How atheist are you?

[Bow Before Zeus]

How atheist are you? In The God Delusion, Dawkins proposes a scale of belief in god (see below). I would like to find out how you rate yourself on the scale below. It might not be a surprise to most that I identify with a 7. Can I say I'm a level 7 atheist? Sounds a bit like scientology now!

Anyway, I have reasons for identifying myself as a 7. If someone were to ask me whether god exists, my response would be "No, god does not exist". I wouldn't say "Well, there's no evidence so he/she/it is unlikely to exist". My response would be far more direct than that. The reasoning is that if I was asked if there are fairies at the bottom of my garden, my response would be equally direct. "No, there are no fairies at the bottom of my garden". Sure, they could exist, but that would just be silly, wouldn't it? Nobody has ever observed them so I am totally justified in responding with a direct "No".

Richard Dawkins' Belief Scale:
1. Strong Theist: I do not question the existence of God, I KNOW he exists.
2. De-facto Theist: I cannot know for certain but I strongly believe in God and I live my life on the assumption that he is there.
3. Weak Theist: I am very uncertain, but I am inclined to believe in God.
4. Pure Agnostic: God’s existence and non-existence are exactly equiprobable.
5. Weak Atheist: I do not know whether God exists but I’m inclined to be skeptical.
6. De-facto Atheist: I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable and I live my life under the assumption that he is not there.
7. Strong Atheist: I am 100% sure that there is no God.

So how do you see yourself on a scale from 1 to 7 and what is your reasoning behind it?

[ignoramus]

100% Ignostic ---What the fuck is a "God"?

Is it nature?
Is it wonder woman's pussy?
Is it a 71 mach1 mustang?
Is it the smile of a baby?
Is it an old cunt in the clouds making us suffer for his amusement?

[Sal]

6.9999

[Bow Before Zeus]

100% Ignostic   ---What the fuck is a "God"?

Is it nature?
Is it wonder woman's pussy?
Is it a 71 mach1 mustang?
Is it the smile of a baby?
Is it an old cunt in the clouds making us suffer for his amusement?

From wikipedia:

While Paul Kurtz finds the view to be compatible with both weak atheism and agnosticism,[3] other philosophers consider ignosticism to be distinct.

So I'll put you down for a 5.

[LastPoet]

I find stupid the idea of rating disbelief. Dawkins is an exelent Biologist, but he sucks balls in this area.

[Bow Before Zeus]

I find stupid the idea of rating disbelief. Dawkins is an exelent Biologist, but he sucks balls in this area.

Maybe that's why I associate with Dawkins so much. He is a scientist and likes to classify and rate things. Very logical and procedural mind.

[paulpablo]

5.5.

I live my life as if there is no god due to being skeptical of religious claims.  But as to the probability of some sort of god, of any kind, it's not something that I think I could calculate or discover.

If I was pushed to guess I'd say there probably is no god, hence what I put as my religious views.

[Whateverist]

Somewhere between a 6 and a 7.

I'm pretty sure that no literal god exists which excreted the galaxies and attends to my mutterings and private sex acts. But I'm also pretty sure that whatever it is that gave rise to god belief is still knocking around in my old noggin right where it has always been.

My suspicion is that whatever kind of consciousness we had before we went all propositional and abstract, created us in its very limited wisdom when the demands of human interaction just got too fucking hard for a simple mammalian brain to process. From its point of view I'm sure our form of consciousness is as fascinating as it is abominable. But we get the job done and the body is mostly no worse for wear. Evolution has pretty much dictated that humans which ran Consciousness 2.0 would be more successful so here we are.

I think religion is mostly nostalgia for the old ways. But I don't think Consciousness 1.0 which we call God really wants a lot of interaction with us. He is over there in the passenger seat now and would be most grateful if we just kept our eyes on the road and our hands on the wheel. I doubt that our burnt offerings mean all that much to Him. But what do I know? Maybe He just adores the religious who put Him on a pedestal and conduct elaborate ceremonies on His behalf. Could be. But I picture Him as more of a parallel-play kind of buddy, not a hearts and flowers kind of Guy.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I am so fucking tired of hearing about this fucking scale. 

Boru

[SaStrike]

6 seems like the rating for me