Which best describes your theological views?

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Which best describes your theological views?
Atheism 25%  25%  [ 19 ]
Agnosticism 34%  34%  [ 26 ]
Monotheism 25%  25%  [ 19 ]
Polytheism 4%  4%  [ 3 ]
Pantheism 13%  13%  [ 10 ]
Total votes : 77

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15 Dec 2007, 12:46 am

Which of the options in the poll best describes your theological views?



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15 Dec 2007, 1:27 am

You could also include Christopher Hitchens' Anti-theisim, which states that not only does he not believe in god, but that he sincerely hopes nothing in the bible is true.

The biblical description of heaven, after all, is little more than a celestial North Korea.


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15 Dec 2007, 4:14 am

Atheism, not because i don't think a god exists, but because i am currently not choosing to believe in a god.
I have done in the past, and it was a fascinating experience, but right now although interested in such a belief for its potential to sort out my Executive Dysfunction, ( which is probably more the result of years and years of Daily Bread and Cheese food opioids/opiate-similar effects on my brain than my introversion, but which is genuinely a problem and not just a question of perspective on the rat race!! ) I haven't quite taken the plunge. :D

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15 Dec 2007, 5:47 am

Generally theoapatheic.

I figure that there's a god, gods whatever but I don't really see why I should care.

Better if I follow my personal conscience and to an extent society's conscience.



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15 Dec 2007, 10:25 am

Atheist.



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15 Dec 2007, 11:52 pm

frankwah wrote:
Atheist.

Same here.



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16 Dec 2007, 12:52 am

Atheist


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16 Dec 2007, 3:39 am

Odin wrote:
Atheist


You don't believe in yourself?



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16 Dec 2007, 3:40 am

Agnosticism



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16 Dec 2007, 3:51 am

I'm sort of a combo, so i chose polytheism.



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16 Dec 2007, 9:26 am

I'm agnostic towards religion in the same sense that I'm agnostic towards magical pink unicorns.

I like Christopher Hitchens' Anti-theistic views. I have to agree with his assesment, that Heaven in the 3 Abrahamic religions, is nothing short of a celestial North Korea. I could think of little that's worse than biblical heaven.


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16 Dec 2007, 12:47 pm

I am a weak theist. I believe in God, but I draw no connections between that belief and my approach to the sciences. For instance, I accept evolution, not "theistic evolution."


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16 Dec 2007, 12:53 pm

I am an agnostic. God cannot be proven, and he cannot be disproven.

ouinon wrote:
Atheism, not because i don't think a god exists, but because i am currently not choosing to believe in a god.


Perhaps I'm missing something, but you have to explain this.



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16 Dec 2007, 12:59 pm

ouinon wrote:
Atheism, not because i don't think a god exists, but because i am currently not choosing to believe in a god.


That sounds rather close to apatheism:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apatheism


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16 Dec 2007, 2:50 pm

nominalist wrote:
I am a weak theist. I believe in God, but I draw no connections between that belief and my approach to the sciences. For instance, I accept evolution, not "theistic evolution."


That sounds like Deism or Spinozism.


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16 Dec 2007, 3:31 pm

Nominalist wrote:

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That sounds rather close to apatheism:


Ah... so there's a proper name for it.

I made up the word theoapathetic.

I didn't look it up because I didn't care :)

I'm surprised they cared enough to make a word for it....

I try to balance my two main religions; apatheism and jedi.