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What is your religious position?

gnostic atheist - I know for certain that there are no gods.
148 (16.2%)
gnostic monotheist - I know for certain that only one specific god exists.
84 (9.2%)
gnostic polytheist - I know for certain that there is more than one god.
4 (0.4%)
gnostic pantheist - I know for certain that that everything is god.
12 (1.3%)
gnostic deist - I know for certain that there is a god that started the universe but does not actively meddle with it or us.
6 (0.7%)
agnostic atheist - I do not know for certain, but I think there are no gods.
257 (28.2%)
agnostic monotheist - I do not know for certain, but I think only one specific god exists.
20 (2.2%)
agnostic polytheist - I do not know for certain, but I think there is more than one god.
4 (0.4%)
agnostic pantheist - I do not know for certain, but I think that everything is god.
24 (2.6%)
agnostic deist - I do not know for certain, but I think there is a god that started the universe but does not actively meddle with it or us.
36 (4%)
ignostic atheist - While the concepts of god(s) are meaningless, it is likely that there are no gods.
81 (8.9%)
ignostic monotheist - While the concepts of god(s) are meaningless, it is likely that only one specific god exists.
2 (0.2%)
ignostic polytheist - While the concepts of god(s) are meaningless, it is likely that there is more than one god.
1 (0.1%)
ignostic pantheist - While the concepts of god(s) are meaningless, it is likely that that everything is god.
10 (1.1%)
ignostic deist - While the concepts of god(s) are meaningless, it is likely that there is a god that started the universe but does not actively meddle with it or us.
7 (0.8%)
apnostic atheist - I don't care if there are any gods, but I guess there are no gods.
36 (4%)
apnostic monotheist - I don't care if there are any gods, but I guess only one specific god exists.
1 (0.1%)
apnostic polytheist - I don't care if there are any gods, but I guess there is more than one god.
0 (0%)
apnostic pantheist - I don't care if there are any gods, but I guess that everything is god.
7 (0.8%)
apnostic deist - I don't care if there are any gods, but I guess there is a god that started the universe but does not actively meddle with it or us.
7 (0.8%)
Any type of henotheist - There (may be/is only) more than one god, but I think of only one specific god.
6 (0.7%)
I am a god!  [checks self in mirror and grins]
82 (9%)
Missionary.
28 (3.1%)
So! Many! Choices! (Karma Sutra)
48 (5.3%)

Total Members Voted: 579

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Offline Mr. Blackwell

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Re: What is your religious position?
« Reply #609 on: September 14, 2012, 07:20:11 PM »
I just realized that 24 people voted the same way I did[1]....WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?!!

 1. agnostic pantheist
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Re: What is your religious position?
« Reply #610 on: September 14, 2012, 09:01:59 PM »
yeah, but after a while you get bored and build walls around them and see how long it takes for them to starve to death......


holy crap, I just figured out sub-Saharan Africa!!!
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Re: What is your religious position?
« Reply #611 on: September 14, 2012, 11:13:47 PM »
Quote from: Garja on September 14, 2012, 09:01:59 PM
yeah, but after a while you get bored and build walls around them and see how long it takes for them to starve to death......

Made me a nice grave yard that way and laughed as they constantly pissed themselves and passed out while standing up....is that sick?
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Re: What is your religious position?
« Reply #612 on: January 25, 2013, 03:05:41 AM »
Astreja,

This is a continuing topic. Who cares if it's old. You may get a reply, then again...

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Re: What is your religious position?
« Reply #613 on: April 24, 2013, 04:25:43 AM »
Not only am I a 7 on the Dawkins scale, but I don't see why any atheist would not be such (if not a 7, at least a 6.999... recurring). If you know there are no leprechauns, fairies or rock people (and that if we found evidence of something like them, we still wouldn't associate real-life facts with creatures of myth any more than we associate a picture of Jesus on toast with a real Jesus), and you understand gods as being mythical creatures, then you should also know there are no gods.

Even if we did find out that the universe has a creator, it would be an entity on its own right, with its own properties, not a mythical creature with human-invented properties.

To use an example to illustrate what I mean, we found out that sticking needles in people can have beneficial effects. But this does not prove or even count as evidence that acupuncture as a belief system, with its own pseudo-scientific premises, structure, etc is correct. It only proves that sticking needles in people can have beneficial effects. That is the only factual conclusion. Acupuncture was made up far before these experiments and, even if you assume that the phenomenon in question was the origin of acupuncture in some way, has no relation to that data.

Likewise, if a being came down to us and could rearrange the stars to spell its name, and we confirmed that this was no illusion of any sort (except of course projecting 3D space into a 2D image), I wouldn't assume that an imaginary entity "YHWH" has somehow sprung into existence, leaping from our minds to reality, and taking the exact form that we have imagined. That's not how reality works. Imagination is contained within our minds, it does not affect reality directly, only indirectly through our actions.

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Re: What is your religious position?
« Reply #614 on: May 03, 2013, 10:58:36 AM »
I'm an Agnostic Christian.

What is it ? This is a person who don't know if Christianity is real or not.
I hesitate between Atheism and Christianity.
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Re: What is your religious position?
« Reply #615 on: May 03, 2013, 11:16:18 AM »
Hi there viocjit, nice of you to drop in!

The two don't really represent different sides of the same coin. Christianity is simply the belief in Jesus as the son of god of the bible (subject to, at a minimum, denomination-specific interpretation of said book), while atheism is the lack of belief in god of any sort.

If you are, in fact, an atheist, it will eventually become clear, if and when you realize that you don't actually believe a god. In the meantime. join in any of the discussions going on let us get to know you, and you, us. Welcome!
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