I don't believe in the mainstream religions out there i.e. Christianity, Islam, Judaism and so forth but I believe the earth was created of something not necessary from a "god(s)."
The creator(s) isn’t the personification that most religion based their faith (the personal god) but could be anything from the universe itself to whatever is out there.
I don’t believe in an afterlife or worship/pray to anything/anyone. I don’t think this creator(s) knows we even exist.
I believe in evolution, the big bang theory and the science. I think that we are stardust (we’re carbon based life-forms) from a supernova or nebula.
So what am I?
2006-11-22 10:46:18 · 32 answers · asked by Reload 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sounds like deist to me. You believe in a some type of god (a creator) so you're not an atheist and "agnostic" is just a modifier word.
2006-11-22 10:48:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I would say Deist. Most describe it basically the same way you have. Agnostics usually have an "I don't know" attitude or "we can't know fully". While Atheists don't believe there's any type of creator at all. But since you believe it was Created, then I would say you are Deist.
2006-11-22 11:10:07 · answer #2 · answered by Kithy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You sound more like an Atheist than an agnostic. I am agnostic and I still reserve the probability that God may be for real. The way that I see God right now is that he is nothing more than the natural laws that govern the universe, I just find it emotionally unsatisfying to pray to the law of gravity.
2006-11-22 10:53:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
This defines my dad's beliefs almost to a "T."
I don't really know how to classify him either, but I call him an "agnostic theist."
An agnostic is someone who doesn't believe that the existence of a deity(s) is PROVABLE, but being an agnostic does not dictate whether such a being exists or not specifically. A theist is someone who believes in the existence of a higher power (or more). My dad is both because he believes in a higher power that he cannot prove the existence of. He believes in theistic evolution (the big bang, the billions of years of development, evolution, and physics, but god(s) is responsible for it). He does not pray, or go to any church of any kind, or believe in ghosts, or other supernatural things. If it were not for his belief in the existence of a higher power, he's be an atheist. This sounds like close to what you are.
My vote is "agnostic theist."
2006-11-22 11:21:27 · answer #4 · answered by Lady of the Pink 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sounds like an atheist leaning deist to me, or just an atheist, if you can say, "I don't believe in a god or gods," which is not really clear to me in your description there.
Agnosticism is a philosophy about knowledge, and really has little to do with belief. It says we have no way of knowing if a god exists. You can be agnostic and atheist or agnostic and theist, etc.
I am an agnostic atheist. I think that there's no way to know whether a god exists, but I think it is so highly unlikely as to be absurd and I don't believe one does.
There are atheists that believe that aliens created the universe, for example. Aliens are not gods, and so the people that believe this are still atheists.
2006-11-22 10:48:52 · answer #5 · answered by Snark 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I would say that you are agnostic if you don't know if there is a god(s) at all. ( agnostic-Definition:
One who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God.
One who is skeptical about the existence of God but does not profess true atheism.
One who is doubtful or noncommittal about something.)
You would be a deist if you for sure believe in a god(s). (deism:The belief, based solely on reason, in a God who created the universe and then abandoned it, assuming no control over life, exerting no influence on natural phenomena, and giving no supernatural revelation.
Deist require the beleif there is a creator.
2006-11-22 10:57:52 · answer #6 · answered by sharebear213 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are a Deist. I agree that there is no personal god, yet the Creator (or God) does exists and quite possibly doesn't even know that we exist. I, too, believe in evolution and the Big Bang.
2006-11-22 10:49:52 · answer #7 · answered by The Doctor 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
An Agnostic. Atheist's deny the existance of God(s) alltogether, Diests don't believe the answers come from holy texts, or devine intervention, they believe that God must be sought through reasoning and and observing the natural world.
Agnostics believe that something out there may have created life, but they don't believe in the mainstream ideas of God and what-not.
I'm agnostic, it really is the best place to be. Right in the middle.
2006-11-22 10:51:01 · answer #8 · answered by dirty_class 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I was going to say maybe agnostic, but you sound like a mix. lol I think it's up to you to decide. I personally also think that the closest thing to a "god" is the universe itself since it is up to it if we live or die. But not a being, and I don't believe in gods, so I consider myself an atheist.
Edit: Maybe you should give this quiz thing a try, it seems to come up with pretty accurate answers. http://www.beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html
2006-11-22 10:49:55 · answer #9 · answered by Indigo 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
well... deism doesn't really fit what you're describing, deism is when a god creates the universe and then abandons it .. but you believe in big bang.. atheist, maybe.. but they don't believe in any god... agnostic is when you say maybe, maybe not, and fess up that no human could possibly KNOW if there is a god or not or what "religion" the god is...
but why are you trying to label yourself in the first place?
2006-11-22 10:53:35 · answer #10 · answered by bensbabe 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