I once knew a kid in high school who was agnostic claiming that he was having fun sitting on the fence watching the atheists and the religious people duke it out. We all kind of rolled our eyes at him, because in the end he poked fun at the religious people just as much but wanted some sort of title to make himself different and special. There was also recently a TV show where one of the characters who was agnostic had some health problems and started lashing out at the other character's faith with the conclusion that though he did not believe in a "god" he actually had made himself a god in his own sight and could not handle it when his god got sick.
In both these cases the individual believed that they could just sit on the fence and not care, but in the end their actions showed that they believed in one side more than the other. Or as Christ describes them in the words of Luke 11:23:
23 He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.
The image that I was taught as a little kid is that you are on an escalator moving down due to the fallen world we live in and our natural tendencies. As long as you are walking up, you're making progress towards God or at least are staying neutral. Once you stop walking though, stop "caring" or working towards something better, you start going down. The message of this analogy is that you can't sit on the fence. You might not be ready or inclined yet to believe in God or accept his gospel, but if you decided that you're not going to be involved you're just going to be dragged down.
The truth is that we are all involved, if not by our own choice then by the fact that God and Satan are already fighting over our souls. Our heart is a battle ground with daily victories and loses, waiting to be conquered every second by either the imprisonment of the Devil or the liberty of Christ. It is our choice who we'll let win.
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