Any one here religious?

[jipchen]

atheist (also years before i started listening to metal. i listened to hardcore/punk, though )

 

[John_C]

I dunno, I've seen enough things in this world I couldn't explain to be 100% convinced that there's absolutely nothing of the supernatural out there, so agnostic here - the eastern view of a stream of consciousness (or lifestream, if you will ) resonates the most with me, but I'm by no means a buddhist/taoist/whatever, just not willing to say with complete certainty that there's nothing beyond our realm of existence.

go back 200 years and lightening was supernatural

 

[Line666]

Antichrist

 

[Felix Neumann]

I don't have faith in faith
I don't believe in belief
You can call me faithless
But I still cling to hope
And I believe in love
That's faith enough for me

Neil Peart

 

[ze kink]

Agnostic. I do not believe in a god, but I find many of the ideas in Eastern religions (especially different forms of Buddhism) very fascinating, and some of them match very well with the conclusions I've gotten to after thinking. I still question everything though.

 

[slashvanyoung]

Agnostic atheist.

I can't wholeheartedly deny the existence of a higher deity as I can't (and never will be able to) disprove an existence on levels that evade my human cognitive system.

And that's exactly the reason for the answer to this being ultimately irrelevant for my life.

Textbook-atheist dogmas are therefore as ignorant IMHO as textbook-theists.

 

[Metaltastic]

Agnostic atheist.

I can't wholeheartedly deny the existence of a higher deity as I can't (and never will be able to) disprove an existence on levels that evade my human cognitive system.

And that's exactly the reason for the answer to this being ultimately irrelevant for my life.

Textbook-atheist dogmas are therefore as ignorant IMHO as textbook-theists.

Couldn't have put it better myself

 

[Andy Sneap]

max cavalera has a beard of biblical proportions and wasn't Rick Rubin in the bible somewhere.....God or something?

 

[gabriel g.]

max cavalera has a beard of biblical proportions and wasn't Rick Rubin in the bible somewhere.....God or something?

if Rick would wash his clothes he might fit the God-picture

 

[AllanD]

Thanks guys.

For those inquiring, I'm just interested. When I left school the other day, some preachers were handing out tiny bibles. He asked me to take one and I just thought, what the hell, why not? I have never read a bible, it was an interesting read. Some brutal things and some noble things. I just thought it'd be interesting to hear from other people on the subject, as people in real life get offended/super pissed at how right they are about either side

 

[amarshism]

I love science therefore i dont believe in god.

Ive also died three times due to a pretty bad heart problem and i assure you there is nothing waiting.

 

[AllanD]

I love science therefore i dont believe in god.

Ive also died three times due to a pretty bad heart problem and i assure you there is nothing waiting.

REALLY NOW! What did you experience when you died? Just blackness?

 

[James Murphy]

my sig says it all, really. basically i'm agnostic, leaning heavily atheist. i'd say i follow an atheistic world-view, with a healthy respect for the knowledge that some things are just unknowable.

 

[SocialNumb]

On Christianity:

It's really an unpleasant book. I read that the "God" of the bible killed approximately 35 million people in said book. "Satan" killed 10. The KJV has repeating negative and or fear words: "evil" (657), "fear" (528), "death" (456), "sword" (443), "sin" (441), "blood" (415), "wicked" (413) and "dead" (399).

I did read the book multiple times but I didn't take these into account, nor can I recall. The leftover feeling seems about accurate.

Atheist, till proven wrong. including all religion.

Edit: I was agnostic for most of my life. I never questioned it before that.

 

[CatharsisStudios]

-Drum Solo-

Neil Peart

 

[James Murphy]

Textbook-atheist dogmas are therefore as ignorant IMHO as textbook-theists.

well... you don't really seem to know much about atheism... because there are no "textbook atheist dogmas"... there is no atheist dogma at all.

sure, all atheist do not believe in god, generally speaking (see below for elaboration)... but that's not dogma. in fact, you seem shaky as to what "dogma" actually means as well.

Dogma

• a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof
• a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative

nothing in atheism is declared true without proof, not even the existence or nonexistence of God. atheists don't make claims that god definitely doesn't exist, they merely state (and live their lives accordingly) that there is insufficient proof that god exists, so the presumption is that He does not.

and there is no "authority" for atheists.... there are respected speakers and authors, many of whom vary on loads of issues and points, but still manage to live without mutual proscription.

dogma is absolutely maladaptive and antithetical to free thought, and thus to atheism.






"Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs." ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith." ~ Thomas Paine

"There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages." ~ Ruth Hurmence Green

"All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties." ~ Mikhail A. Bakunin

"Without cultural sanction, most or all of our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance." ~ John F. Schumaker

"And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence." ~ Bertrand Russell

 

[KeithTidd]

atheist.

 

[TheDriller]

"If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him,"

- Mikhail Bakunin

 

[pattonfreak1]

<--- Christian born and raised.

 

[James Murphy]

Christianity = middle-eastern bronze age mythology

"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." ~ Christopher Hitchens