Very good point, I didn't consider that point of view on it. What I mean by my question is do you believe in a supernatural or divine power, to phrase it better.Monkfish Acc. said:You know you can be theistic without being religious, right.
My mum is. She's not agnostic, she firmly believes there is a God. But she also doesn't 100% agree with any religion.
She thinks some of them get some things right. But most of them focus on the wrong things. Or worse, abuse the parts that serve them best and ignore everything else. If she were to describe herself, she would probably say she was more spiritual than religious or some hippy crap like that.
I'm mostly agnostic in that I don't actually give a shit, I think there are more important things to be concerned with. But I just figured I should point that out.
That is the greatest. Thank you for sharing that.70R4N said:
I'll just leave this here.
The Invisible Purple Box appeared before me, and said that it required me to sacrifice my family member on an altar to prove my loyalty. But as I raised the dagger for the sacrifice, the Purple Box intervened, and said that because I would have done it, that was good enough! [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+22&version=NIV]Vhite said:All hail to Invisible Purple Box!TheDist said:Well let me use an example: I have an intangable, invisible, undetectable box which creates all gravity in the universe (also its purple!). Do you ask me to prove it or belive me untill somone else shows I am incorrect? That is how the claims of religion seem to me.
They also had/have extreme hybris and maybe even Megalomania(or the non-clinical equivalent of a god complex). I am also not sure what you are trying to get at. I have never heard people say "if there was no religion, people wouldn't war/die/create a hierarchy/genocide/etc".matoasters said:Speaking as an agnostic, an atheistic worldview doesn't prevent any of the shit that atheists seem to think only religion causes. Stalin, Mao... those names ring a bell?