Religious persuasion ?? ?? ??

[Nomaken]

I am not a big fan of any religion.  I don't think I can find answers from philsophy and yet all the religions just seem like simple guesses.  So far, I don't care mostly.  The only way I care is during a vote.  Otherwise I don't have faith in any religion.

[McGiver]

i wish to create my own philosophisicle.

good for you and comes in all different flavors.

[Litigious]

What will you call it? McJaggerism? 

[McGiver]

anti philosophicism?

[Litigious]

Maybe. That sounds confusing enough to make people interested. 

[Scrapheap]

I just realized that I forgot to include Pastafarianisim.    Stupid me. 

[duncvis]

[Teejay]

Either Atheist or Evangelical Protestant depending on the mood.

[El]

Either Atheist or Evangelical Protestant depending on the mood.

I think that averages out to agnostic.

[Thagomizer]

Hey, I could go for that. It's the monotony that would get to me in heaven.

What monotony? Ever read Tolkien's "Leaf By Niggle"? That's what Heaven is believed to be like. A happy place, but a place where there is actually work to do.

So far, I've never heard anyone make a convincing argument as to what there is in Hell worth experiencing or "reigning over".

[Thagomizer]

Agnostic theist is a bit of a contradiction.

To that I give you Madeline L'Engle:

"At a church conference recently someone asked, "You have referred to your agnostic period. What happened to get you out of it?" and I replied joyfully, that I am still an agnostic, but then I was an unhappy one, seeking finite answers, and now I am a happy one, rejoicing in paradox. Agnostic means only that we do not know, and we finite creatures cannot know, in any intellectual or ultimate way, the infinite Lord, the undivided Trinity, Now I am able to accept my not knowing--and yet, in a completely different way, in the old biblical way, I also know what I do not understand, and that is what my agnosticism means to me. It does not mean that I do not believe; it is an acceptance that I am created, that I am asked to bear the light, knowing that this is the most wonderful of all vocations."

[Scrapheap]

Agnostic theist is a bit of a contradiction.

To that I give you Madeline L'Engle:

"At a church conference recently someone asked, "You have referred to your agnostic period. What happened to get you out of it?" and I replied joyfully, that I am still an agnostic, but then I was an unhappy one, seeking finite answers, and now I am a happy one, rejoicing in paradox. Agnostic means only that we do not know, and we finite creatures cannot know, in any intellectual or ultimate way, the infinite Lord, the undivided Trinity, Now I am able to accept my not knowing--and yet, in a completely different way, in the old biblical way, I also know what I do not understand, and that is what my agnosticism means to me. It does not mean that I do not believe; it is an acceptance that I am created, that I am asked to bear the light, knowing that this is the most wonderful of all vocations."

This makes no sense. It still contradicts itself.

[In The spaGhetto]

it's got a wikipedia entry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnostic_theism
ergo it must be a valid belief

i agree that agnosticism has become too vague a word to have a meaning by itself - lots of types now:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism#Qualifying_agnosticism
I'm a lapsed catholic turned agnostic atheist - aka strong agnostic/weak atheist if we need to categorise things.
I don't think it'll ever be possible to decide if there's a god, and my feeling is there probably isn't.
like russell's teapot

[Scrapheap]

Meh, Orwellian double speak.

[Calandale]

Hey, I could go for that. It's the monotony that would get to me in heaven.

What monotony? Ever read Tolkien's "Leaf By Niggle"? That's what Heaven is believed to be like. A happy place, but a place where there is actually work to do.

So far, I've never heard anyone make a convincing argument as to what there is in Hell worth experiencing or "reigning over".

Suffering is a kind of pleasure.