Hello! A-gnostic only because religion doesn't factor into my life. If I've got a problem, I ask my friends who I trust to suggest things to me, and not a priest who I trust will do the same while exerting authority over me. I think that, if there is a God, he gave us reason so that we can figure things out on our own, not so that he could order around a bunch of relatively insignificant creatures who don't matter all that much in the present. If he judges me to be a person worthy of hell, then to hell with him. I try my best to be a good person, and if it doesn't measure up to his standards because I occasionally did stuff on Sunday, so sue me.

How old are you?

20. Tat was probably a bit of an agressive stance, wasn't it?

@Enkurfka Oh, just a tad.

Sorry. I'm tired of the sermonizing religious groups near me who act like I'm going to hell for not worshiping exactly what they preach...

Neutral agnostic, here.

Enkufka and KCK: That wasn't an aggressive stance at all, unless you two think that any and all statements that are even slightly negative towards a religion are 'agressive'.

@Enfurka Do you believe them?

@Funnyguts I apologize, I should not have said anything at all; the word I had in mind was not aggressive.

Not really. Religion to me is something you have, and its supposed to be a personal thing, and then they come to me and say that I'm going to hell for not believing in their facet of god.

Also, its Enkufka, not Enkurfka. No r.

@En: I like that stance XD

@Enkufka I am a very lousy speller, so my apologies. Also, religion—which is far too broad a term for this situation—is usually supposed to be a way of life; thus it should be shown through actions so keeping those actions to one's self would be defeating the purpose, depending on what the religion dictates.

What you're bothered by is a particular form of evangelizing, which is understandable; I am bothered by it as well.

Agnostic atheist here. I don't believe in a god, but I don't claim to know that there isn't one. As Dawkins says, I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.

Random question: What does everyone think of atheist/humanist rituals? For example, having a 'welcome to the world' ritual for a newborn in place of a baptism.

what the bloody hell are you talking about

Hollywood Atheist, reporting.

Agnostic atheist, though firm believer that if there is any possibility of a supreme power, it's not like described by any religion (expect maybe the small ones and Sikhism) and probably doesn't care about humanity.

I have some tokken interest in Buddhism, but it's mostly aesthetic. The same way, I like the Catholic solidarity, Sikh egelitarianism, and other different aspects of various religions. But just because the religions have positive aspects, I don't like the implication of a supernatural ruler being required to live by those positive aspects.

I am agnostic with atheist tendecies

and mainly, I am against faith, that is different than being against religion. I don't like the concept that "believe in something without seeing" or "You need to believe in something" is a virtue by any level.

That said, I am not really against in people having faith, as long they don't actively try to impose they faith my life. The problem is that faith does seem to cause people to go Well Intentioned Extremit and try to impose faith in others, so I am very paranoic about religious followers and I think is natural that they would try to destroy my freedom of though "in the name of the lord".

Well, I think it would be very hard to believe in nothing at all. For example, most of us assume that our senses give us an accurate account of our surroundings, but that's demonstrably not always the case. Furthermore, I think it would be very hard to function if you did not have some basic expectation of something like cause and effect.

So, I guess belief is something that is important, but it's something that ought to have a logical basis behind it for it to be most accurate and helpful.

I disagree it's foolish to believe in a god.

What do you disagree with, exactly?

You said "I think it would be very hard to believe in nothing at all" when in fact it foolish to believe in a deity due to the fact that science had proven that every clame in religious text is bullshit.

Could you link to this/these paper(s)?

Science has not proven if there is/is not a God.

Indeed, while the bible may not be literal (which most americans seem to forget) it is a book of faith. Many scientists are religious, or at the very least spiritual, and science cannot currently define what goes on after death. Having a bit of faith in what is to come is, paradoxically, not all that irrational.

Creation myth-proven false The Jesus story-rip off of multiple other older religious text