(June 30, 2017 at 11:37 am)Die Atheistin Wrote:(August 11, 2011 at 1:28 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Since people tend to be very varied in their "Religious Views", the amount of atheists on this site is relatively unknown. I can't be bothered to go around and count the number of "none", "anti-theist", "are you kidding me?" responses, so I'd like to post this very simple poll.NO
It has two options. If you believe in some sort of God (doesn't matter if you are a Christian, a Deist, a Wiccan, etc) then answer "Yes". If you don't believe in God (and that includes people who don't think the question is relevant), answer "No".
I just want to keep things very simple; I don't want to cause a debate over terms; if you think you believe in God, answer in the positive. If you don't think you believe in God, answer in the negative. If you are unsure what you believe, don't answer at all.
You can discuss your votes below; in fact this is encouraged as it will keep the thread highlighted in search results and so more people will be able to vote. Hopefully we'll be able to get most of the active users within a few days.
I used to, and my family still does, though they are moderate christians. They don't believe in Hell and they don't hate other religions or atheism.
My dad believes in an afterlife though, and he said more than once that the most important thing is to pray to Jesus.
My mom is uncertain about the afterlife and doesn't see other religions as inferior, but she once said that she will never change her religion or her domination. I asked her why, she replied me "Because I feel so".
She told me, that we may never know if a God exists or not, but praying gives you positive energy. WTF?
So she's clayming that you need to imagine that an invisibile being exists and protects you in order to be happy, rather than seeing the world for what really and surely is?
I really love my mom, but this statement is just silly.
This seems to make nonsense of the claim that religion can have something of a placebo effect when you consider how much stress it must bring to them to be so uncertain about something so trivial that never would have entered the equation at all without being led to believe in it. And it really shows when the people who seem to fear death most are the ones who believe there is an afterlife, on their deathbeds, it ain't pretty.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.