Are you a Theist, Agnostic, Atheist or Antitheist?

Four choices, pick one.

I am a theist. Baha’i, by ‘brand’, in case you care. My hubby is an atheist. Our oldest daughter (22YO) changes religions about as often as I change my underwear; our middle daughter (19YO) is Baha’i. Our youngest daughter (10YO) considers herself “Half Baha’i, half Christian”.

Atheist. Went to the Global Atheist Convention in Melbourne in March. Met Richard Dawkins. Spoke at length to AC Grayling. Heaps fun.

Wonder where this is going and what you hope to achieve…

Agnostic. IMHO, by definition, the existence or non-existence of a supreme being is going to be extremely tough to prove. I don’t believe in god(s) because I’ve never had any kind of experience that leads me to believe*.

I’m also not militant about it and I don’t think people who are religious are weak-brained nutjobs or anything like that.

*I’ll start to consider it if everyone suddenly sees the stars rearrange themselves to spell out “VALGARD, THIS IS GOD. THERE IS EXACTLY $104.56 IN THAT JAR OF CHANGE ON YOUR BOOKSHELF.” Yes, I’d count the change.

I feel like we’ve recently done a poll like this.
I’m atheist and agnostic. I don’t believe there are any gods, but I also acknowledge that there’s no way to know if there are any because the definition of god is so clearly subjective.
If there is some sort of god by the standard definition of my culture I don’t believe it’s possible to observe it so I might as well not believe it just like I don’t believe in monsters, fairies and dragons.

I’m not antitheist but sometimes I do feel rather anti-Christian. Too many bad experiences.

Buddhist, so none of the above. Again, I picked agnostic as being closest. Agnostobuddhist. Buddhagnostic. I feel like I’m trying to come up with a character name. Buddhagnostic the Fierce.

Atheist and antitheist. I don’t believe in gods, don’t think believing in them is a good idea and would still oppose them if they were real.

Or as I’ve sometimes semi-jokingly referred to myself, “Atheistic, antitheistic, and theocidal”.

I put theist, but oddly enough atheist would also be appropriate.

I was raised atheist (or, more specifically, apatheist - my folks didn’t particularly care whether there was a god or not, it being irrelevant to their lives entirely), but had a few personal brushes with some sort of Thing Bigger Than Me, and a few experiences that taught me that yes, magic is a thing that is or can be real.

I generally consider myself a very very lapsed Pagan.

Wouldn’t Occam’s razor suggest that you had cracked up? And how could you be sure? Wouldn’t you need a sign from God? “VALGARD, THIS IS GOD. YOU’RE LOSING IT. STOP COUNTING THE CHANGE”. Meanwhile everyone on 51 Pegasus 3 is barfing as the solar system keeps whipping through space.

If you managed to kill a god, wouldn’t that bring your other philosophical beliefs into question?

Rather the opposite. :smiley:

Believer: “How do you know there’s no God?”

Me: " 'Cause I killed him. See? There’s his head in a jar."

Theist – I believe there’s a god, but that’s about it. I GUESS I still have some of the vague, well, “traces” of my Catholicism. It’s hard to shed. :wink:

Theist, of the “roll your own” variety. Nothing brand name.

Until you get beyond the simple level I think I have more in common with the atheists than with the typical theist. But I can’t stop arguing with existentialists, poststructuralists, and absolute determinists.

Since the poll only lets you pick one answer, I put atheist. I think I am both atheist and agnostic.

Atheist - I wasn’t raised in any religion and I see to reason/evidence to believe there is a god so I don’t believe in any god

Agnostic - agnosticism is a statement about knowledge - I think it’s probably impossible to know either way if there is a god(s) or not - I can’t imagine any evidence that could definitely prove or disprove the existence of god(s)

Note my criteria that everyone has to see it :smiley:

Why only 1? What if I’m 3 of them?

Anyway, I’ll pick anti-theist (wrt the god of Abraham).

So…strictly speaking, if I believed in a God, but I hated and wanted to kill him, would I be an antitheist but not an atheist?

All very well, but how do you know everyone saw it? - Because they tell you. But isn’t it more likely that you’re in the fool farm and everything you are experiencing is a delusion? If the existence of God is impossible, then any explanation of the phenomenon that does not admit of God’s existence must surely be likelier than any explanation that does.

Theist, Christian, just been warned I’m about to lose the Internet connection…

Buffy, wake up, we’re here for you.

Makes sense to me. I don’t believe in anything remotely akin to the authoritarian bombastic fellow described to me by lots of Bible-weilding theists when I was young, but if someone were to convince me that this entity really does exist as described (either in addition to or instead of God as I comprehend God), I’d then believe in this God but I’d be opposed to him.