What Religion are you?

[Mamba]

All religions were created by man. Its pretty obvious, because the time when religions were created, there were no governments to set up rules, no common consent. Everybody must just have acted after their own morale.

That knowledge pretty much prevents me from believing in any religion, and if there is a god somewhere hes just a powerful alien.
As guidelines religions helped pretty good building societies, the people who invented them were smart to do that because they bring some sort of order.

Its pretty funny that 4000-2000 years later we are still not smarter and think religions have to rival.
That tells something about human evolution.

Oh and IF I believe in something then its the flying spaghetti monster. That religion is so valid like all the others.

[ManOfWar]

wow this thread is still kicking? lol!

When your not face to face with a person, religion is always easy to talk about

[Gorath]

because the time when religions were created, there were no governments to set up rules,

 
What history did your professors teach?

[Adam_Bomb]

I'd be willing to bet that humans (and our bipedal ancestors) have always had some form of superstition or religion, and I'm sure it WAS the government.

[DANK]

I'm not religious, but I think if I was I would take major offense to the groupings in the poll.(different takes on same)??

[Soldier_of_God]

When your not face to face with a person, religion is always easy to talk about

Thats true, although true religion is best drawn on the canvas of life, rather than weaved into conversations. not to say noone talks about it! thats why religious groups exist.

[hyena]

I actually envy people that have faith, it must be nice having that sense of security and conviction.

I do not dismiss religion nor do I embrace it, I suppose i'm agnostic in the sense that if I saw evidence of a supreme being I would follow them without question, although that of course is contradictory to the essence of 'faith'.

I will just.. wait and see what happens when I die! I do not approve of strong atheists, for I feel that it is the right of anyone to believe in what they wish, and also it is impossible to prove 100% that a God of some sort is not real. I just respect everyone beliefs, as to them, it is as real as the sky is blue.

[7000bc]

A satanist around christians, christian around atheists, atheist around muslims, muslim around jews,  and strongly anti-philantropist.

[KaMiKaZe_JoE]

I worship myself, being essentially perfection incarnate. I am God.

[Sultan Eren]

Deist

[Kafein]

I'd like all football supporters that chose the "no god" category to revise their copy and choose the last one instead. It's way more realistic.

Half joke, as allways 

[EponiCo]

No objective proof of god/gods = no reason to believe in god/gods. No, Bible nor Qu'ran nor Pali Canon nor Torah don't count. :V

Yes, I think Stephen Hawking has a respectable say in this for his scientific accomplishments. His quote about human consciousness as a sum of neurological connections and hormonal/electrical impulses is as far as we can get at this moment. Why make assumptions based on primite societies beliefs that were to satisfy human curiosity about the world?

If you didn't have a 'soul' before you were born why would you have one after death? Or do you now have to (Lord knows why...) rely on scientific knowledge about conception / psychology / whatever?

Physicalism (or Materialsm) faces a big problem. We've banned a lot of stuff we can directly experience (color, sound, pain etc.) from the natural sciences. Yeah, you may say light has color, but in science it's really just a metaphor from primitive societies for energy levels, and it reaches only your eyes not your brain, so it plays no role anyway. Now, if you are really saying that all this consciusness stuff is caused only by interaction of neurons etc. you have to explain how those colors etc. are caused. Afaik there has been not a single theory the scientific community takes serious. There's a few who make claims with nothing to back up, there's a few who write big books about it (like Hawkings collegue Penrose) who get accused of using quantum mechanics as a new pixie dust, then there's others who say it's impossible. Making any of those positions look like they are scientific is as unscientific as you can get.

[Pdogg5954]

What history did your professors teach?

Believe it or not, many historians are not considering the possibility that religion predated and necessitated governments and civilization. Look up the Göbelki Tepe temple in Turkey.

[verinen]

Personally- agnostic atm, but I think really serious about chadzianity.

imo relligions are very good for communities- less murderers, rapers etc.
Atheism is only for mentally strong people, who don't need fictive friends and can handle the fact that we are nothing more than wiser monkeys- our lives don't mean more that lives of ants.

[7000bc]

Personally- agnostic atm, but I think really serious about chadzianity.

imo relligions are very good for communities- less murderers, rapers etc.
Atheism is only for mentally strong people, who don't need fictive friends and can handle the fact that we are nothing more than wiser monkeys- our lives don't mean more that lives of ants.

Or it's for people who like to take comfort in thinking that they have absolute control over their lives and enjoy the delusional "fact" that they are invincible and no one can possibly hurt them.