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I'm a united Christian, we mostly focus on the teachings of Jesus, also we like gay people and other religions.
The older I get the more interested in learning about my religion I get, maybe I'll start going to church but the last time I went the pastor talked about playing Bob the Builder with his grandson.
I'm not a big fan of people who shoe horn their religion into everything though, in Canada religion seems to be more a personal thing you don't go openly discussing with strangers which is why when I hear people being really openly religious in public it's very odd for me.
 
I'm a Catholic and went to Catholic schools but went through a "Atheist phase" which I later grew out of it.
Today i consider myself a open minded Catholic with some conservative leanings .
 
I am an ignostic. When somebody asks me whether a god exists I respond with "define god"

Zeorus said:
While that may be true (I think it's up to debate), would a trans-species religious exchange have the same effect? What if this hypothetical religion gains human converts? What would the theological ramifications be for human religious organizations? Would the grace of Jesus Christ extend to non-human sentient beings, for example?
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I think that simply all human religion will transform into "Humans are the best species" once we encounter aliens
 
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I like that Buddhism assumes that humans are good. I think that many religions toss humans aside for the gods, whereas Buddhism is all about transcending reality (and surreality). In many ways, I'm a transtheist, as in I believe that gods exist, but they are metaphors.
 
Jon-Kacho said:
A sentient being that created the universe and everything in it. I knew the definition of the word god when I was 5, it's not that hard.
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You would be surprised by how many people have other more useless definitions
For that definition I would say no because of lack of evidence, not disbelief just lack of a position one way or another
 
Jon-Kacho said:
A sentient being that created the universe and everything in it. I knew the definition of the word god when I was 5, it's not that hard.
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Spinoza posited an impersonal, unconscious Creator. Nor is that particularly unusual, as the notion of a single, conscious creator of the universe is an historical novelty that more or less came into existence with monotheism. One of the earliest forms of Creator myth involved what was essentially a chaos monster, Tiamat, who merely gave birth to the universe as a natural process rather than a premeditated act.

So the idea of a personal deity, that is, a deity which is actually recognizable as a single person, is just a new idea, not something that is definitive in the idea of a creator.

Some Platonists also posited the existence of a creator who was, though personal, not conscious of why he created or the source of his power. This middle tier creator, a demiurge, was basically a blind idiot.
 
I started life as a very devout Catholic. Since then, I've walked a very twisty spiritual path - including a recent bout of atheism - but now, I find myself returning to a belief I've previously held. If someone asks, I call myself an 'Agnostic Pagan'. I don't follow any particular godforms. I don't know if any godforms exist, but I can understand why some view the natural world as the source of divinity.
 
I was born into a religious household but pretty much was an atheist from the beginning due to media influence. I then decided that the usage of mantras and ritual was a good thing to help with productivity so I became a chaote
 
I just never liked the technicality sounding things, like that people in remote parts of the world never heard of the correct religion or got baptized so they all went to hell. Maybe we can save their descendants.

It's like the ultimate test I didn't study for nightmare. Other than that, no strong stance.
 
I was an atheist for many years and found I could not deal with the crushing reality of my own mortality.

I desperately needed something to cling to and found there was a large amount of literature authored by respected individuals on the existence of a God that actually made things seem plausible.

I consider myself an agnostic theist and nominal Christian in that I believe that no one can ever know but there is enough evidence to support the fact that a higher being could exist. I subscribe to Christianity solely as it was the religion I was brought up in.
 
Fallensaint said:
I consider myself an agnostic theist and nominal Christian in that I believe that no one can ever know but there is enough evidence to support the fact that a higher being could exist. I subscribe to Christianity solely as it was the religion I was brought up in.
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A lot of people saying something is so doesn't really count as "evidence".
 
Hat said:
What if you become infertile?
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I will make my siblings have lots of children potentially simply by encouraging them to become sperm/egg donors, although I try to avoid anything which may cause infertility preemptively
 
Because you said

Fallensaint said:
there was a large amount of literature authored by respected individuals on the existence of a God
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Unless one of those books actually showed evidence of the existence of God - which I'm pretty sure I would have heard about - all of that literature, no matter how respected the individuals are, is a lot of opinion, but not an iota of evidence.

If you want to believe in God it's no skin off my back, but claiming you have evidence of God's existence is laughable.
 
Dudeofteenage said:
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Unless one of those books actually showed evidence of the existence of God - which I'm pretty sure I would have heard about - all of that literature, no matter how respected the individuals are, is a lot of opinion, but not an iota of evidence.

If you want to believe in God it's no skin off my back, but claiming you have evidence of God's existence is laughable.
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"ON the existence of God" I never claimed to have solid evidence, I do believe I said made it plausible. But sure, if you say so :lol:
 
I'm agnostic. I think. There are some things that cannot be explained but there is no real proof to say that there is an universal entity or deity. To me all is just the universe experiencing itself.
 
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