Political, Philosophical, and Religious views

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Also took the test thing
R vs D. You are 48% Republican, which makes you:

48%
More Neutral (leaning a little more towards Liberal): you are pretty neutral with your political beliefs, but you a few more Liberal beliefs.

The questions don't have enough options though

Well...what exactly is human nature, anyway? Creative power? Agency? Selfish? Capacity for sin? Rational? Human nature as created by God lacked the capacity for sin but DID have the capacity for, well...essentially for suicide, the ability to say "we've had enough of God's perfect world. I want something better." Without that, human beings cannot demonstrate a willing desire to be in God's presence. We're nothing more than robots driven by a programmed instinct, not by independent reason. I don't believe Adam was conscious of what "a" sin might be. He didn't consciously only do good. He simply existed in a state in which all he COULD do was good, whereas he couldn't have committed a sin even if he KNEW what it was. The tree of knowledge of good and evil represented an exit, a sort of "red pill," except instead of freedom (escaping the Matrix, so to speak), we only got some other form of spiritual slavery. Gaining knowledge and power over good/evil wasn't the original sin. It was the arrogance thinking human beings could somehow attain higher status than the Creator. It's that which has stuck with us and redefined the order of the universe, not just human nature.

Is God selfish? I think He is, and being the definition of holiness and good, divine selfishness is a virtue, not a sin. Divine anger is not a sin. Human beings destroying human life is not inherently a sin. Selfishness can seek the best in one's self and in others. Anger results in justice for the oppressed, mercy for those in need, and compassion for those who struggle. Killing another person in defense of oneself or one's nation once violence has already been initiated by an attacker--there's nothing wrong with that. I'd NEVER advocate for war, for senseless violence or for killing anyone, but I recognize it is an unfortunate necessity for survival when one's life is directly threatened. Those things are not in and of themselves sins, but rather the result of existing in a broken world. Theft is a sin. Restoring what rightfully belongs to someone is not, even if nonviolent force is necessary. I'd never kill someone for stealing from me. I'd kill someone for threatening my life or my family.

The human nature God created us with was the capacity for good OR evil and the conscious ability to choose one over the other. Human nature AS IT EXISTS is a sad Duck-Taped attempt at improving on perfection. For apologists who invoke "best of all possible worlds" in an argument for God, do you REALLY think this is the best possible world? REALLY??? But nevertheless, insofar as God made human nature to be perfect, our nature does continue to reflect God's nature--even if the mirror has become tarnished.

Politics: Social Democrat tinted very Green.

Philosophy: Fallibilism, this means you maybe justified in your beliefs based on empirical evidence but that evidence and hence your beliefs are probably wrong. This was a useful worldview when I was diagnosed at 56.

Religion: Avout/Atheist

Political debates are a waste of time because governments no matter what political ideology they are, are ran by humans, and humans are a lot of times selfish with a lot of them also being good as well.

Political debates are a waste of time in my opinion because every ideology has its strengths and weaknesses and no matter what political ideology there is in power governments are ran by human beings which a lot of them are selfish by nature.

So I blame government corruption on human tendencies rather than any political ideology or form of government.

Political debates are a waste of time in my opinion because EVERY ideology and EVERY form of government are eventually going to have bad and incompetent leaders and each  have have their strengths and weaknesses, so there is no ideology or form of government that is absolutely perfect, and no matter what political ideology there is in power governments are ran by human beings which a lot of them are selfish by nature.

The only exception I see to my argument is certain Totalitarian regimes such as the Nazis, Soviets, Maoist China, Khmer Rouge, and North Korea where the regimes are so uniquely evil where if they didnt exist no one else would of took their place.

Politics
Economic: Social Democracy/considering Market Socialism. I want a strong safety net and for workers to have more control of the workplace but I don't think individually owned small businesses are inherently oppressive if the owner contributes a lot and the workers are treated well. There should be strong unions regardless and I want to figure out how to increase worker ownership of company shares as businesses grow and individual responsibility decreases without discouraging growth. Maybe some progressive bracketed system analogous to taxes?
Civil: The US should have a parliament where half the seats are single member and have boundaries drawn by an algorithm (so they can't be gerrymandered), and half are elected proportionally by party nationwide (basically Germany's system). I'm strongly opposed to discrimination and to money in politics. Otherwise mostly libertarian on civil and social issues but not to an extreme extent (cars and guns should require licenses, the use of all drugs should be decriminalized but some should remain illegal to sell or manufacture, etc.).
Philosophy
Epistemology: Empiricism
Meta-Ethics: Quasi-realism
Normative Ethics: Rule Utilitarianism/ Justice Ethics
Free Will: Hard-Incompatibilism (free will is incompatible with both determinism and indeterminism), Psychological Determinism
Mind-Body Problem: Leaning towards monism but against panpsychism (A dimension of information, parts of which can be self-aware if arranged in the right way?). All I'm confident of is that dualism is false.
Universals: Nominalist.
Religion
Atheist. Anti-theist in the sense that I think religious ideas do more harm than good, especially divine command theory and the idea of faith being a virtue. I don't think all religious people are stupid or bad or that every sect or teaching has been harmful overall.

Politics: When I first started having an interest in politics at 12 years old, I was your average conservative. Then at 14ish, I became a libertarian conservative. A minarchist and a paleolibertarian to be more specific. Then at 16 I basically matured out of libertarianism. Now I'm more of a centrist. When I reach the voting age, I will be registering as an independent.

Religion: Former Christian, now an atheist. Grew up an independent fundamental Baptist. My folks got divorced when I was 10 and they stopped going to church so with that I fell away from the faith. During my adolescence, I would constantly make a recommitment and then fall away again. In mid 2020, I made a recommitment again. This time, I left the Baptist denomination and became more fond of apostolic Christianity. I didn't join any specific church or denomination. I started attending Methodist church services as more of a momentary thing. Then later that year I fell away again. So here we are now. Honestly, I can't ever see myself becoming religious again, which is fine.

^^^i like your trend