FSTDT 2013 Religion

[SpaceProg]

Christian.  I try to follow the words written in red and the Golden Rule is very important to me.  I believe science and a belief in God can co-exist, and I'm not a Fundy Christian by any means.  I believe God intends us to ask questions about this universe (and any other possible universe(s) )that we're in.  I believe things happen for a reason and the universe isn't quite as chaotic as it may first appear.

I guess that's about it.

[RinellaWasHere]

Roman Catholic, as detailed in my thread.

[Material Defender]

Non-Religious Agnostic, who is totally willing to accept a belief in God and other supernatural forces that may have an effect on life or afterlife, but is not going to believe them without good reason. I also see the value and worth in religion and will not decry it like it is evil either or a delusion. Just I feel it needs to be critically decided upon and there needs to be an understanding that there is a separation between what believers believe and how they act. Everyone is fallible.

I tend to ascribe to a modified utilitarian philosophy since it is relational based goals that are good for providing a society to be built on and provides a rational, math oriented metric with which to judge 'goodness' that is not culturally biased either for or against. Though I tend to use "What provides most overall long-term happiness to the most people" as what is welfare and utility, thus ascribing some ability to take pain for the sake of long term good.

[Askold]

Christian.  I try to follow the words written in red and the Golden Rule is very important to me.  I believe science and a belief in God can co-exist, and I'm not a Fundy Christian by any means.  I believe God intends us to ask questions about this universe (and any other possible universe(s) )that we're in.  I believe things happen for a reason and the universe isn't quite as chaotic as it may first appear.

I guess that's about it.

What he said.

Well, I'm not so sure about the universe not being chaotic.

[Sour Grapes]

Disorganized Christian.

I tend toward the agnostic side when confronted by Organized Christianity.  Especially the ones that practice indoctrination.

[Stormwarden]

Atheist still trying to work out where he stands in the freethinker spectrum. I have nothing against religion in general, but I can't help but hate the Abrahamic God sometimes...

[DrFishcake]

I refer to myself as a "Carl Sagan agnostic", since I found his eloquent explanations as to why he considered himself agnostic to pretty much perfectly describe how I feel.

The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.

[Vypernight]

Agnostic Buddhist and huge skeptic.  My wife claims that, while I want to believe in ghosts, if one slapped me in the face, I'd think it was my imagination. 

Also, The Devil is my part-timer.

[TenfoldMaquette]

Atheist, because lolgod.

The longer explanation for "lolgod" is simply that the evidence doesn't bring forth anything whatsoever to justify a belief in any god, and thus I feel comfortable knowing (insofar as anything can be "known") that such a concept exists wholly inside the human brain. We dreamed up the gods because we're just sentient enough to realize how awful sentience is; we can understand what the final loss of ourselves really means, whereas animals in general are thought not to have this capability. "God" is both a precursor to science - an attempt to explain things not yet understood - and also attempt of the fragile human psyche to justify its actions and protect itself from reality. It's also fake as hell, hence the lol.

Yeah, I rant and snarl about it way too much. It's difficult living in a world where 60-75% of the population insists on believing on some form of the "magical invisible friend" and would rather comfort themselves with lies then face reality.

**Edited to get rid of unnecessary stuff

[LeTipex]

To put it simply : atheist.

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Ooh, boy...

If you really need to get to the bottom of things, I can sometimes tend toward pantheism, in a "if there is a divine, he is what IS and no more". But that would be a blind god with no purpose other than to exist. And there I get mad, because if there is such a divine, we are divine, and our purpose insofar as there can be a purpose, would/can/maybe/seems to be to understand the world. We are, as someone much better than me put it, a way for the universe to discover himself, the "brain of god", in a way, or one of its brain anyway, no yet sentient or sapient. Maybe, in a few million years, we (or another specie much like us in a way) will understand the universe perfectly. In that, they will, in a very real sense, for me, "become" the god-universe. It has something of Theilard de Chardin's heresies, mixed with a lot of atheistic pseudo-spirituality (because I hate that word, spirituality,  but can't seem to find another). A weird mix.

[R. U. Sirius]

I generally just call myself a seeker. Right now, I'm most heavily influenced by Buddhism and Gnosticism.

[Auri-El]

Liberal pantheistic Christian here.

[Sleepy]

Atheist here. I see zero reason to believe in any deity or any afterlife.

[Lady Hylia]

I am agnostic (or possibly deistic) though I do sometimes lean towards eclectic paganism. But in general I am not particularly religious.

[Dakota Bob]

Atheist cuz' no good evidence of existence of deity. Also, the holy books I've read are pretty off the wall stuff.