Poll: Whats Your Religion?

[PirateKing]

I guess I'm what is called a Deist. I believe that there is a god but that it rarely, if at all, interferes with life on earth.
Basically I do this: I don't regard anything too highly, and I don't disregard anything entirely. That's the mantra I live by.

 

[Baby Tea]

I'm a Hindu Atheist...Anyone else out there?

Can I assume that's a joke of some kind, since It's kind of funny to be part one religion which has more gods then all other religions combined, and part atheist...which is the belief there is no God.

Huh.

 

[gibboss28]

Whats is YOUR religion? and Why?

Why am i an atheist? Because i have the ability to think about things.

And this folks is a perfect example of why I dont consider myself an Atheist; this retarded aura of arrogance.

 

[cuddly_tomato]

Whats is YOUR religion? and Why?

Why am i an atheist? Because i have the ability to think about things.

And this folks is a perfect example of why I dont consider myself an Atheist; this retarded aura of arrogance.

To be fair that is not the opinion of most atheists. Just as the vocal Christian preachers tend to make the others all look bad, the whack-job fundy atheists bring the rest of atheism into dis-repute.

Also, I regard it more as more of a pyschological phase than arrogance in a lot of cases. You will notice a lot of the atheist folks around here who are ranting and raving are rather young. What I have noticed is that a lot of them come from Christian families where they have spent their whole life being mildly oppressed by parents who are pretty steadfast in their own faith. When they are old enough to think for themselves they naturally take the hard-line against theology, the rebelious teenage throwing off the shackless of oppression, if you will.

By the time a lot of them get into their thirties they will have calmed down.

Others... well they are fundies. Nothing you can do about fundies. They are not open to discussion, they don't care about the other persons point of view. They know, and anyone who disagrees must be wrong.

 

[gibboss28]

To be fair that is not the opinion of most atheists. Just as the vocal Christian preachers tend to make the others all look bad, the whack-job fundy atheists bring the rest of atheism into dis-repute.

Also, I regard it more as more of a pyschological phase than arrogance in a lot of cases. You will notice a lot of the atheist folks around here who are ranting and raving are rather young. What I have noticed is that a lot of them come from Christian families where they have spent their whole life being mildly oppressed by parents who are pretty steadfast in their own faith. When they are old enough to think for themselves they naturally take the hard-line against theology, the rebelious teenage throwing off the shackless of oppression, if you will.

By the time a lot of them get into their thirties they will have calmed down.

Others... well they are fundies. Nothing you can do about fundies. They are not open to discussion, they don't care about the other persons point of view. They know, and anyone who disagrees must be wrong.

Cant disagree with most of that...not too sure about the psychological phase myself but still is a good point. Though I've not met as many non-vocal atheists as i have the vocal ones.


Anywho to the main bit of the topic...

I consider myself to be a dontgiveafuckolic. What this entails is that a dontgiveafuckolic doesn't care about whatever people wish to believe and lets them be.
Unless someone forces their religious opinions down their throat or an atheist saying that people who belong to religious groups aren't capable of rational thought. Of course they do not go out looking for these things...

 

[anNIALLator]

People are saying that science has nothing to do with morality, but I'll repeat - read The God Delusion. Dawkins (who I might add is not a 'biggot' as cuddly tomato describes him) puts up a very strong argument and shows that we don't, and shouldn't take our concept of morality from scripture, particularly not one as weird and contradictory as the bible. I think that the only way for a christian to disagree with this would be to admit to discarding the old testament. It's incompatible with the new, which is (mostly) an admirable text about peace and love. But without the old testament, then Jesus died for, at best, a symbolic sin of a person who didn't exist. And that seems terribly sado-masochistic to me.
You have to discard the old testament because if you keep it then you'll probably 'cherry pick' the nice parts and ignore the bad ones. But by which moral code do you do this? Use God's own rules against him?

 

[Slayer_2]

Ex-Christian, now Athiest, because no one has been able to come up with a GOOD reason for why I should believe in any religon, yet.

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

I've decided to be agnostic because all the atheists around seem to act like douchebags.
I just sort of have a personal religion that I don't feel like explainin 'cause it would take to long to type and I'm lazy.

 

[Lord_Of_Plum]

I am actually a Zoroastrian. Zoroastrianism is the oldest surviving monotheistic religion, and currently, one of the least populated. I was born into a family of them.

 

[MercenaryCanary]

Atheist.
Thanks to mom actually. The ironic thing being is that she is pro-christian and goes to church every Sunday. But I turned Atheist when I asked her who wrote the bible and she said "No one is actually certain. We don't even know if its fiction." Yet, she still believes in god. Sad isn't it?

 

[Rucknar]

Buddhist, if i'd have to choose any, just becasue its the religion that makes the most sense, well in my opinion anyway.

 

[stompy]

I was born and raised in a Hindu household, but I've turned to what I see as Deism: there is some supernatural force out there, one that created the universe, but it does not interfere with the life.

As for the afterlife, I'm taking a 'life-force'-esque approach, in which life is recycled throughout the universe... heh, Law of Conservation of Matter for the win.

 

[Restoshamankk]

I believe in the Metal Gods.

Judas Priest helooooo

 

[Falconus]

Eh? Who mentioned souls?

You, typically, missed the point entirely. You aren't reading what we are saying, prefering instead to supply our end of the conversation from inside your own head, based upon the (completely wrong) assumption that I believe in God.

Let's say there is a drug that could make all human beings docile. Make them willing to work constantly for nothing more than food. Remove from them all emotional needs and desires. Effectively turn them into chemical machines. No pain comes from it, in fact it removes all pain, emotional and physical. It completely obliterates the individuality of all who ingest it.

Scientifically prove to me that it is wrong to use this drug on the entire population. That means, prove it. Not "show us there are chemicals in your brain", if you decide not to do it because of those chemicals that isn't logical. Logic is what takes place in the world, not in the mind. I want a logical reason, which can be verified using the scientific method, why it would be wrong to put this drug into the water supply.

He didn't miss the point, the question was whether science and philosophy overlap. He gave several examples of where scientific endeavors could be of use regarding philosophical questions. You ask him to solve one of these questions scientifically, of course it can't be done. It requires lateral thinking, but that doesn't mean a scientific point of view is completely irrelevant.

So yes there is an overlap

and stop whining about people assuming your religious. this is the second thread I've seen you do it in. If it's that much of an issue to you just say what you believe in your initial post.

 

[ZombieFace]

Atheist, not even agnostic, jesus could rise in front of me id still be skeptical

 

[cuddly_tomato]

He didn't miss the point, the question was whether science and philosophy overlap. He gave several examples of where scientific endeavors could be of use regarding philosophical questions. You ask him to solve one of these questions scientifically, of course it can't be done. It requires lateral thinking, but that doesn't mean a scientific point of view is completely irrelevant.

Of course it does. Science can't be applied to matters of morality, ethics, or spirituality. There is no overlap, and science doesn't have a point of view on those matters.

and stop whining about people assuming your religious. this is the second thread I've seen you do it in. If it's that much of an issue to you just say what you believe in your initial post.

I wasn't whining, I was merely pointing out a fallacy in his approach to the question. See, he never answered the question I asked. He answered a question he thought I asked, thus making his response redundant. I assumed the reason he responded the way he did was because he thought I was getting at the whole "soul" business. It was a clarification.

I keep my beliefs to myself unless someone actually asks me for them.

 

[Ursus Astrorum]

I'm a mixture of Taoism, Zen Buddhism, and Shinto, because I understand and identify with their morals.