Atheist/Buddhist
I think.
+hi everyone.
Welcome J4ck. You need help with anything, just ask [:)]
You could deny a deity simply due to ethics? If I somehow, someway knew for a fact Jesus rose from the dead, was the son of god, 3 in 1, etc I would have no choice but to be a theist. Ethics would have nothing to do with that decision.
Scientologist.
But I digress… [:P]
Cultural Catholic.
Evangelical Christian. (I am not joking.) If anyone is wondering, I honestly don’t care what you think about me or what I believe. And I’m certainly not interested in debating you. See, we can get along just fine.
I’m a theist. I don’t know what sect I belong to per se, but I respect most of the world’s major religions.
lol wut?
This is a very confusing response… [:P]
Whatever floats your boat.
That’s $cientLOLogist.
oh snap! [:O]
My ‘feelings’ on religion would be vague annoyance, my thoughts on religion would be that it is absurd magical nonsense. I am an atheist for the latter, and not the former, reason.
I know we’re part of a greater whole but won’t be seeing an old man with a white beard when we die. Instead we’ll likely just lose our ego while the essence of our spirit gets recycled.
Philosophically, I favor the Buddhist/Tao way of life and thought but don’t go to the temple for 5000 bows too often.
The culture of liberals? Thievery, quotas and censorship?
The culture of conservatives? Thievery, war, and censorship?
The culture of politics is slavery. Defining a culture by the party is most closely associated to doesn’t really work.
This is the part of religion that I really have a problem with. I don’t see why things should be that simple. If you know all these things, or some other religious set of things, I don’t see that this gives you an excuse to ignore ethical demands. I’m of the opinion that the Bible, if it has value, is valuable for the very fact that it gives us something to talk about. For instance, the last time I gave a commencement address (at a conservative prep school I taught at) I argued that Abraham, if he lived and did the things recorded in the book, was wrong, very wrong, to bring Isaac on the altar. If you know beyond a doubt that God exists, that God created the world and so on, and that God asked you to murder an innocent person, then I think the proper thing to do is to say that God is wrong about that.
Really? I took a few classes, but was not particularly impressed. Can I ask what the basic “tenets” - if there are tenets, or in any event, what the religion is about? I found that in these classes, I learned almost nothing about any beliefs.
That’s a lame argument, an axiomatic proposition. You presuppose God’s existence (an all good and all knowing entity) and then question his motives. That argument takes you absolutely nowhere. No one should start with religion; it’s a potential end of spiritual inquiry.
Speaking of lame, I just read a blog post on LRC by Lew Rockwell
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/044157.html
Disappointed he refers to people who believe in evolution as Darwinites.
“Meyer takes up the prior question of how the immensely complex and exquisitely functional chemical structure of DNA, which cannot be explained by natural selection because it makes natural selection possible, could have originated without an intentional cause.”
Pity the theory of evolution by natural selection doesn’t try to explain the origin of DNA. It only applies after the beginning of hereditability. Massive fail.
Rockwell decries mainstream economists for being ill informed, but this is just as pathetic.
Which is pretty much why for me libertarianism and AE beats the living **** out of other theories and models. It’s possible for people of different beliefs to get along so long as a few libertarian principles are respected. Not to mention being spot-on with economics, having a consistent ethical system, and being one of the more (if not most) intellectually honest schools of thought.
Atheist.
I stop at maiming or killng them, but I can’t get along with scientologists.