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What is your religion?

What is your religion?

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C. Gerstle

C. Gerstle

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THIS IS NOT A RELIGIOUS DEBATE THREAD!! I just wanted to know the general religious background of this site.
 
Agnostic. Believe in a God but do not associate with any paticular religion. For me, thats ultimate secularism, practiced not just in politics but in the daily life, second from Athiesm. True secularists should also practise such in there daily lives.
 
Atheist. I don't believe in an invisible man.
 
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Germanic Pagan. Some tendencies toward New Age eclecticism when it comes to the big cosmological questions, but otherwise well-rooted in moral and spiritual tradition.
 
kaya'08 said:
Agnostic. Believe in a God but do not associate with any paticular religion. For me, thats ultimate secularism, practiced not just in politics but in the daily life, second from Athiesm. True secularists should also practise such in there daily lives.
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So how bad of secularists are Muslim Turks?
They seem to be doing a decent job of it.
 
I am an indifferent atheist. I don't believe in a god, and don't really care about the whole subject much. I just cannot manage to get worked up on religious subjects.
 
C. Gerstle said:
THIS IS NOT A RELIGIOUS DEBATE THREAD!! I just wanted to know the general religious background of this site.
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I'm curious why you lumped agnostic with atheist?

I'm with you--atheist. This belief in a god is a joke to me. If others want/need to believe in a god, fine. So my statement about it being a joke relates ONLY to me. (In other words, I'm not insulting those who believe in a god.)
 
Agnostic.

I do not claim to know that which I do not know.
 
non-denominational Christian.
 
Reverend_Hellh0und said:
I see god in everything I do. :shrug:
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Interestingly enough, I hear God in everyone I do.

"Oh god....OH GOD.... Oh GOD!!


OHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGOD, I'm.......!!!!!!
 
Devout atheist.
 
I picked atheist, but I don't regard myself as one, just as I don't regard myself as an a-unicornist. To me an atheist is a nonthing, and we shouldn't label ourselves based on what we don't believe in.
 
Agnostic is very distinct from atheist. Atheist is a leap of faith.

Myself, I'm Roman Catholic.
 
Laila said:
So how bad of secularists are Muslim Turks?
They seem to be doing a decent job of it.
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If Muslim Turks can implement secularism in there politics whilst being Muslims in there day to day practices, then thats good. But if one feels so strongly about his or her religion, it will, regardless of how secular you claim to be, inevitable spill over into your political views. So i believe Agnostic/Atheist secularists are the true secularists. Most Turkish politicians only claim to be Muslim but are not in practice, a bit like Obama and Christianity, so its okay. This doesn't account for the AKP, hence Turkey's Koran sliding in recent years. But that will all perish and they will begin to move forwards again when the AKP are dead and gone.
 
phattonez said:
Agnostic is very distinct from atheist. Atheist is a leap of faith.

Myself, I'm Roman Catholic.
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Everyone is an agnostic because no one knows, however there is no faith required to disbelieve or be skeptical of one's supernatural claims.

So just how is your lack of belief in Zeus a leap of faith?
 
Atheist.
Although I'm more of a dontcariest, but I guess that falls under the same category anyway.
 
non-denominational Christian.


C. Gerstle said:
THIS IS NOT A RELIGIOUS DEBATE THREAD!! I just wanted to know the general religious background of this site.
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You should have added "believer in man made global warming" to that list.
 
kaya'08 said:
But if one feels so strongly about his or her religion, it will, regardless of how secular you claim to be, inevitable spill over into your political views.
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Define strong. In what way?
 
Lachean said:
Everyone is an agnostic because no one knows, however there is no faith required to disbelieve or be skeptical of one's supernatural claims.

So just how is your lack of belief in Zeus a leap of faith?
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Because there is no way to disprove a negative. Skepticism is one thing, that could be considered agnosticism. Atheism however means that you believe there are no gods. It cannot be proven, so it is a leap of faith.
 
I am a Quranist Muslim to be specific.

But since there is no such poll, i'll just choose Sunni
 
Laila said:
Define strong. In what way?
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Someone who follows Islam to the last word of the Quaran, someone who lives and swears by it and implements it throughout his/hers daily life, decisions and views. And if not all that, than just one thing can dictate you are not truly secular; someone who is Muslim/Christian etc and is therefore biased to that sect. Secularists are not biased towards religion and therefore there own religion despite how secular they may claim to be does not shape there foreign policy, but is shaped purely on rational, strategical interests. For example, Indonesia doesn't particularly favor relations with other Muslim nations, nor does Turkey; because they are secular nations who share there values with other secular nations mainly in the west, the cultural/religious similarities are NOT the engine that turns the wheel of foreign policy, but again, rational and strategic interests with modern progressive nations.
 
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kaya'08 said:
Someone who follows Islam to the last word of the Quaran, someone who lives and swears by it and implements it throughout his/hers daily life, decisions and views. And if not all that, than just one thing can dictate you are not truly secular; someone who is Muslim/Christian etc and is therefore biased to that sect. Secularists are not biased towards religion and there biased does not shape there foreign policy.
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Sounds like a fundamentalist, not necessarily someone who believes in their faith strongly. Interestingly enough, in the early days of the Christian church, it was considered heretical to read the Bible entirely literally.
 
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