it is not unfair for me at all, i just consider us like /b/ro's, very similar, but not exactly alike![]()
it is not unfair for me at all, i just consider us like /b/ro's, very similar, but not exactly alike![]()
It always confuses me why people go into wars about how we got here, and where we go when we die.
Agnostic /b/rother?Cuhrazay.
Atheist, even after being born into a major Christianity family. SRL made me think and converted me
^ Whoa.That's crazy.
Also, to everyone, were you born into the religion you now follow? If not, what religion(s) were you, and what changed/made you think differently about it?
I was Catholic, Christian, Mormon, and then I decided all of it was preposterous and now I'm an atheist.
Yeah I was christian until about last year? Maybe the year before that. I just didn't really like all the stuff that we had to do, going to a huge long easter/christmas service, and going to church some other times, was just bs. But, I am still forced to go to the easter service that will run next year at this church. But after that ill be 18 and my parents cant make me go.
I just stopped beliving in god, realising that he wasn't there, all the stuff I had to learn in school about religion was just bs
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Nothing formally but buddhism if anything
yes, but my parents were very big on letting me choose my faith. they did not shove it down my throat, or make me go to church. i go because i want to now. i go even when they dont lol.
but i must say, they were strong christian believers, but were open to letting me choose, thus making me very open to other beliefs. this, i am grateful for.
Born an atheist, don't want/cba to change.
lol
I'm an agnostic.
The reason I'm not an atheist is possibly because I'm not a big fan of showing off unwarranted self-importance, giving myself some silly titles like "hurr im a secular, free-thinking, rational skeptic (+10 other ones)" and having a superiority complex over everyone else and of course contradicting myself ("religion sucks because they try to make other people to believe what they do, so we should make them believe what we do!" etc.) and being overly aggressive about my beliefs, all of which seem to be huge among atheists. And I can admit that I don't know if God exists.
yea my parents were originally Christian, then i started thinking out side the box
It always confuses me why people go into wars about how we got here, and where we go when we die.
GoF, just because other atheists are arrogant doesn't mean you have to be.I know what you mean, though; I feel the same way sometimes.
I'm born an atheist, but I got converted to science![]()
I don't check this place often, sorry.
Currently working on - Software Engineering degree. Thank you SRL for showing me the one true path
On vacation in NeverLand,
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laveyan satanism.![]()
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Malachi 2:3
I guess I didn't actually answer the question. Me? I am a Christian. When it comes down to it, I don't 'act' the way Christians are labeled as. I ask, whom will you remember more and which will have a bigger influence on the way you view "Christians": the patron who picks up something that she dropped and holds the door for an elderly person outside a random building as you pass by - or the guy, with a bullhorn and pamphlets telling nobody about the disappointment, the anger, and the wrath of God?
No, I don't believe that you have to be a Christian to be a good person; however I do believe that there is a distinct Love that all persons need to be a Christian.I can see the shallow bridge troll comment already: "Valuable??? What do you mean by "valuable"??!? See, that is what I hate about Christians.. they see people as a prize to be converted, some statistic, numbers.. That is why I hate Christianity." .... .. Well, you know what? Me too."So a Christian is somebody who understands this, who understands that people with different perspectives and different religious beliefs and convictions, they're to be loved and respected, because they're made by God, and they're valuable and they matter. God loves the world, so a Christian does too."Christians can sicken me, and at times, it pains me to say I am one... IF the label was as I described.. then no I would never be. It shames me to say that sometimes I am ashamed of what I believe in. But I try to catch myself, because when it comes down to it... I am not ashamed at all. Not in the slightest. If somebody gets angry, says something vile, does something indecent or hurtful towards me because of me being a Christian, that is their fault for judging or pinning a label on me without knowing truly what it is that I, that I believe in."They aren't statistics, they aren't numbers, they aren't possible conversions. I mean, if, if I'm loving somebody with an agenda, then it isn't really love, is it?"
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Neither atheism not agnosticism are religions, and agnosticism is compatible with both atheism and theism and should not be included in the poll whatsoever.
In other words: You're not an atheist because from your experience, you don't like the way that atheists present themselves? Regardless of how you get along with people, atheist is simply a label that we put on people who don't believe in a deity.
Agnosticism is the absence of knowledge of the existence of a god.
Atheism is the absence of belief of the existence of a god.
One can be both an agnostic and atheist at the same time. Using myself as an example, I do not KNOW if a god does/doesn't exist in the same what that I do not KNOW if fairies exist/don't exist, however I do not BELIEVE that a god exists for I have seen no reasonable evidence to suggest that one does exist in the same way that I do not BELIEVE in fairies due to a lack of evidence for their existence.
In this same way, one could be an agnostic theist, not knowing if god exists, but believing that he does regardless.
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^ tl;dr, strong vs. weak atheism.
There's some strange set of beliefs in my head, but I cannot define them fully. I voted other.
Christianity
Hindu =]
born into Hinduism
^ wat no.
Wicca is believing in one, many or no gods; practicing or not a set of rituals construed as prayer; having or disregarding beliefs about karma, chakras, life energy, nature, science, love, emotions, intertwining of the lives of people. It's also about not adhering to any of the mainstream (or even underground, for that matter) religions that litter the world.
Odds are pretty good he IS a wiccan if he is neither an atheist nor a believer of another faith![]()
I don't check this place often, sorry.
Currently working on - Software Engineering degree. Thank you SRL for showing me the one true path
i believe there is one universal and transcendental god, Ahura Mazda, the one uncreated creator to whom all worship is ultimately directed
put a box for that
What about anti-theist? :P
Atheism FTW.
I wasn't born into a family of religion, so no one ever told me what to think. When I went to secondary school and gained some mild intelligence, it didn't take me long to shake off all the crap we had been taught in primary school about "God".
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