The Theist - Agnostic - Atheist Poll

Just curious. There's no "other" option - either you think that there's one or more personal Gods (then you are a Theist), or you believe that there is or might be one or more god like beings but you also believe that they are not concerned with humanity and/or don't interfere with our universe in any way that is relevant to us (then you're an agnostic/deist), or you believe that there is no God in any form that's super-natural or beyond science (then you're an atheist).

I used to say that I'm an Agnostic, but uppon further study I have to say that I'm an Atheist, for all intents and purposes.

^ I think that in some communities dominated by theists there is a better acceptance of agnostics than of atheists. But of course you're right, for all practical purposes there's not much difference ... the big difference is between theists and non-theists.

Theist

Atheist.

I think the wisest position is to just admit that you really don't know.

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.
Donald Rumsfeld


Edited by Slartibartfast - November 30 2009 at 09:27

I, uhm, don't really know. 

I've heard that in some countries Atheists aren't exactly well received ... some people even put them on the same level as child molesters, while others assume some other traits that supposedly go along with Atheism, including communism or nihilism/anarchism. Well, I'm an Atheist but also a law-abiding and generally friendly/helpful person. :-)

Negoba wrote: Panentheist for me.

So - would that rather be Theism or Atheism? It obviously depends on how you think that God manifests in the world around us. If you think that God *is* the world around us then IMO that would strongly point towards Atheism, for all practical intents and purposes.

Panentheism means that I believe in a simultaneously immanent and transcendent Divinity. Pantheism is the belief that God is the sum of all the Universe. Panentheism beleives that is true but that God also is greater than the sum of this material universe.

^ Well, how do you interact with the Divine? If it doesn't manifest itself in anything supernatural, then I see little difference between you and a true atheist. It's not like atheists cannot appreciate beauty in the world ... or "grandeur" as Dawkins cited Darwin.

Edited by Mr ProgFreak - November 30 2009 at 11:07