Extended Discussion 2009 Religious Affiliation Census

**Sornaensis** · 09-13-2009 03:55 AM

I have no affiliation; an atheist.

EDIT: The poll isn't working!

**DrunkenArse** · 09-13-2009 06:42 AM

If you get the poll working, be sure to stick Naturalistic Pantheism in there so I can vote

**ninja9578** · 09-13-2009 02:35 PM

Polls work for me

**Xei** · 09-13-2009 04:53 PM

Whut polls?

**ClouD** · 09-14-2009 02:06 AM

Poll added at request.

**Hercuflea** · 09-14-2009 02:14 AM

I am a Deist; I dont really know what I need to specify. If you want to know about Deism read Thomas Paine's Age of Reason.

**Sornaensis** · 09-14-2009 02:23 AM

People seem to like to break up general terms like "Atheism" "Pantheism" "Christianity" into different sections etc... I just put that there for good measure

**KingCarnie** · 09-14-2009 02:24 AM

I went ahead and voted atheist, though in reality I'm more of an agnostic nontheist. I don't actively reject the idea that there is some sort of deity, but if there is a deity I believe that it is not a personal one, and thus there is no point in really contemplating about it.

**Grunkie7** · 09-14-2009 03:06 AM

I voted apathetic. Technically I'd say I'm an atheist, but I can't really claim it to be a researched and contemplated standpoint. It's more of a "Yea, that sounds about right" feeling, with little incentive to do real research on any philosophies or religions. (Unless watching Internet 'debates' counts as research

) Kinda waiting for the time where that will start bugging me.

**Descensus** · 09-14-2009 03:07 AM

Atheist

**ninja9578** · 09-14-2009 03:12 AM

Atheist, 100% sure that there is no god.

**grasshoppa** · 09-14-2009 03:48 AM

atheist, but 99.99% unsure about everything. The last 0.01% is what I think I know.

**Xaqaria** · 09-14-2009 05:43 AM

You missed transcendental panenthiesm.

**Fossape** · 09-14-2009 04:56 PM

animist

**Speesh** · 09-17-2009 07:35 PM

Apathetic. None of these "fundamental questions about life" really matter to me anymore. If there even is objective truth I've submitted to the fact that its beyond us and far greater than myself. I used to think about these things all the time, but I've found it just distracts me from more productive activities I could be doing in this short window of time we have here.

100% unsure about everything I perceive, and 100% uninterested either way.

**Sornaensis** · 09-17-2009 10:11 PM

Originally Posted by Speesh

Apathetic. None of these "fundamental questions about life" really matter to me anymore. If there even is objective truth I've submitted to the fact that its beyond us and far greater than myself. I used to think about these things all the time, but I've found it just distracts me from more productive activities I could be doing in this short window of time we have here.

100% unsure about everything I perceive, and 100% uninterested either way.

What a boring, unsatisfactory life you must lead, not caring about anything and being completely unsure about everything.

**Zhaylin** · 09-17-2009 11:01 PM

Jehovah's Witness, though I am currently disfellowshipped (not a recognized member of the congregation until I straighten my life out).

**Universal Mind** · 09-18-2009 01:48 AM

Atheist. I believe in God about like I believe in the Great Pumpkin. Technically, though, I think there is a higher likelihood that the Great Pumpkin exists than there is that God exists.

**Mes Tarrant** · 09-18-2009 01:56 AM

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Atheist, 100% sure that there is no god.

Noooo! You must not say that. I love when atheists are very rational thinkers - in which case you'd have to say something like you think the probability of there being no god is 99.999999%.

**Sornaensis** · 09-18-2009 01:59 AM

There is as much reason to suppose the existence of god as there is the flying spaghetti monster once you get out all of the superstitious cultural ideas around it. Hell, the FSM is actually more likely, since he makes no illogical claims, is bound by similar universal laws, and spaghetti is an observed state of matter.

**Xei** · 09-18-2009 01:59 AM

Well, if you're conceiving of a benevolent God, for instance, you can be 100% of his nonexistence, due to the indisputable empirical evidence for the fact that shit happens.

**Hercuflea** · 09-18-2009 02:13 AM

Originally Posted by Xei

Well, if you're conceiving of a benevolent God, for instance, you can be 100% of his nonexistence, due to the indisputable empirical evidence for the fact that shit happens.

OR...are we just perceiving shit to happen? Everything that has ever happened in the history of the universe has followed a certain set of rules...never failing: the laws of physics. Its much more likely that humans, through our retarded sense of the consequences of our actions, in other words our myopia, and the fact that we only use a fraction of our brainpower, not to mention the power of the mind, have misconceived the universe to be inherently evil.

**Xei** · 09-18-2009 02:17 AM

Actually I have faith in my abilities to make the rational judgement that entities such as the smallpox virus are bad things.

**Hercuflea** · 09-18-2009 02:29 AM

But thats only your perception. Yeah, they are bad to the human race, because they kill us. But they are only participating in what every form of life does, which is to kill or be killed; reproduce or die. Thats not to say that I think the smallpox viruses have rights or anything, or that im going to go start a new group called PETV, or people for the ethical treatment of viruses

Im just trying to get people to look at this objectively.