Are you a Theist, Agnostic, Atheist or Antitheist?

I am the antithesis of a theist. I think. I put atheist, although I don’t attend services.

Atheist in that I don’t BELIEVE in a god.

Agnostic in that I don’t KNOW if there is one.

I picked “antitheist,” only because I believe that, in both a global and a personal sense, religion has led to more evil than good. And if there really were a God, I’d probably not be one of his followers.

That being said . . . I actually consider myself a “shrugnostic.” I started debating about God when I was 13, and I’m tired of it. The God/no God issue is no longer relevant to my life.

Zeus?

I picked atheist, but honestly I don’t know if there are gods, or a god.

If there are I don’t see any point in worshipping it, or them. Just looking at the world is enough for me to conclude that any deity is either indifferent, evil, or plays favorites for no discernible reason, so I suppose in that I’m an antitheist too.

I voted atheist, but I’m an apatheist: I don’t know if a supreme being exists, but I’m inclined to believe it doesn’t, and the answer is irrelevant anyway.

Didn’t vote. Definitely Big-A Atheist, in that I know there is no credible evidence of the supernatural (including G/god(s)). And am comfortable that the supernatural is not needed to explain anything. Sure no reason to care for any of the ones I’ve heard of.

And probably Antitheist, to the extent that I think the world would be better off if people engaged in a whole lot less magical thinking.

But I prefer the term nontheist. In my opinion, god just isn’t all that interesting, and is entirely unnecessary. I personally don’t care to expend much thought or effort towards him/her/it/them in any way.

I picked atheist, but yeah, I’m a Buddhist.

An Evangelical Protestant Christian here.

Agnostic. Don’t know, don’t care.

In order of importance to my self-image: atheist, Buddhist, antitheist, misotheist.

But I voted antitheist because it’s the kind of thing a misotheist would do when ignored on a poll…

Depends on the situation, normal, mundane, everyday life, I’m an Atheist, if some religious-fanatic-bible-thumper starts getting confrontational, I switch to full-bore ANTItheist, and the gloves come off

Thankfully, I haven’t had to deal with many fanatical busybody god-botherers

What if there only turned out to be $97.44? :slight_smile:

Enronism: The belief that God is great, God is good, but He’s a lousy accountant.

I’m an agnostic who believes in faith. I don’t think that the truth is knowable by anyone, but I also don’t think that’s the point: it’s all about faith. I happen to not have any, but I don’t think any less of those who do.

I wish more of them realized it was faith based though and spoke of it in terms of belief and opinion rather than fact.
If someone says to me “I believe you’re going to hell since I think taking the lord’s name in vain is a sin” then that’s their business and I have no beef with them.
If they say “You’re going to hell since you took the lord’s name in vain” then I do think less of them since they can’t seem to distinguish between fact and belief.

Reminds me of a (Paula Poundstone?) joke where she mentions she’s an atheist:

“Well, I still go to church, I’m not a heathen! I go to an atheist church. Where we have people who testify that they were crippled, and they still are. It’s the only church in the world where ‘100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall’ is a hymn.”

Yes, but do you believe in god? :smiley:

He’d believe in an omnipotent, omnipresent God who didn’t own a calculator.

I chose ‘agnostic’, but what I really meant was ‘this isn’t a big deal to me’. If pressed, I generally classify myself as ‘spiritually lazy’.

That’s a whole 'nother thread. :slight_smile:

That way lies madness, no pun intended. Quantum physics is weird enough that one might question one’s sanity in comprehending it but no one seriously suggests that you’re just hallucinating that books and scientists agree on this illogical-seeming configuration of the universe.

That said if it were a one-time occurence, it would still be somewhat in doubt. If stuff like that happened on a regular basis, it wouldn’t turn me into a philosophical theist (I’ll always remain a philosophical agnostic,) but would convince me that there was a being powerful enough that most people in the history of the world would call it a “god”, if not “God”.