Do you believe in a God , or God(s)? Please participate!

Agnostic atheist. I think it’s a misconception that agnostic is “atheism light”, they are two different things that usually go together. The (non-) existence of god is not something we can know (this is the nature of the way believers describe their god). I do not believe any god exists.

I think I’ll go with “atheist”, because it probably better represents what others would think.

Atheist, agnostic or apatheist.

Atheist covers it best, though. I do not believe in a god or gods, never have and probably never will.

shrug

“Shrugnostic” for me, I guess. I don’t know and I don’t care.

I always say I’m agnostic. Not too long ago a friend described me as an atheist who *wants *to believe. That isn’t a bad description.

I’ve called myself “atheist, antitheist, and theocidal”. I don’t believe in gods, I think that God-belief and religion is a bad thing in its own right, and my reaction to the great majority of gods is the desire to kill them off, not worship them.

That’s definitely taking Strong Atheism to its logical extreme. :slight_smile:

I guess you’re hoping that if theocide does turn out to be necessary then the monotheists are correct… 'cos if it’s the Hindus you’re going to have a very wide target selection. :stuck_out_tongue:

I’m an atheist. I don’t give a rat’s ass what other people believe unless they start spewing limitations all over my life.

It would seem that there are 18 other Christians here besides me, but nobody else wants to admit to being one. I mean, you guys aren’t *that *scary…

I’ve always called myself a “vague theist”. As in, “I believe in a God, but I don’t really define that God by any one particular religion.”

It was my post, in the thread about atheism and bigotry, which inspired this thread - I maintained that the number of self-professed theists on this board is exceptionally small, and RickJay claimed that I was mistaken.) Yes, now several dozen people have selected various religions in this poll. But, as the post above me indicates, they never talk about it in any way. And that’s fine. I don’t believe in wearing your religion on your sleeve. But it would explain why I said what I said in the other thread.

Functional atheist. If there is a God, he’s a jerk or he died a long time ago.

So if he signed on to SDMB, he’d be violating our guidelines for being a jerk. Serves Him right.

Strongish atheist. “God” is nondisprovable. I think it’s possible that a “high power” of some sort could exist, but I’ve seen no evidence of one, don’t feel such a postulate is needed or healthy, and, should one exist, I believe it would be far enough from conventional definitions of “god” as to really stretch the definition.

Abrahamic God in the Christian sense.

I voted atheist, because I don’t believe in a God in the way that I hear people try to define God. The lack of any real definition of God means that I surely can’t believe in ‘him’.

That said, I love the idea of considering the awesomeness of the cosmos and existence ‘God’ in and of itself. It just seems like the perfect loaded word to describe such indescribable wonder. So I go with the term ‘pantheist’ if that can be taken to meant, “I just call it all ‘God’”.

I have done some reading on pantheism, though, and I understand that not all pantheists think it is as simple as ‘calling it all god’.

So, if really pressed, I guess I would go with, ‘atheist.’

What I would have said had you not gotten here first. You said it better than I would have.

Abrahamic God in the Christian sense.
Conservative Catholic .

How can you desire to kill non-existing beings?

The existence of gods is infinitely more implausible than, say, talking trees, as trees capable of speech would ostensibly be more bound by the laws of physics than gods are purported to be. If gods exist then anything that could possibly be imagined by anyone, no matter how far-fetched, exists as well.

As RealityChuck alluded in post #5 above, that people in this day and age actually believe in gods and other supernatural phenomena is, to me, laughably silly. That we are asked to respect this belief, however, is, in my opinion, dangerous and detrimental to the progress of the human race.

I think I will always be amazed that while most agree that Scientology is kooky, these same people will defend, say, Christianity when the only real differences between the two are that one is older and has a more elaborate mythology.

Den u no getz cheezburgerz. Srsly.

I do believe in ceiling cat. Does that make me a theist?