" one can either believe in rebirth or not believe in it. But there is a third alternative: that of agnosticism—to acknowledge in all honesty that one does not know. One does not have either to assert it or to deny it; one neither has to adopt the literal versions presented by tradition nor fall into the other extreme of believing that death is a final annihilatioṇ This, I feel, could provide a good Buddhist middle way for approaching the issue today. "

― Stephen Batchelor , Secular Buddhism: Imagining the Dharma in an Uncertain World