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I am

Theist 96 20.25%
 
Atheist 178 37.55%
 
Agnostic 96 20.25%
 
Spiritual but non theist 29 6.12%
 
Other 32 6.75%
 
God. 43 9.07%
 
Total:474

My evolution of my beliefs on religion went like this, agnostic to religious (christian) to agnostic to atheist over the years. I'm pretty much an atheist but I believe in the possibility of gods.



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Atheist -> agnostic here. I think it matters only as much as knowing your own personal history or the history of our species matters. Ymmv. But again the term God can be applied abstractly to many ideas. Is God the creator of this physics simulation we live in? Or is God merely the creator or predecessor to mankind as we know it. Or perhaps "He" is a metaphor for the infinite sound wave that is the universe.

 

 

In my opinion, the jump between man and our supposed closest relative, the chimpanzee is too large to be identified by a 1% difference in our genetic database. Something, someone, or perhaps a group intervened and played a role to what we were in the past and what we are today.



Outside the boundaries of the moment, nothing else matters. God is beyond reach.



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Zoombael said:
Outside the boundaries of the moment, nothing else matters. God is beyond reach.

In this plane or dimension, sure.



It does matter, as then you would have read the bible and learned the importance of using paragraphs :p

I chose the last option, I don't believe and am too lazy to look up the difference between atheist and agnostic, I simply don't believe in any god(s)



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o_O.Q said:
PEEPer0nni said:

laws

laws change with the times or in other words they are subjective

So is morality



Nobody cares about God, even the religious. It's only the 'life after death' bit they're actually interested in.



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o_O.Q said:

objective morality 

Theres no such thing, with or without religions. 



Anyone else feel threads like these should just be perma-banned? We all know how this is going to turn out.



o_O.Q said:

it does because without god objective morality cannot exist

All primates show signs of morality. It's "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" type of relation, where wellbeing of whole group is more important than individual gains. It's pretty basic, natural behaviour, which simply pays off and chimpanzees or gorillas don't need God to explain this.