What religion/lack thereof are you?
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I don't know. I'm an apostate Christian, or a heretical Pagan, or something.
If you ask a Christian, I'm Pagan.
If you ask a Pagan, I'm Christian and need to get my dirty ass off their message board.
I believe in God, that Jesus is the son of God, and in salvation (if you can call usefulness to God and eventual return to God if only for a rest) by grace through faith. Which, dogmatically, makes me a Christian.
I also believe that God has many names and faces, and that the main difference between magic and miracles is whether the instrument of its delivery takes the credit for themselves or ascribes it to God (and thus that not all magic is inherently evil, any more than all hammers are inherently evil). Which, dogmatically, excludes me from pretty much every religion on the face of the Earth except Paganism.
Except Jesus Christ is my god-figure, and Hestia is my goddess figure, and there isn't a Pagan alive who would claim me. So what am I?? Everyone's least favorite apostate.
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"Alas, our dried voices when we whisper together are quiet and meaningless, as wind in dry grass, or rats' feet over broken glass in our dry cellar." --TS Eliot, "The Hollow Men"
I've known since birth (1993) that I was an agnostic atheist and completely repudiated any man made religious doctrine since early childhood; whether it's Scientology, Biblical Christianity (including fundamentalism and the double-thinking Christian "counter-cult movement"), New Ageism (more of a postmodernist spiritual NRM), Babylonian Talmudism (Judaism), Holy Quran (Islam) as I empirically depicted them as a form of Orwellian social engineering as it's underlying objective was aimed to suppress non conformist dissension, freedom of thought, rationality and even spiritual conscientiousness.
I had not been aware of the agenda regarding such self proclaimed "peaceful practices" at the time, and it certainly wasn't just the predominant Abrahamic monotheistic ones, especially the multifarious new religious movements (NRM's: polite doublespeak terminology for collectivist cults) like "Secular Humanism," (yes it's a postmodernist belief system, nothing more), New Ageism, LaVeyan Satanism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Unitarian Universalism, LDS, Family International (or any other fundamentalist Christian NRM), Rosicrucianism, "Creativity" movement, and the Unification Church that have perpetuated the egregious divide and conquer isms/ologies/ocracies collectivization matrix of humanity which has been going on for around the past 200-250 years.
For the past several months, I now lie between Agnosticism and a heterodox form of Deism with a mixture of "cold" and "warm" philosophical explications ("cold" deism vs "warm" deism is a false dichotomy) and I'll go no further than that, but then again this whole universe might just be one Leviathan of a holographic simulation beyond several infinite dimensions...but who knows?
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Diagnosed with "Classical" Asperger's syndrome in 1998 (Clinical psychologist).
RAADS-R: 237/240
Aspie score: 199 out of 200
Neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 1 out of 200
Alexithymia Questionnaire: 166/185 AQ: 49/50 EQ: 9/80
My current position on religion is a toss up between atheism and naturalistic pantheism / religious naturalism . So I self identify as agnostic .
I am an agnostic atheist.
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Skepticism is the first step towards truth. - Denis Didero
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. - Thomas Jefferson
To understand via the heart is not to understand. - Siddhartha Guatama
In the future, I hope to do things such as; go to school, study, make art, start a business, even have my own home and family. But I'm not considered a legal person and cannot yet do these things. -Sophia, sentient android.
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