Religion Poll

So called 'scientifical agnostic'

Protestant/Christian

I am very surprised how many athiest/agnostics there are

James Lee wrote:

"I believe in god as a concept created by mankind (or possibly by animals, plants or bacteria...it's impossible to say with certainty that another kind of life doesn't have a sort of spirituality). Do animals see us as a kind of god? That's how I interpret most of the classic portrayals...human beings as a victim of His condescending 'love' and thoughtless slaughter.

I do not believe in God as a conscious entity, omniscient and omnipotent...if I did, I would be forced to align with His enemy due to the pain and suffering He has knowingly caused. Whoever came up with the ultimate rationalization "God works in mysterious ways" should be remembered as one of mankind's most successful apologists.

Such a being, responsible for the deaths of everyone we have ever known and cared about, deserves one of two faiths: the faith that such a monster could not exist in the real world, or the faith that we are all doomed to be flaccid puppets in a baffling performance that we can never comprehend, let alone enjoy. I chose the former.

Every bit of faith you give to this supposed deity is quisling loyalty to the murderer of your parents and your children. I do not believe mainly because I have no wish to dedicate my life to revenge."

James, God does not murder, if he did He would be breaking His own law. God gave us the ability to decide for ourselves our own paths. He gave us freedom and FREE WILL to do as we wish. We have the conscious knowledge of what is right and wrong but many CHOOSE to do wrong like murder (not talking about war or self defense here). We can also choose to accept who He is or not. It's all OUR OWN choice.

We have never been puppets of God but of man.

Tony:

True - I cannot prove that the bogey-man does not exist.  But under what rubric can you make the definitive statement that "I will tell you he doesn't."  Based on what empirical evidence?  After all, you are a rationalist, so you must believe in the "scientific method," which requires empirical "proof" - or, at a bare minimum, supporting data - in order to make declarative statements of theory, much less fact.

It is this "absolute certainty" in your "atheist" arguments that leaves your positions open to "attack" - both rational and faith-based.

Peace.

Sweetnighter wrote: I don't believe any higher powers exist, so I consider myself an atheist.

Atheism isn't a simple lack of belief, it's a disbelief. I think you said elsewhere in the post (which I deleted in the quotation, whoops) that you believe that there is no God, so from that statement you probably are an atheist, but true atheism doesn't come just from not believing. Just thought I'd clear up/confuse matters a bit.