(April 18, 2019 at 6:02 am)Thena323 Wrote:(April 18, 2019 at 4:19 am)AtlasS33 Wrote: I would say that some of the people abandoning religion -even some of the atheists here- are not turning their backs on God: they are actually turning their backs on the corrupted religious institution.
Lol...There's a term for that, and it's not atheist.
I believe it's called "Spiritual, Not Religious", or irreligious theism.
For the record, that's not where I'm at in terms of belief. Nor is misotheism.
I haven't turned my back on God. I don't think a God or gods are probable.
Though I did casually believe at one time, I harbored many, many doubts. I didn't ponder them for too long because it was uncomfortable and I did get the sense that my belief was a reasonably effective means of maintaining emotional well-being, at the very least. So I pushed them aside, until I felt I no longer needed to.
Once I began entertaining those doubts more consciously and honestly, the belief diminished and fell away.
Or as holly-rollers prefer to put it...the Devil made me do it.
If the devil had an organization it would be the religious institution to be fair with you. So it is the devil's action that caused you to disbelief
But you doubt the existence of God, so that doesn't make you an "irreligious theist":
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreligious_theism
Quote:Irreligious theism is the belief that there is a higher being, but doesn't follow organized religion
I personally believe that a religion was already revealed by a higher being -it was a series of revelations across history that ended with Islam's Quran-.
I was pushed though to the edges of non-belief but the design of the universe kept a lot of question marks active with no explanation but this: there's a high, intelligent God moving the strings, and he didn't forget about us here on earth, and sent us a long chain of prophets preaching his message to us.
That's not irreligious theism.
