To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.
I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.