Atheist or Religious?

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I would like to put in a question:


If you take the existence of God as an absolute truth. Then God can do and create anything, right?

So can he create a stone that is heavier than he can lift?


If he can then he can't lift it and if he can't well then he can' create everything.


I myself do not believe in God. I have my own invented religion. Close to the Gaia-theory. But i am really afraid that he do exist. Because if he does then the devil might exist, and I would then have a one way ticket to Hell for not believing.

You'd have your self-respect, though.

I just sort of let all religions slide past my face because theyre boring and cant improve my life.

Answering the original question--
Atheist, but agree with Zen beliefs. Atheism can be a strong belief, but that doesn't make it a religion. We're not worshipping no-god as our god.

I'm an atheist and proud of it.

I'm a pagan.

That's a wonderfully ambiguous term that can mean anything you want it to mean - there's as many different kinds of contemporary paganism as there are practitioners, from hardcore Greek or Roman reconstructionists with degrees in ancient history, to New Agers who grab a bit from here and a bit from there, mix up a Celtic god with a Roman Goddess and a Native American ritual they read in a magazine. (I personally don't like the latter, I think it shows disrespect to jumble things up together like that without researching them, but if it works for others, they're welcome to it.)

If I had to pick a definitive category to describe myself, I'd probably be a Celtic reconstructionist. But there are things I believe which I know don't gel with that tradition - like the idea that all the different deities are ultimately representations of the one entity. I don't presume to know what that entity is, and wouldn't even go so far as to call it a being. I recognise that my belief system's one of many, and no more or less true than any other, it's just the philosophical template I happened to choose as the interface between me and the divine. I enjoy the research, the rituals and the myths and legends.

And no, that doesn't mean I belive there really are Gods and Goddesses sitting up in the clouds drinking wine and chucking thunderbolts around, any more than Christians believe God is physically sitting up there in a geographically definable place called Heaven, looking just the way he's described in the bible when he handed over the commandments. As far as 'commandments' and rules for living, I just go by the one Ultimate Commandment (also called the Wiccan Rede and lots of other names):
Harm None

Think about it, it really does cover everything, doesn't it?

I'm just playing 'catch-up' here. As Christian sects go, the Methodist church has been the least-offensive I've been to. When I say I'm agnostic leaning toward atheist, I do mean it, and I'm not expecting, in the case of the existence of a deity/deities, that I'd get a 'free pass' for not having proclaimed myself atheist. I just don't feel there's strong proof one way or another, and so have declared myself Neutral, in terms of my own life. I do have a very strong sense of morals, and one of the things that I think drove me away from religion is all the idiocy and malicious behavior that is performed in the name of (pick a religion). But I'm a strong believer in freedom of religion, which means I expect people to respect my point of view, and I'll respect theirs.

There, that's my current Manifesto