I consider "taking it straight from the bible" to be fundamentalist.

You obviously aren't agnostic because you don't know why people are.

You could easily say that peopel are christian because they are just afraid and need something to comfort them for when they die.

Alright. I'll tell you what I cannot stand.

I cannot stand people who are saying things like "EARTH CREATED IN 6 DAYS. IF YOU DON'T THINK SO, YOU'RE WRONG. THE BIBLE SAYS SO" I'm sorry, I have a hard time believing in 6 day creation of everything around me. Yeah, I know, faith, don't give me that crap again. I've heard it all.

What I can't stand it people who take the Bible word for word. Our priest has come in and talked to my class at church, we've asked questions, and somehow gotten onto how litterally to take the Bible. He said that you should NOT take it word for word, especially when you get into places like Revelations.

I cannot stand those kinds of people, and I cannot stand those who try to change their churches beliefs because they don't agree (We have 5 baptist churches in my town, 3 are run out of people's houses because they didn't like what their old church taught).

Religion is a device used to keep people from becoming too depressed about how insignificant their life is in the span of the entire universe.

Not that that's a bad thing. It provides hope, strong morals, a drive to live a good and profitable life... all that fun stuff.

I dunno, I sort of just have my own pseudo belief system that doesn't make much sense to anybody other than me, but that's okay because the only person it applies to is me.

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Deist. I believe in God. Or a god. In a connection between nature, religion, and people's lives, if you will. But, to be frank, I couldn't care less about organized Christianity.

EDIT: Eeek.

Hey man, speak for yourself. I'll guarantee that the Apocalypse will be brought about by an immortal, seven-headed dragon.

a.k.a DrkJedi's penis. We already covered this.

I heard a joke that said,

A Baptist was shipwrecked alone on an island for a nearly a year,
When he was finaly rescued, the rescuers noticed that he had made 3 buildings.
When asked what they were he said, "One is my house and one is my church, and the other the church was at before I got mad and left."

I am a baptist, I voted fundie.
Found this online quiz that, while some of the questions were kinda iffy, it hit the nail on the head.


I certainly wouldn't hold this quiz to be accurate for everyone but it was for me.

I'm of the opinion that race, creed, sex, and sexuality are of the most trivial human traits.

What, in your opinion, are the important ones?

Agreed. I hate elitism.

I could, and often do, say that.

That quiz claims I'm a Wesleyan, but looking at their description of Wesleyan doctrine, I'm very skeptical about that. I'm not much for the whole "total depravity of man" kick.

I'm curious about what Postmodern/Emergent means, as that's my second result.

That quiz sucks ***.

http://beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html

That one is better

Agnostic. Simply put, if there's a God, homo sapiens sapiens won't come to me and tell what is he like.

I have to say the Bible is an interesting book, though, but taking that stuff seriously...?

I am a nihilistic existentialist morally relative secular humanist. Or something like that.

I'm a member of church so I guess I'm officially Christian, but I don't believe there's any deity, and I don't believe in afterlife.

I belong to the church, and I have no intention to leave it, but I haven't believed in God for a long, long time. I'm in just for cultural reasons, and for traditions.

I voted for moderate, anyway. If I had voted for nonreligious options, I guess I shouldn't belong to the church.

Exactly what I think.

Yeah, I'll go with the above too.

I see religion as something that should be personal, not organised. I have a friend from university who had a deep religious experience and "found" god, which I respect. Whether I believe or not is irrelevant, it's made him happy and that's all I see as important. Believing in something because it's all you've been told is not something I agree with.

So as far as I'm concerned, I've had no reason to believe in any higher power, but I'm not going to rule it out, because I haven't have any definitive proof the other way either.

Having said that, I definitely believe in all scientific proof and find people that don't just bizarre.

I could've voted agnostic for all the difference there might be, but I'm going for other: ignostic.

I don't know if there is a God, I don't know if there isn't, and I don't think it actually matters. I agree with some of the things people get from religion, basically how we're supposed to behave towards each other, and I try to go through life being a nice, reasonable, honest person. But then, I'm not doing it to get on God's good side, or for the satisfaction of following the teachings of a book (for example), I'm doing it because I personally believe it to be the right thing to do.

