YAACI (Yet Another Agnostic Checking In).
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If it’s not too late to post, I’m agnostic. I don’t trust Christians because they believe in stuff like the Bible, which is basically a chronicle of Jewish history that has been translated so many times that whatever original meaning it had has probably been lost in the shuffle. The Bible is interesting fiction to me. Plus slaveholders and slave traders used Christianity to justify the atrocities of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and of slavery in America.
I’m leaning towards spiritualist/animist, though because I’ve been visited by a few angels and other spirits and had some interesting communication with a few trees, and I wasn’t under the influence of any drugs at these times either. 
Sounds crazy, I know, and I can’t prove it to anyone else, but I believe what my own eyes have seen over someone else’s translation of events that may have happened centuries ago.
celestina wrote:
Just FTR, most American anti-slave abolitionists in the mid-19th century also used Christianity to assert that slavery was immoral. Seems one can use the Bible to support any viewpoint.
Interesting, OpalCat’s polling booth linked to from her thread:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=61388
Is currently broken down as follows.
So we have a fairly large discrepancy between these various polls. In OpalCat’s Christians have neither the plurality nor the majority.
This is definitely unusual given the normal breakdown in the U.S. of A. I wonder what that says about the board? (well, I have my own opinion, but no matter)
I’m a God! Worship me, fools.
But I myself am an atheist. (Is an atheist God is a contradiction in terms? Discuss.)
Anthropologist.
I’m a non-Christian (read: atheist). What, are we being rounded up now?
I am a Pagan with Christian belief’s. Don’t ask.
Proud to be Heathen here!
tracer, thank you for noting that some abolitionists were Christians who used Christianity to argue that slavery was wrong. Actually the first slave narratives were conversion narratives, ex-enslaved people talking about how they were converted to Christianity, but if you look between the lines, those narratives are suspect. I imagine they would not have been published if the author hadn’t talked about being converted to Christianity and how that was the most positive thing resulting from his experience as a slave. And even if those early authors found that converting to Christianity turned out to be a good thing in their lives, it still did not make the horrors of slavery that enslaved people in general suffered worth that conversion. Yes, you can use religion to support any view, but the reason I mentioned Christians using Christianity to justify the atrocities of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and slavery in America is because this fact is often overlooked.
I don’t hate Christians; they can believe whatever they want. I just don’t trust them because a lot of times some of them don’t practice the love and tolerance that Jesus, if such a person really ever existed, preached. A lot of times you can find Christians singing and praising the lord in church on Sunday and then cheating people or worse on Monday. If Christianity or any other religion for that matter is so wonderful, then it should not have to resort to coercion to increase its numbers.
I have not seen a major religion yet that does not have it’s fair share of hypocrites.
I guess I consider myself a Deist, though after reading through this thread, I suppose I’m somewhat Agnostic as well.
To be honest, although I enjoy discussing religious beliefs and why people believe what they do while in a social setting, I personally don’t give it much of a thought on a day-to-day basis (what was that called…apatheist?). I was raised Christian, Catholic, actually, and attended Catholic grade and high schools but by age 16 no longer felt the need to go through the motions of religious belief. When I looked around the church or while in religion class, I saw people mostly going through the motions, not giving any serious thought to their actions or words, I know I wasn’t, but instead treating it as one more thing they had to remember and recite verbatim in order to pass a class and by doing so, they would be doing what they had to. Bah!
I call myself a Deist (with Agnostic leanings, I suppose) because I believe in the Big-Bang and the sheer random chance of our evolution and all that Science stands for, but somewhere, at the very beginning, there had to be something that put the seed in place from which the Big-Bang erupted. I just don’t see the need to run around telling everyone what I believe. It’s like people need validation or something and religion is the ultimate conversion…enough, I’m not going to get into it in this thread, just put me down for Deist-Agnostic with a minor in Taoist life-philosophy.
[sub]I’ve got a thread about Hell going, if you’d care to comment[/sub]
Why would Hell be bad?
Buddhist
Devout atheist, recognizing metaphorical truth in spiritual imagery.