Are you religious?

[GTSRguy]

I myself an an athiest. My mom is religious, but my dad isnt. My mom is "lightly" religious.

Ive never had any anger or dislike torward religious people at all, but, my athiest freinds do. They argue all day long against religious people, and get really pissed off about the whole thing. I found this strange...why would i be angry that someone belived in God? Good for them. I hope they are happy, even thought i belive god isnt real - if they belive in him, hes as real as ever, right? I personally couldnt belive in god if i tried, it would be impossible. Even though my parents werent hard core religious - i was specilly taught and told there was a god and regularly went to sunday school and read the bible - i never belived; couldnt. But again, if people are religious i could care less and have zero desire to prove something to them.

 

[Aikouka]

I thought agnostic ment you dont belive in a god but belive that there might be one, or some higher power?

I'm going to be lazy and just copy Wikipedia's definition... 'cause I always worry that I misstate it:

Agnosticism is the view that the truth value of certain claims—especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claims—is unknown or unknowable.

Note that none of the above states that you do or do not believe in a god or multiple gods. You can be spiritual and be agnostic at the same time. I see the term "spiritual but non-religious" used a bit online, and I think that would be the right term to use for agnostic theists. They believe that there is some divine force, but they don't choose to subscribe to anyone's rigid guidelines of what defines said force.

 

[dank69]

I myself an an athiest. My mom is religous, but my dad isnt. My mom is "lightly" religous.

Ive never had any anger or dislike torward religous people at all, but, my athiest freinds do. They argue all day long against religous people, and get really pissed off about the whole thing. I found this strange...why would i be angry that someone belived in God? Good for them. I hope they are happy, even thought i belive god isnt real - if they belive in him, hes as real as ever, right? I personally couldnt belive in god if i tried, it would be impossible. Even though my parents werent hard core religous - i was specilly taught and told there was a god and regularly went to sunday school and read the bible - i never belived; couldnt. But again, if people are religous i could care less and have zero desire to prove something to them.

Dude, you spelled it right in the title...

 

[GTSRguy]

I am really bad at spelling

There i fixed my post

 

[Jaskalas]

Wish I could say I've never been inside a Church... but there was a wedding once....

 

[xanis]

This has not been done at least 100000 times already.

ftfy

To answer the OP's question: No, I am not religious at all. I do not believe in God.

 

[GTSRguy]

I'm going to be lazy and just copy Wikipedia's definition... 'cause I always worry that I misstate it:



Note that none of the above states that you do or do not believe in a god or multiple gods. You can be spiritual and be agnostic at the same time. I see the term "spiritual but non-religious" used a bit online, and I think that would be the right term to use for agnostic theists. They believe that there is some divine force, but they don't choose to subscribe to anyone's rigid guidelines of what defines said force.

Well thats what i intended it to mean, i looked at the wiki def quick before adding it. Yes means i belive in a god and religon, no means no religon, no god, non spiritual, agnostic means spiritual but non religous

 

[dank69]

Well thats what i intended it to mean, i looked at the wiki def quick before adding it. Yes means i belive in a god and religon, no means no religon, no god, non spiritual, agnostic means spiritual but non religous

Do you know how I know you are trolling?

 

[brblx]

agnostic does not mean 'spiritual.' the latter is a word created by religious people who don't want to look stupid.

Agnosticism doesn't belong in your poll. Someone can be agnostic and either religious or non-religious at the same time.

dumbest quote of the month, congrats.

you might as well have said 'a man can be straight and still enjoy being penetrated by a large cock.'

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

You can be religious and not believe in a god. See Buddhism.

To answer the question: no, I'm an atheist.

 

[Angry Irishman]

Here we go....this forum needs a separate religious posting area just like L&R and P&N.

 

[Juddog]

I believe in Thor, god of Thunder & Lightning.

 

[dud]

OP, recommend changing your thread title to "Are you a person of faith?" vice dealing with religion. "Religion" can have negative connotations.

