[Poll] What do you consider yourself to be religiously?

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pragmyterian

I'm Baha'i! ^_^

I'd like to describe myself as "All-but-militant"-Atheist against all forms of organised terrorism...sorry, "religion".

First: Most Jewish people are "Hebrew" - as most people who have studied religion know.

You cannot combine Atheism and Agnosticism, even if we usually go "hand in hand" in most situations. Atheism is deterministic and says clearly "There IS NO god", Agnosticists are "We think there MAY/MAY NOT be a god, but are otherwise as rational as the atheists", that is a clear distinction between the two.




1. I have never had any negative experiences with ASD's since i never knew i had any of it and so far everyone thinks i have been "Mostly normal, but there is something odd about him and he is not social."

2. I have been brought up in a semi-religious environment, my mother was (emphasise WAS) a believer and my father was (again) a "on-paper-christian", we only go to church to be polite when someone gets married or dies.

3. Fits me spot on. Religion belongs in the dark ages, humanity do not need more war or oppression.




Atheist here and i agree 100% with your "safety blanket" view too of religious people. They cannot argue rationally and never score any logical points and whenever they are criticized they scream "racism" (which is not true, and shows how illiterate they are) or thinks - just like you said - that we are "hostile". This is also why i hold extremely little respect for religious people.

I think we've done this before, however I realize we need an A/S/L/R occasionally just because we're into that kind of thing.

I was raised catholic, became agnostic, gave my all into trying to figure out reality as separate from what anyone had told me thus far - looked into Buddhism, looked into Gnosticism, looked into Kaballah, came to largely atheistic conclusions for a long time but even after a while those were shot down. As of right now I'm back to a practicing and believing Roman Catholic position.

Not peolpe who are religious have been taught to be religous
I concluded that there must a god after 3 years of contemplation how the world came to be.
later I decided that the cristen god is the true god, then my theory of all god being the same.

I now a lot of people who came to religion trhough logic.

you have a problem with religios extremists, and those I have a problem with...
because like you have shown, they give peple like me a bad name.

I'd have to argue that there's an equally present atheistic security blanket where, by definition if Occam's Razor solves everything and anecdotal evidence is worthless - its a debate won by the atheists hands down whether their right or wrong just because they're not held accountable for their handicaps, mainly on the grounds that if their anti-religion that they can't be expected to have a strong counter-narrative. Theists can just as easily take that arguement off the table from the standpoint that God's existence is not a hypothesis that can be disputed by science, particularly since the notion is that science explores the mechanics and inner-workings of what he created and therefore really can't be used to approve or debunk him - atheists believe that science is true, many theists believe that both science and a higher power or life hereafter are true. That's not apologism either, its been with them - at least Christianity and maybe others - since the renaissance or earlier.

In the end math people will see the anecdotal evidence in their reality and make either one faith stance or another - which is that they choose atheism, deism, or theism - all of the above are building towers on beach sand considering the information available as well as what we may well never be able to know. Then again, its what we all kind of have to do - ie. we're human, its part of identity to need a greater understanding of the world around us.

I was raised evangelical fundamentalist Christian, but switched to Gnostic, then Quaker. I like quaker philosophy, ethics and practice but I decided that Christianity cannot be correct.

I am now essentially a Theravada Buddhist. ( I cannot accept reincarnation though.) I often just describe myself as an atheist.

I personally am an agnostic, but NOT an agnostic theist. Seemingly, many people (not here, specifically) get the two confused.

I don't believe it's possible to prove the existence or lack of existence of a god. I think if it was possible it would have been done by now. So without proof we're left with faith, and the only question is how that faith is manifested. I don't really care how other people express their faith, so long as they don't harm anyone, and I don't understand the hostility some people have toward those who believe differently. In any case, I categorize myself as a non-religious humanist.

I am a Hindu but am very open to Buddhism and like certain features of Sikhism and Baha'i

Asking to disprove something that cannot even be detected in the first place is ret*d. The same thing can be said about Santa Claus, Russel's teapot, the dragon in my garage and so on.

I am a Christian, Calvinist, aka Reformed (I would also add the word Evangelical in its original sense)