Religious Poll

I’m not surprised… I’m not surprised… Dopers are intelligent.

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I’m not surprised… I’m not surprised… Dopers are intelligent people that can think freely.

I used to be an Agnostic then some time ago I had a revelation… I found out that nothing was ever created… it’s always been there and will always be there… it just changes form… now I’m an Athiest.

I used to call myself agnostic because it seemed to be a kinder, gentler word. As I got older I stopped worrying what others thought and now I use the term atheist and at times anti-theist.

Why is “servant of Athena” not among the poll options?

Whence came this revelation, and why are you capitalizing agnostic & atheist?

Me too, but because I believe in the Trinity, but not God.

I have no memory of how I remembered that at the time. :smiley: Of course, your post is now five years old so you probably have no memory of mentioning that you had no memory of mentioning that.

Me too. I picked apatheist because if I was going to believe in a fictional entity it would be one of the relatively benign Hindu pantheon.

I’m a Thelemite.

I chose Other: theological non-cognitivist. Also antitheist. Also secular humanist.

Can you explain that first one?

ETA: Never mind, I wikied it.

I always say my religion is Other. Everything else carries too much baggage in people’s minds. I would say atheist is the closest but that always seems to be heard as anti-theist. Even other atheists seem to have some nuance that I don’t get.

I found this quote in *The Left Hand of Darkness *recently and it comes close to my brand of non-believer.

To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his nonexistence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof. Thus proof is a word not often used among the Handdarata, who have chosen not to treat God as a fact, subject either to proof or to belief: and they have broken the circle, and go free.
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

For the benefit of others - theological noncognitivism basically says that far from being something one should have an actual opinion on, the concept of “God” is so meaningless as to be incoherent, so it’s better not to even play the game, the way atheists and agnostics do.

This is not the same as the apatheists, who just don’t care. T-NCs do care, have given the matter quite a bit of thought, and arrived at the conclusion that it’s a mug’s game, when the terms of art are so meaningless or self-contradictory.

How, then, can you be both a T-N-G and an antitheist? Whom are are you opposing?

Yes, we Jews…oopsie.

That just sounds like you’re still playing the game, but don’t want to appear as though you are.

An I thought an* Agnostic* was someone who did not believe in G-d, yet feared him.
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Theists.

Nope. The game, in this case, is arguing about the existence of God, yay or nay. Saying “God’s a meaningless concept” is not the same as saying “God does not exist” Pointing out that an argument both sides are having is incoherent is not the same as taking part in the argument itself.

I voted “agnostics/undecided” although “uninterested” would be a more accurate description.

I clicked Muslim. I’m actually an Atheist, but I do not consider that to be a “religion”. Of those religions listed, I think the basic principles espoused in the Koran come the closest to a social ideal. Sadly, it is being interpreted over-conservatively, and the Islamic world is demonstrating to us what happens when any Abrahamic religion is placed in the hands of a conservative extremist fringe. Islam is the leading faith in Indonesia, where society functions comfortably and the economy flourishes.

So Muslim is my answer to the OP’s literal question, although I do not practice it.