Why are you (still) a Christian?

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Introduction (atheistforums.org)

Position On Religion


I've labeled myself as atheist but I'm not sure if that is entirely accurate and complete. I'm irreligious, agnostic and atheist I suppose, but don't like being labeled as a part of any group. Prior to getting online I had very little if any interest in religion. I was mostly interested in music, reading and sports as hobbies. I've always been fascinated by what people think and how the way they behave compares to what they think and allegedly believe. Since getting online that has taken me down some interesting corridors, metaphorically speaking. Recently those sorts of corridors seem, if not completely closed off then certainly less explored. Which, of course, makes them all the more compelling to me. I will probably have to censor myself in that regard. 

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I don't think so, why? 

I think all of those labels are nonsense and unnecessary. As I've said here repeatedly, I'm not Christian. I don't identify as such, for good reason. I wouldn't wipe my ass with the Nicene creed, it's politically motivated pagan nonsense. Christ didn't teach what Christians teach. I've never been baptized. Who would I entrust to do that? The JWs are the closest but they are false prophets and harbor pedophiles from the law. 

Am I a theist? I believe in, that is trust, some gods, not all of them. That's even more complicated than my response to Christianity above. In general I would identify as a form of theism called henotheism but like any other that is undoubtedly corrupt and confused. 

Am I atheist? Not really, but like I said, some gods I believe in others I don't, but my identifying as atheist above, as I said, wasn't accurate or complete. It was, more than anything, just an irritant. Did I continue on as an atheist in pretense? No. But I just said it knowing you would see through it and it would piss you off because you are ideologues. IMO. 

Am I irreligious? Most definitely, but only with organized religion. Not to the origins of religion, and I think that individual religious belief should be respected. Not organized religion, though. Then you have to take into account that definitions of religion vary. To me everyone, including myself, is religious. It just means an (allegedly) strict adherence to a specific set of principles or belief. As Oxford's dictionary says: "a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance." Science and atheism certainly falls into that category. "But, waaa! Science and atheism aren't a religion!" Yes. They are.