The Paradox of Divine Inaccessibility
One can find the answer to your question by noting that agnostics operate under the belief that knowledge of God is fundamentally inaccessible to the human mind. As stated in one source, “Others – they are called agnostics (from the Greek word ‘gnosis’ – knowledge; agnostics – ‘those who do not know’) – believe that we can never know whether God exists or not, yet they think and act as if God did not exist” (source: link txt). In other words, even when they have the freedom of choice, agnostics consciously refuse to acknowledge or seek confirmation of the divine, based on the assumption of the absolute unknowability of the Deity.Furthermore, another source employs a vivid metaphor to emphasize the difference between the active search for truth and passive denial: “The agnostic simply refuses to know God, whereas the theologian, ‘working’ through the apophatic method, is actually working. The agnostic turns away from the sun, claiming that even the existence of the sun is unproven and that it is entirely pointless to gaze upon it. The theologian, however, upon seeing the sun, acknowledges it and to some extent is even illuminated by it. And so, he kind of takes some colored glasses and looks at the sun through them. Of course, each pair of glasses darkens and limits the sun’s brightness. But, first of all, it would be simply impossible to look at the sun without the glasses” (source: link txt, page: 6626). This analogy illustrates that the refusal to seek genuine experience and understanding of God leaves agnostics detached from real knowledge, even though the very possibility of choice enables them to take a different path.Thus, despite having the right to choose, so few agnostics speak the truth about God because their stance is rooted in a conscious refusal to attempt grasping the essence of God. This stems from the belief that true knowledge of God is beyond the reach of the human mind, which in turn leads them to act as if God does not exist.