NAILFACE!

Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to McDonald's makes you a hamburger.. :p

I don't go to church, except for funerals and such.

Athiesm. If I'm wrong, well, playing cards with satan every Tuesday won't be that bad.

wtf no 'Jedi' option!? :p

Despite living in "The Bible Belt", I have never been to Church for anything other than a wedding. Even more oddly, I feel a connection to the Catholic Church despite the fact that everyone in my family doesn't have anything good to say about them, and the number of Catholics in the area is miniscule. I can only think of two that go to my school...

I'm Mormon and voted Fundamentalist, but I didn't want to.

I know that I am always happiest when I'm following the teachings of my religion, and I believe very strongly that Jesus loves everyone.

I also really dislike Christians who go and make the whole relgion look bad by being stupid. But I also dislike "atheists" who see those people and conclude that God must not exist based off what those people do. That's not thinking for yourself. It's mindless rebellion.

I think the way that it works for me like this:

I like the way the Catholic church does everything, with all of their traditions and seriousness and view on the Bible, but I don't completely line up with their beliefs. For instance, I'm quite undecided on the pope issue, and I don't deem the virgin mary all that important. Not to mention that they have a very sketchy past.

Therefore, according to my old history book the Church of England seems right up my alley. It mixes Catholic ideas and church traditions with preaching and non-popeness. However, I don't live in England.

Is the episcopal church basically the Anglican church outside of the UK? I had heard that before somewhere, but I've also heard that mountain dew makes you sterile.

Actually, I think it's the Episcopal church that makes you sterile.

Better stay away from that then, :p

Religion is a device most people need (for your reasons or not). People have a need to believe in something higher. Not because of ignorance or insecurity, either. Even in our enlightened, modern society, there are questions we can't answer. Science can't explain why we are here.

I think it stands to reason there must be someone higher. And I don't understand how athiests and agnostics can ignore this.

[QUOTE=Lord Kuat]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athiest



http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=atheist



I hate the whole atheist/agnostic thing. Do you believe in a funny man who hides in the clouds: y/n. If no = atheist. If yes = go on to question 2: Do you believe in miracles? Where ya from? You sexy thing

You can't believe "I dunno". You can believe there is no god, because of lack of evidence, but be willing to change positions otherwise. You can't be perfectly 50/50.[/QUOTE]

No, I'm definately not 50/50. I'm pretty sure there's no God out there, but I also accept that there's a possibility I'm wrong. So I suppose, now that I think about it, that that means I'm an atheist who is just open to the idea that he might not be right? I'm definately swaying more and more atheistic in my views anyhow. But I can't just say for certain that deism isn't right - it's possible that maybe there was some higher power taht triggered the start of the universe and that was it. I don't see any problem with saying that I'm not sure that deism isn't correct. It would be ignorant of me to say that it isn't possible, as much as I believe contrarywise.

I've decided to declare myself an eggnostic.

Egg nog, egg omelettes, good stuff for all.

Our creed is that we really aren't sure either way, but we do believe it is possible to know, and that if there IS a god, that it probably does matter.

Why should science have to "explain why we're here?" Why does there have to be a reason at all?

Humans are so arrogant.

Science is a method used to understand the universe we live in. Science cannot explain why humans are here for the same reason a hammer can't tell the time. You don't understand what science is.
No it doesn't, and atheists and agnostics can ignore it because there is no evidence supporting it.

Why do we have to have a reason for being here? What would be the purpose of us? What do we do but live and continue our species. As far as I'm concerned, our purpose is to survive. I don't see why people need to believe that there's some reason for us to be here in order to be happy.

To be fair, I think that he was saying that science can't explain it because science isn't supposed to explain it.

i don't really see why everyone has to argue about why we are here. isn't it enough that we are here now? is it going to make a profound change in who you are to learn about what happened in the past? you should be more focused on what you can do now to define who you are.

I really agree with that totally.