-headed or just plain stupid. However, an atheist has as much right to his brand of fantasy as any Catholic, Protestant or Jew. Not subscribing to any particular religion, he felt free to participate in any religion's rituals or ideology he wished as the spirit moved him; he was part of hundreds of Pagan rites, was married in a Buddhist wedding, celebrated traditional Christian holidays with gusto (and often drunken debauchery), and attended both Masses and Black Masses at one time or another. He had no problem donning the mantle of an Earth Religion adherent, a pantheist, a follower of the spirit of Christ, or a deterministic believer in a cause & effect clockwork universe at any time and according to WHAT WORKS for that moment and that purpose. Fundamentalists of any stripe would say if he doesn't have only one belief system he has none at all; he would say he has ALL of them, and proudly blow them a raspberry.