How strongly do you believe?
I was wondering, what people believe, and how that relates to how absolutely they believe. For instance, most Atheists don't exclude the existence of god, you can't really falsify anything. God, easter bunny, Allah, all possible. Yet very unlikely, especially the personal, Christian-specific (Mormon, Roman catholic) god.
I have the feeling Theists, on the other hand, are more 100%, absolutely certain of the existence of their god.
Vote away.
p.s. I see the chance of a specific Christian god existing, as smaller than 0.1% percent.
How do we define what a 'god' is, anyway?
For my part, I'm totally agnostic for three reasons:
a)An all-powerful, all-knowing God is (at least according to my view of the world) completely indifferent to humanity, so untestable *and* irrelevant to humans on any sort of personal level
b)A 'god' need not be all-powerful and all-knowing to convince a human of his divinity
c)Beings of greater power and greater intelligence almost certainly exist somewhere. In fact, some clever humans have been able to convince others of their own godhood.
I have yet to see/touch/feel a being that qualified as a 'god,' but I like to think that a human who loves his fellows unconditionally would be worthy of some kind of worship. After all, the only being that can truly be *greater* than a human is a being of greater benevolence(though one may debate the status of an infinitely benevolent, powerful, though witless being). Beings of greater malevolence are universally agreed to be lower on the scale of divinity than humans, despite whatever power or intelligence they may have.