Religion Poll (Please take a second to take!)

[Ceist]

I was watching some TV last night with my mom, an episode of House, at the end of the episode when they save this womans life, she is saying that she doesn't want to live if there is no higher purpose for her. In my opinion, that's awfully arrogant and selfish, to believe your existence is only for a higher purpose and if it isn't, you don't want to live around everyone else.

I guess you could call me a Satanistic Atheist, something like that, I don't believe in superstition/supernatural, I don't believe in God, or any other higher deity, I don't believe in fate or destiny. Even though this is just a TV show, I know there are plenty of people in the world just like her. It pisses me off because if there isn't any higher deity than yourself, you could enjoy your time by indulging in activities that you enjoy, your trying new things, instead these people are wasting away 12 hours a day looking for an answer that there's a god and trying to pursue it/him/her.

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[Teneksi]

The weak and strong refer to the agnosticism/gnosticism, not the atheism/theism.

That diagram is kind of confusing due to the difference between strong agnosticism (can't know if there is a deity or not) and weak agnosticism (theoretically something we can know).

Strong = GNOSTIC atheism/theism (YES there is a god, NO there is no god)
Weak = AGNOSTIC atheism/theism (I THINK BUT CANNOT PROVE there is a god, I THINK BUT CANNOT PROVE there is no god

Can you not read diagrams?

Wait, you're on about something else. Epistemological (what we can possibly learn) and ontological (what is true in the universe) agnosticism. At which point, I don't know if I can continue giving a forget.

I guess you could call me a Satanistic Atheist, something like that, I don't believe in superstition/supernatural, I don't believe in God, or any other higher deity, I don't believe in fate or destiny. Even though this is just a TV show, I know there are plenty of people in the world just like her. It pisses me off because if there isn't any higher deity than yourself, you could enjoy your time by indulging in activities that you enjoy, your trying new things, instead these people are wasting away 12 hours a day looking for an answer that there's a god and trying to pursue it/him/her.

Anti-theism is quite different from Satanism.

[Harm94]

I was watching some TV last night with my mom, an episode of House, at the end of the episode when they save this womans life, she is saying that she doesn't want to live if there is no higher purpose for her. In my opinion, that's awfully arrogant and selfish, to believe your existence is only for a higher purpose and if it isn't, you don't want to live around everyone else.

That is quite selfish. I think people should tell themselves what to do and give themselves a purpose in their world. Even the smallest of deeds or things you do can have a big impact on someone or something.

[_Rave_]

I find that the newer generation of athiests are more aggressive and rude. All they do is just bash those with religion, like one of those amazing atheist or Reddit types. Like any extremist, they see the world as theirs and anyone who is not them must convert to their standards. Like this guy:

I totally agree with you.  What I think would really be better for the world is that if everyone who identifies as an atheist would instead explore philosophy and identify with a branch of philosophy.

Like really, as a person, I'm an existential humanist.  I believe that there is no inherent meaning to life.  I believe that everything in your life gets it's importance only from the importance that you (and society) imbue it with.  I believe that a person must find their own personal meaning in life.

That is quite selfish. I think people should tell themselves what to do and give themselves a purpose in their world. Even the smallest of deeds or things you do can have a big impact on someone or something.

oh hey.  might want to read up on existential humanism.

Strong = GNOSTIC atheism/theism (YES there is a god, NO there is no god)
Weak = AGNOSTIC atheism/theism (I THINK BUT CANNOT PROVE there is a god, I THINK BUT CANNOT PROVE there is no god

Can you not read diagrams?

I believe that there is no god, but only because there has never been any evidence to prove its existence.  I also believe that if there is a god, it is outside the laws of this world and that there will never really be any way to prove that it does or does not exist.  Therefore I'm an agnostic atheist.

[Teneksi]

Please reconcile this with your previous statement which started this entire argument

you can't be "agnostic ______"

[_Rave_]

Please reconcile this with your previous statement which started this entire argument

lol, i did

ok now i understand your points.  I thought "Agnostic Atheist" meant "an agnostic who is atheistic," not "an atheist who is agnostic."

my bad lol, thanks for helping me understand that.

so i suppose I'd then identify as an agnostic atheist as well

[Teneksi]

All righty, didn't see that.

[PaintsForum]

My religion is a slight edit to Christianity. I don't believe in the bible, but I believe in God and being a good person.

It's not really Christianity if you don't believe in the bible, so wouldn't waste time appying Christian principle to your somewhat agnostic theist (Is that correct?) views.

One thing that I don't understand is, why don't any atheists do whatever religion they most favor's version or accepting Jesus? Isn't it worth a small prayer, just thinking words in your head, to know that there's even a small possibility of having a second life after this one, instead of nothingness? There's no happy ending for the Atheist, no matter what your theology is. (I'm not completely sure of this, but the majority or religions don't have a happy ending for the non-believers.) So why not do it for the very chance that you might get lucky and not end up in a bad place, or nowhere at all? 

Well there's my addition to the thread. See you all in hell. This is a figure of speech you starfish.

[Sentry]

I'm my own god.

[Tetris]

agnostic is just the lazy atheist

[Muslim]

Still the only muslim.

[PaintsForum]

Still the only muslim.

We all still love you.
c:

[Crêpe]

I'm Christian but I still maintain a belief in all aspects of science (apart from the Big Bang Theory. I still watch science program's and nerdy stuff.

I am one for keeping an open mind

[Nickelob Ultra]

Agnostic theist.  Yeah, sure there is a God.  I don't believe in any children or any extended spirit of him though, nor do I follow His church or His word written in the Bible.  But I love the new pope.

[DrJarbot]

Christian, I pretty much believe in the same stuff crepe does.