Poll: Do you believe in God?

Philosophy Forums Religion and Spirituality
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Where do you stand?

  • Theist
  • Atheist
  • Agnostic
0 voters

This has probably been done before but I am thinking of creating a thread that will give various statistics on the current general population of ILP

So far I have one For ILP sexual orientation
This one…
And I think I have several on politics that I can dig up and may do some more…
Also have one on age I think…

Any ideas for other statistics to gather?

[size=50](Agnostic means you neither believe nor disbelieve, in other words you don’t know or are open to either given evidence. Atheist means you believe there is definitely not a god or rather fervently believe there is no God.)[/size]

[size=85]believe in the title. Felix Dakat][/size]

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Beards, Forms of Government etc.

I’m your first theist vote, though I consider myself a Panentheistic Polytheist.

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I’m agnostic, although I find myself moving towards atheism the longer I live and the more ridiculous religious arguments I hear.

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by some definitions of atheism, most agnostics are atheist, and by some definitions of agnosticism, most atheists are agnostics.

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It’s true, I’m what they call an agnostic atheist, which means I will not believe that God exists unless I see evidence to the contrary; let’s face it I don’t expect to, but I think the room for doubt makes me less than an atheist proper. I like the idea of a spectrum that puts you in more than one set of the three things. I am not a great believer in just arbitrarily saying all agnostics are atheists and so on.

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well it’s not arbitrary if it’s based on reasonable definitions. if you fit in to a category based on the definition of that category…well, then you fit in. it’s just a matter of specifying the definitions before you get into the conversation.

In this case, the OP didn’t specify the definitions, which is a shame. I mean, I don’t know if I should put agnostic or atheist if I don’t know what he means by those words. Is an atheist someone who knows for sure that no intelligent being created the Earth? If so, I’m not an atheist. Is an atheist someone who just doesn’t believe in a God? If so, yes, I’m an atheist. Is an agnostic someone who says “The existence of God is unknowable”? If so, I’m not an agnostic. Is an agnostic someone who says “I personally don’t know whether or not a conscious being created the Earth”? If so, I’m an agnostic.

I personally prefer the latter definition of atheism, as it makes more sense etymologically to me than the former one (a etymologically meaning “absence of” or “without” and theism meaning “belief in deities”), but I understand that some people use more limiting definitions.

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I don’t know what you are talking about… it was defined in the OP… you just have to be more careful to read the small print… :smiley: :evilfun: :laughing:

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I believe in Faith. As for God, that depends on your subjective definition. Your definition of Him probably does not match my own.

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No, God is a pipedream.

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How?

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Yes, I believe in Gray.

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I ran into this on a thread on the Bethsoft forums.

:laughing:

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I believe it is impossible to proof or disproof the existence of a God so I picked the Agnostic option.

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That would be the response of a retard. Science might wax lyrical on the Earth being 6000 years old, but it has nothing to say about God or religion broadly which is a philosophical issue for the most part.

He is putting up the classic because we don’t know something science is flawed fallacy as well, aka god of the gaps, where science isn’t with no evidence, God is; of course there could be a million and one plausible answers, but somehow religion is the only one. Science doesn’t know everything, triffic I must tell the papers. :unamused:

Oh and science doesn’t use terms like percent accurate! Unless it’s about a specific value and not the overall theory itself.

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No, he’s saying thats the layman atheists argument of “Science disproves God” therefore “religion be wrung”.

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I know but it’s dumb. :slight_smile:

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Ignorance is not a commodity.

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One moment while is slide my window to the right and hide those idiotic smilies–children must have their toys, even if us older people with glasses must trip over them scattered all over the living room. I long for good old fashion discipline. Anyway, this is about God… again… yawn!

Must it be one or the other? A mountain exists… perhaps in the Andes, perhaps in Tibet, perhaps only a hundred miles from me. I have no argument with the mountain. There may even be a time when the mountain will be relevant to my day to day life. But for the moment it isn’t. So it’s live and let live. I go on about my business, the mountain, seen or only heard about, goes on about its own business.

“Believe all things, believe in nothing.” So went the Teaching. This post could just as easily be about pink elephants. Someone would write: “Hey! I saw two pink elephants fly over my house last night!” Why get into an argument over the possibility of pink elephants? I didn’t see them, and they didn’t fly over my house, that I know of, so the only comment would be, “Neat!” or “Cool!” or “Hey…”

God exists because people gerenally insist that God exists. No problem with God existing. No problem even with God interacting with the “God exists” people. Problem arises when the people (not God!) come to the door, or charge you on the street to insist that unless you believe what they believe, you are going to hell. Problem with that is, if the majority of those who believe go to heaven, the wise would certainly choose hell as her eternal abode. At least “they” would not be there.

The problem with this God thing, as with any belief system, it that it sources from the Matrix, from the programming. No one talks about God, everyone talks about her-himself, usually within some institution. Hence the problem with the God thing is that people deny themselves their chance at self-empowerment; their chance at waking up one morning and seeing the sun from their own, personal, viewpoint.

So then, to answer the question: I know that God exists but I do not believe in God.

Oh, and I see a thing here at the bottom that says “disable smilies”. I’ll do just that. Perhaps the planet needs that option regarding God? Just a thought.

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Make a poll for how many people believe there is a giant tea-pot orbiting Neptune. Give the options Believe, Don’t believe and Can’t say.

The divergence between the corresponding Theism, Athism and Agnosticism and those will show the extent to which logic is ignored/bypassed in the treatment of religion.

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Interesting thoughts. Agnosticism and atheism are easily mixed up. I don’t believe in God, but I don’t believe that God could not exist.

I consider myself agnostic.