The moral vacuum of agnosticism

So we all know people who say: I am a spiritual person, not a religious person. Which is kind of like saying, I want to believe and hope in a higher force, but I don't believe there are any hard rules about right and wrong. A lot of my liberal friends are of this mindset.

And yet, these people do kind of live their lives by a sort of moral code, seeking to tell the truth, most of the time, not to steal or cheat, most of the time, not to gossip or slander, mostly. And, they do get passionate about certain political positions.

But at the root of it, they have nothing they can articulate about what is their standard for right and wrong, their criteria for living and believing a certain way.

This is called a vacuum. And, nature abhors a vacuum.