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TheRevengeofTW1ZTY
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28 Jun 2019, 5:09 pm

Are there any LGBT Aspies or NTs on WP who are not religious? Atheist, Agnostic, or otherwise?


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28 Jun 2019, 5:14 pm

I am bisexual, and I am an agnostic atheist.



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28 Jun 2019, 5:20 pm

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I am bisexual, and I am an agnostic atheist.

I have to ask, how can one be both agnostic and an atheist? :huh:

Atheists absolutely do not believe in God(s) or the afterlife.

Agnostics on the other hand think God and the afterlife may or may not be real.


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28 Jun 2019, 5:30 pm

I don’t believe in God, but I don’t think I can be entirely sure that there isn’t one. I don’t believe in a loving god that deserves to be worshipped. I think it’s possible that something out there got the universe rolling and then moved on.

In practice, I’m an atheist, but my atheism isn’t an absolute belief. I try to avoid thinking in absolutes these days.



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28 Jun 2019, 5:57 pm

Twilightprincess wrote:
I don’t believe in God, but I don’t think I can be entirely sure that there isn’t one. I don’t believe in a loving god that deserves to be worshipped. I think it’s possible that something out there got the universe rolling and then moved on.

In practice, I’m an atheist, but my atheism isn’t an absolute belief. I try to avoid thinking in absolutes these days.


Honestly I think what you described makes you 100% agnostic. :)


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28 Jun 2019, 6:39 pm

It’s very similar.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnostic_atheism

It’s agnosticism with an emphasis on atheism. There are also agnostic theists.



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28 Jun 2019, 6:48 pm

Twilightprincess wrote:
It’s very similar.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnostic_atheism

It’s agnosticism with an emphasis on atheism. There are also agnostic theists.

Oh ok. :)


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29 Jun 2019, 10:43 am

Left Catholicism behind as a teen (but it casts a long shadow), now somewhat similar to Twilightprincess in my lack of beliefs.



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29 Jun 2019, 6:45 pm

There's a school of thought that claims one can never detach oneself fully from a Catholic past. I once saw a play in London in the late 1970s called Once A Catholic by Mary O'Malley, which was based on this idea, as I recall. I haven't been part of a Catholic environment since the late 1960s, but I still feel some connection to it.


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29 Jun 2019, 6:51 pm

Is it because Catholicism is steeped in tradition and culture?


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29 Jun 2019, 11:05 pm

I'm bisexual and an atheist. I ditched religion back in my teens, raised in a fundamentalist household.



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30 Jun 2019, 2:47 am

I'm an agnostic atheist. I don't know if God exists or not. I'm guessing he doesn't, but if he does he's a cruel, sadistic bastard who gets his kicks from f*****g with people. He could kill me right now if he wants to, but he prefers to make me suffer.




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30 Jun 2019, 6:49 am

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:
I'm an agnostic atheist. I don't know if God exists or not. I'm guessing he doesn't, but if he does he's a cruel, sadistic bastard who gets his kicks from f*****g with people. He could kill me right now if he wants to, but he prefers to make me suffer.






I feel very much the same way. If the Abrahamic God really does exist, he is cruel and evil and most of his followers are real bastards.


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30 Jun 2019, 4:08 pm

Noca wrote:
I'm bisexual and an atheist. I ditched religion back in my teens, raised in a fundamentalist household.


What was your brand of fundamentalism, if you don’t mind me asking?

I was a Jehovah’s Witness. I’ve talked about that a lot on here, so you might already know that.



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30 Jun 2019, 4:38 pm

I was a Baptist. Like Blanche said on The Golden Girls "You can't forgive us Baptists" :lol:


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30 Jun 2019, 4:43 pm

TheRevengeofTW1ZTY wrote:
I was a Baptist. Like Blanche said on The Golden Girls "You can't forgive us Baptists" :lol:


Did your church speak out strongly against the LGBT community? Mine certainly did.

Some sects of Baptists can get really extreme.