Poll: Are you religious?

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Imp_Emissary

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God is the truth, and religion is the lie.
Not that all religion is bad. Just mostly not true.
 

Harveypot

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I'm not religious because I don't see why I should believe a book that was written hundreds of years ago when they thought the world was flat. That being said, I do think that religion can be a good thing as they have good morals to live by. I know that Islam, Buddhism and Christianty teach peace. (Others probably do but they're the only ones I know about.) Also, some of my best friends are Catholic and Muslim so I have no problem with people believing it, just no preaching to me.
 

Parago Doyle

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I think that all religion has value, but mostly for the fact that at the core of all religion it's all pretty much the same thing.
My personal belief is that there is a God, but he really doesn't care about you on an individual scale. He just sort of sits back and waits to see what happens.
 

Kilroy17

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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.
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.
 

Ham_authority95

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Not in particular. I've done the whole Christian praying thing, but it didn't really help me get any friends or lead me to my goals. My family isn't religious, either.

Everything I've learned in life so far points to "Why wait for a supernatural force to help me when I can help myself?"

The most religious I've gotten was in a car accident a couple of weeks ago, but that's only because the other guy was a hardcore christian. It went away the next day.
 

Brandon237

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No, I am an agnostic atheist. An atheist would be 100% sure and not open to any other possibility.
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I am 99.95% sure.
Take that as you will.

And again with the phallic polls! What is this?!
 

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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.
All hail to Invisible Purple Box!
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]

So great is the Invisible Purple Box!
 

crudus

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I am an atheist through and through. I actively hate religion, but I don't do anything about it until evangelists tell me I am going to hell or what have you.

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?
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".
 

mrwoo6

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I'm seeing a common trend I don't like among fellow atheist. The idea that SCIENCE! disproves all ideas or concepts of a "A god" or an higher entity, so to speak, and quite frankly, it does not. It only disproves all forms of religion we humans have managed to come up with. (God, Thor etc)

You can still quite logically belive in the existence of "A god" but also belive fully in all forms of science and still be a perfectly logical thinking human. In relative terms we humans know absolutely jack shit about anything. Just as much as theres no evidence for "A god" theres the same ammount against "A god". There is however plenty against the chirsten God.
 

Casual Shinji

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There are too many fantastic and meaningful stories born from religious views for me not to be.