Are you an Atheist, an Agnostic, or a Theist?

I'd say I'm a Agnostic Atheist. Anything is possible, I just don't believe that God could create the earth in 7 days, like, where did he come from? And if Jesus died for our sins why does everyone still commit them? The bible is full of hypocrisies and I'm pretty sure there's a whole section saying how multiple people lived to be 600+, which is not humanily possible. None of it makes sense to me. You don't need God to be a good person, you just need good morals. I know PLENTY of "Christians" who sin everyday, who lie, who cheat, who dont believe in equality. The whole concept of religion maddens me.

 

I also am going to say that I am an agnostic atheist as well. I used to be Christian, but recently I have had a change of heart. Some of it was due to the amount of hate withen my old church (I'm not saying that all churches teach hate.. I'm just saying that my old church did.) The rest of it was that I went off to college and realized that I really did not believe in God anymore.

 

Atheist. Anti-religion.

 

I am a theist and I, personally, believe in the mono-omni god that is most common in the "main" religions. However, I do not agree with the notion that one religion must, nor is, even able to assess the wishes of god. After all, we are all naturally biased arent we?


As far as creation... I just find the idea that everything simply fell into place no less of plausible than the ideal of a high power. Way to many coincidences would have had to occur for humans to just happen about. However, I still can understand the point of view of Atheists. I just believe otherwise :/.

 

Im a Theist

So after watching that clip, that makes me a Gnostic Theist, couldnt care less what the bible said tbh

soooooooooooooooo true that could be said in reverse too, being an atheist doesnt not take away the fact that there are alot of immoral people out there on that side too.

 

I'm actually curious, though, as to why you are "Anti-religion". I completely understand why many atheist are, religion is a large cause of conflict and seperation amoungst people. However, history seems to want to show us that this is in human nature as it is seen in ultimately every difference man has between each other.

I see why some would rather not have it, but would we not just find something else to fight about?


No offensive of course. Nor is this only addressed to Rid. Just interested in some other opinions.

 

You'd have to define what "God" is supposed to mean before I can definitively say "atheist" or "agnostic."

see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theological_noncognitivism

 

I'm an agnostic atheist.

 

Ahahah, I like her.

I guess that means I'm a gnostic theist!

 

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Well this is her again saying she is Spiritual, but to me it doesnt make sense that she can be spiritual and an Atheist at the same time, mostly because I identify as Spiritual BUT to me it doesnt make sense how you can be spiritual and not believe in God,
Because to me Spirituality is proof that God exists, just seems weird to me.

 

I'm not going to listen to that right now because I'm in a room with other people, but I'm going to assume she's explaining this:

Pantheism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


If you define "God" as meaning "anthropomorphic deity with singular consciousness" (as many people do), then pantheism is technically an "atheistic" position.


If she's not talking about that I apologize for bringing it up and merely say that "spirituality" is a very subjective term - so it's just a manner of semantics.

 

I'm a Gnostic Theist I truly believe there is a god. Being gay hasn't changed my religion one bit.

 

Religion is awful. Indoctrinating people into a specific way of living from a young age, usually by threatening them that they will suffer for eternity if they don't fall in line, is a terrible practice. And then, as you mentioned, a great majority of humanity's problems are a direct result of religion. The salt-in-the-wound is that the doctrines the religions revolve around are at best arbitrary, and at worst absolutely stupefying and intrinsically nonsensical.

Personal 'spirituality,' or whatever you want to call it, gets a pass from me as long as you aren't trying to convert others, and came to your own beliefs under your own conviction(i.e. you weren't taught them).


"However, history seems to want to show us that this is in human nature as it is seen in ultimately every difference man has between each other.
I see why some would rather not have it, but would we not just find something else to fight about?"

History also teaches us that bacterial infections are very good at killing people. That doesn't mean we just say "well there's no point developing an antibiotic for this strain because another one will fill its place."
And even if we did find something else to fight about in a post-religion world (which is, of course, conjecture) at least the two sides would be based on reality and could be resolved through logic rather than vicious slaughter.