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This pretty much sums up how I feel as well. I wouldn't say I'm atheist, because I'm open to all the possibilities. Plus, I really do hope there's something. I just can't accept that any one person/religion has it all/or any right. It's all one big ?????????

I'm fascinated by religion, in an anthropological way. If I'm religious at all it's in my own way that I made up myself!

Agnostic. It would be nice if there was something to believe in, but honestly I don't think there is.

Sad, but often true...



I feel the same way.



Exactly. It seems pretty egotistical for anyone to think they have figured out all the answers to life and the universe. Back to the concept of man trying to define his own existance..



Same here. I think it's fascinating, and I love to study the history of religion and the evolution of religious philosophy and conceptions.

I believe nature is all there is. And that nature has a mental component of some sort, which can be examined scientifically (either by finding ways to quantify it, or by looking more at qualities/relationships/systems and less at quantities).

I don't understand how anyone can be religious in 2007.

Yes - I can get into the idea of the spirit of nature and essence of the earth more than a mythical king on high with magical powers we must bow to..
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yeah, soph: I wonder myself how it is there is still so much extreme religious fanaticism in our day and age..

and how it is possible that more people have been killed throughout history in the name of God/religion more than all other reasons combined.. (though underneath their claim of doing it in the name of God/religion, it usually comes down more to greed, power and control justified in the name of religion..)

True, true.

For all practical purposes, I am an atheist. However I am fascinated by mysticism, and I have a kind of fantasy reguarding a metaphysical representation of reality. I think it's something akin to what I saw of John Nash in A Beatiful Mind or of Kenji Miyazawa in Spring&Chaos. Irrational as it may be, my heart believes in the existence of the Great Pattern, the ultimate systemization of reality.

Exactly

Very true. Also I find it very hard to trust people who willfully suspend rationality.

Silly side thought:
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Doesn't that make god the most corrupt being in the universe? That explains a lot.

not all religions state there is a god or have any theological dogma to them. To state that "religions = prejudice" is a bit ironic, innit?!
I'm a Unitarian Universalist and it's secular humanist denomination. It has no consensus over theology though local chapters have their own flavors. Overall, they claim to be atheistic, though the dogma itself will accompany many other religious beliefs.
Personally, I don't know if there is a god or not, I'll find out or not, won't I?

Agnostic. Religion is completely illogical and in this day and age represents nothing more than an inability by the weak minded to accept the fact that they can't explain their surroundings or that some things actually happen by chance. It's always interested me that the concept of viewing the sun as being towed across the sky by Apollo's chariot is thought of as an ignorant myth, but the idea that a man can turn water into wine or rise from the dead is a sacred belief system.

I'm agnostic at this point.I'm suspicious of all rigid beliefs and dogma,that goes for believers and non-believers alike(though the idea of a Supreme Being certainly strikes me as absurd).

Explore,test,question,consider,suppose,doubt,trust,cry,laugh..those make sense to me.I can't comprehend anyone "knowing" the fundamental nature of everything with absolute certitude,and probability/improbability don't cut it for me philosophically.It's all like "whistling past the graveyard".

Which is more believable, some magical god that seems an awful amount like santa clause- santa god!, or human like gods? I think the greek and norse pantheons are more believable. And I"m an apathiest.

agnostic.

side note: most people who call themselves an atheist bloat up science to a metaphysical degree and take it as their religion.