 

[GTSRguy]

Do you know how I know you are trolling?

I know you know that i know you are trolling...

 

[torpid]

This has not been done at least 10 times already.

Lies! Those other polls were fabricated as a test of our faith in the one true Are You Religious Poll.

 

[SlitheryDee]

I haven't read any of this thread and I already know that most of it will be about your definition of atheism and agnosticism.

I answered no, but I think you should have limited it to "I don't believe in any gods".

 

[brblx]

OP, recommend changing your thread title to "Are you a person of faith?" vice dealing with religion. "Religion" can have negative connotations.

ROFL.

and 'faith' doesn't?

'i'm not religious, but i believe in lots of magical invisible things for no reason in particular...'

faith, religion, and spirituality are all different versions of the same thing.

atheism is complete rejection.

agnosticism is just being smart enough to not claim to have answers that don't exist.

 

[Rudee]

I'm an Atheist, I swear to God!

 

[Aikouka]

agnostic means spiritual but non religous

Agnostic does not mean that you are spiritual. A spiritual person can be agnostic, but an agnostic is not necessarily spiritual.

dumbest quote of the month, congrats.

you might as well have said 'a man can be straight and still enjoy being penetrated by a large cock.'

It seems you misunderstood what I said. Even though you acted rather ornery about it, I'll simplify it for you. Someone can be an agnostic atheist (agnostic + non-religious/non-spiritual) or an agnostic theist (agnostic + religious/spiritual).

Also, with your supposedly "paradoxical example", you have considered that they make devices to allow females to perform said deeds.

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

ROFL.

and 'faith' doesn't?

'i'm not religious, but i believe in lots of magical invisible things for no reason in particular...'

faith, religion, and spirituality are all different versions of the same thing.

atheism is complete rejection.

agnosticism is just being smart enough to not claim to have answers that don't exist.

No, it's not.

No, it's not.

Before you make statements it's a good idea if you actually have any idea of what you're talking about. Atheism is the lack of belief in a god(s); nothing else. You're not rejecting anything, just lacking belief in it.

Complete agnosticism is not inherently smart in any way. It's just believing that there's no way to answer the question and there's 0 probability going in one way or the other. There's zero evidence that a god(s) exist, just like there's zero evidence that unicorns exist. Just because we can't prove the opposite gives ZERO justification to agnosticism. The burden of proof is on the one making the claims, not the one refuting it based on absence of evidence. You can't prove with 100% certainty that a god does not exist, but you don't need to be 100% certain there's no god(s) to be an atheist. That's a mistake people commonly make; at the same time, it's the reason why most atheists (including me) are agnostic atheists. I'm agnostic in the sense that I know we can't prove definitely that god(s) don't exist, but an atheist because there's no evidence to suggest a god exists to begin with. We already have science and philosophy to answer our questions.

 

[BurnItDwn]

The probability of the existence of one or more god or goddesses seems to be approximately 0. (no "god footprints" spotted, no video footage, no evidence or proof of any kind, therefore, there probably are no gods.

 

[Ns1]

The probability of the existence of one or more god or goddesses seems to be approximately 0. (no "god footprints" spotted, no video footage, no evidence or proof of any kind, therefore, there probably are no gods.

i refuse to believe anything other than god could have created this complexity known as life, therefore god must have created life.

:biggrin:

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

i refuse to believe anything other than god could have created this complexity known as life, therefore god must have created life.

:biggrin:

That's a statement so many people make, yet they don't realize it makes no sense at all. It's the endless complexity argument, which then raises the question: who created god, who created who created god, etc.

 

[BurnItDwn]

i refuse to believe anything other than god could have created this complexity known as life, therefore god must have created life.

:biggrin:

lol, that joke is funny, but I've heard it before...

 

[Ns1]

That's a statement so many people make, yet they don't realize it makes no sense at all. It's the endless complexity argument, which then raises the question: who created god, who created who created god, etc.

i am aware of the situation