.1%? That is actually a rather large percentage... |
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Atheist. 100% certain there is no god.
Atheist. Not Absolutely, 100% certain there is no god.
Christian. 100% certain there is a god.
Christian. Not Absolutely, 100% certain there is a god.
None of the above. Can agnosts even be 100% certain about not knowing if for sure?
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. |
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.1%? That is actually a rather large percentage... |
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Maybe if you were visited by those unicorns. |
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Where is the 100% belief in Krishna option? Thor? YHWH? |
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I started to say wtf, what does that last statement mean? Then I saw who started the thread and understood the irony. I think. I'm a little buzzed so I could be w4ong. |
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What he means by the last statement is, Does it even make sense to say "I'm 100% sure that I'm not sure" |
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For my part, I'm totally agnostic for three reasons: |
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Heh, not trying to start anything, though I doubt it can be helped. But I find it interesting that no Atheists are not 100% certain on the denial of the existence of a God. |
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Where's the option for Deism. |
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I am a Christian, and my belief is pretty solid. It's not absolute, but if you put it into a number, it's up there in the 90s. |
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Are you dreaming?
YOU GUYS WANT PROOF OF GOD? HUH?! |
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Hush! Shhhh. The grownups are talking. |
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I don't fi into the Christianity-Atheism spectrum but I have pretty thorough beliefs that I take with a grain of salt. I believe the natural world can be completely understood through the five senses with no need for faith, as long as one understands the importance of doing good and giving love. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
But those last two statements are faith based ideas. Look at monkeys, given the chance they beat, kill, and eat one another. Do you think they developed the concept of "brotherly love" from the natural world? |
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No, they don't but they still know love if they don't understand it. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
I only have about 90% belief that there is no God, although that rises to 99% when thinking about specific gods like the Christian and Muslim ones. |
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There's a good reason for that. It goes to show that most people (at least of those who voted in the poll) who consider themselves "non-religious" or "atheist" aren't as closed-mined as the theists would have you believe. In fact, we are very open-minded. We only expect extraordinary proof to back up extraordinary claims. |
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Neruo, you should have put more options..none of these apply to me |
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What would apply? |
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Exactly. |
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“What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'” -Hume
I guess I choose the agnostic one, but it's not about not knowing for sure. Personally, it's an either or thing or both, and there's no way to tell despite the swarthiness of the science world. There's no point in strongly believing because it all ends up in faith, whether you have faith that science prevails or faith that there is a God. Whatever happens in the end happens, making most of the arguments I've seen here obsolete (whether it be the theist's or atheist's, but ya never know ). |
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Look out on a summers day,
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