Thy Word is Truth

President pro-tem Obama stated that he was "agnostic" when it comes to raising taxes on taxpayers earning less than $250,000 per year, which is just about everyone in the United States who isn't Bill Gates or Al Gore.  A funny choice of words, even Freudian, perhaps:  "Agnostic," an ancient Greek term, literally means "without knowledge," and usually refers to a supposed inability to know whether a Supreme Being exists.  It developed as a response to Gnosticism, a sect which claimed superior knowledge based upon secret, hidden wisdom. 
Oddly enough, since most common English language derives from Latin terms and not the Greek, he very accurately stated that, as far as taxation (of the "middle class") is concerned, he is, in his own terms, an ignoramus.  Truer words were never uttered.