are you a christian or an atheist or neither?
2007-03-23 04:40:05 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Wonderful question... my Star!!
At that moment when one is not thinking about it, one is just oneself and not a label such as the Believer or the Atheist. Because nobody is perfect either way, no one can either be a perfect Christian or a perfect Atheist... perhaps that is why we get a label for ourselves and try to stick by it and keep reminding ourselves of our adopted label every other moment.
2007-03-23 04:48:53 · answer #1 · answered by small 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This being philosophy:
Mu - unask the question. You're asking if your skin is blue in total darkness, and that depends on minutiae like 'what does "being" mean'.
When you are not actively involved with - either mentally or physically - operations pertaining to them, the three choices you give - Christian, atheist or neither - are not sufficient. You need a 'mu' answer too. Saying 'neither' doesn't cut it, because it leaves open the possibility that other affiliations may be possible: I could be a Two Seed In The Spirit Predestinarian Baptist, a Dawkinist, A Buddhist, a God, a dog, a flower-seller, a Nazi, an Innuit, an infant - the list is literally endless.
Your question includes the Dicto simpliciter, Bifurcation and Interrogation fallacies.
I have never been a Christian.
I have no other religious affiliations.
I am frequently an active atheist - in word, thought and deed.
CD
2007-03-23 12:25:45 · answer #2 · answered by Super Atheist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christian
2007-03-23 11:44:37 · answer #3 · answered by Chris F 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have those moments. And at that moment I am a Christian living like an Atheist.
2007-03-23 11:49:50 · answer #4 · answered by 10 Point Shoe-In 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even when you're not thinking about it, you are whatever you are. Christian or atheist. I don't stop being a Christian, even when God isn't at the top of my mind at that moment. I don't stop being a woman even when I'm not thinking about it. I don't stop being a singer when I'm not singing or an artist when I'm not painting....
2007-03-24 02:01:13 · answer #5 · answered by amp 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It takes faith to be a christian or an atheist,to be an atheist you have to believe that God doesn't exist,and no one can
prove that.
2007-03-25 02:09:00 · answer #6 · answered by Gary B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I am not thinking, sometimes I am aware of being All of the Above and Everything Else.
2007-03-23 11:59:11 · answer #7 · answered by Todd W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a christian
2007-03-23 11:42:17 · answer #8 · answered by charles h 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What one is, is a state of being.
We are a triumvirate of what we think we are, what we say we are, and what we do that represents what we believe we are.
In a geniune state of non-thinking, the archetypal Zen 'empty bowl', one is...............
But you said "not thinking about it.......", I guess referring to the christian/atheist thing, which implies that one could be thinking of anything else........
In which case one could be ...........anything else.
Or anything you like...... ;-)
2007-03-24 00:45:19 · answer #9 · answered by cosmicvoyager 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For someone who e-mailed me saying cancer is good(see my questions) why are you asking questions like this,you should not be on here because you are a sick person,burn baby burn!!!!
2007-03-23 12:15:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