Sticky: [ Poll ] What is your belief system? (Revision)

What belief system do you profess?

Christianity		34.2%	[ 2636 ]
Islam		1.6%	[ 123 ]
Hindu		0.5%	[ 40 ]
Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist		24.9%	[ 1918 ]
Indigenous (Chinese traditional, African traditional, South American tribal, etc...)		0.6%	[ 47 ]
Buddhist		4.5%	[ 347 ]
Judaism		2.3%	[ 180 ]
Spiritism (Yoruba, New Age belief, etc...)		4.3%	[ 332 ]
Neo-Paganism		13.9%	[ 1071 ]
Other (Sikhism, Juche, Baha'i, Jainism, Shinto, Cao Dai, Tenrikyo, Unitarian-Universalist, Zoroastrianism, Scientology, Rastafarianism, etc...)		13.2%	[ 1017 ]

Total Votes: 7711

This poll closed on December 29, 2003.
No longer accepting new votes.

[chaosdragon1107]

Sir Tit McMuffins

Apatheism...Which is best described by a quote from the 100s AD.

"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. I am not afraid."
-Marcus Aurelius

I completely agree with this statment. It really says everything that I believe in and sums it up.

[KutuluDreams]

Sir Tit McMuffins

Apatheism...Which is best described by a quote from the 100s AD.

"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. I am not afraid."
-Marcus Aurelius

How do you define good? What is considered good by one person may be considered bad by another; morality is subjective. So, live a good life according to whom?

[Spooky Electric]

I generally self-define as apatheist but that doesn't quite describe my 'belief system'. For me, the question of whether or not there is a god doesn't enter into my life at all. I don't believe there is one, I don't believe there isn't one, I don't even generally think about it unless someone brings up the subject. It's a completely irrelevant topic to my life and I don't generally spend time on it because it doesn't matter.

Apatheist Extremist, I guess.

[uniballoon]

follow the heart

[Jwlonna_Mariner]

I am a Christian. I don't like labels though. I think God calls you to the church or denomination where you will best serve Him. heart Peace

[mariafox]

hmmmmmmm. christian i guess. razz and i only went to church one time in my whole life

[Jwlonna_Mariner]

I am a Christian but I don"t label myself with any one denomination. I was raised a Southern Baptist though.

[Too Lo Fi]

Sanguina Cruenta

They're both looking at the same jar, yes? They can both see it? Why would the Christian say there's a number totally exceeding the number they can see?

The Christian in your analogy would only say there are one million dice if it indeed did appear to them that there were one million dice. (And perhaps it did.) Point is, Christians aren't just pulling the concept of god out of their asses. They believe because it appears to them that god is real.

When considering your jar of dice, it is a jar that appears to have a different number of dice in it depending on who is looking, and what direction they are looking from. And their understanding of the concepts "jar" and "dice".

I think you missed the point of the jar analogy. The Christian has no physical evidence of a God, therefore the number is equally as ridiculous. An atheist has reason to believe there is not a huge man in the sky because it is implausible, this is like an educated guess. Secondly, it doesn't matter which way you look at the jar, we understand the volume of a jar and the mass of the dice. The logic applied is what the anology is pointing toward.

[Too Lo Fi]

KutuluDreams

Sir Tit McMuffins

Apatheism...Which is best described by a quote from the 100s AD.

"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. I am not afraid."
-Marcus Aurelius

How do you define good? What is considered good by one person may be considered bad by another; morality is subjective. So, live a good life according to whom?

^ I like this guy. Haha