There are Atheists, Monotheists, Polytheists, and Unitheists. Can you defend your choice?

Question

Atheists, there are no Gods.
Monotheists, there is only one God.
Polytheists, there are pantheons of Gods and Goddesses
Unitheists, all sentinent species are an element of a God

Pantheon: All Gods of a people-plural. More than one.

I was wondering if this forum had them all.

Answer 1

Unitheists, defended with Quantum Physics, String and M Theories.

Answer 2

Montheist

I believe that the creator is reflected in the universe. The universe (and all of physics) are very orderly obeying the same rules. For me this leads to belief that there can only be one creator.

I (as do many) have an strong desire to search for a creator and purpose as an inherent trait. I believe there has to be some design, evolutionary purpose, or interference from an unseen spiritual realm to cause this desire.

I see and feel some evidence for interference from a spiritual realm which impacts human thinking and perception in unexplainable ways. Therefore I believe there is certainly the possibility of a spiritual realm even though proof is impossible.

I see little if any evidence for interference with physics and evolution and such from God. So I reason that all that he purposed in the physical world (the time and place for future events) was set up from the beginning, in the initial conditions of creation.

Answer 3

Not all polytheists are pantheonists....but anyways.

I am a polytheist because I had a personal (and as such unverifiable) but otherwise unexplainable experience that ended my atheism. I believe what I have evidence for.

Think of it this way, if only 1% of 1% of relgious experiences are true and only 1% of people experience religious experience, then you are looking at 6,000,000 true religious experiences. However, since religious experiences are evenly distributed throughout the world, if there is only one god, and that 1% of 1% of 1% is true, then the only explanation for religious experiences is that that god is a nut who appears to people randomly and claims to be different gods.

But I can't "defend" my polytheism- if my gods wanted other people to follow them, they'd ask, like I was asked.... they'd never have a PERSON ask on their behalf!

Answer 4

Why? I can't see the "air" but I breathe and feel the wind on my face so I know it is there.
1000 years ago people "KNEW" that the world was flat and that curses are why you got sick not germs or virus'....I wonder what we will "KNOW" 1000 years from now?

I believe that the idea of "god" is subjective. I don't believe that there is only 1 way to believe but there is only 1 way to truly live...love each other-treat others as you want to be treated. Man does not possess the ability to judge the true intent only the result, God sees the intent and judges that in addition to the result. Forgiveness is divine, vengeance is divine---bigotry is human, fear is human.
I believe in the potential of mankind to overcome it's blindness....if we don't kill each other over whose "God" is better, because in the end they are the same just viewed from different perspectives.
peace

Answer 5

Nobody should have to justify or explain what they choose to believe. In a free world the freedom of religion and belief is held high. Where it all goes wrong is when a religion or it's followers attempt to impose it on others. Where that religion decries science and seeks to expel it from schools.

There is only one religion with those sorts of serious problems and that is Christians. Action was taken last year in Chicago, Canada, the UK and a number of other states and countries to curb the extremists in the Christian following.

Freedom of religion should also include freedom from religious persecution!!!!

Answer 6

Atheist.

no evidence beyond some scribblings in 'holy' books and rantings of madmen/prophets.

Plus a lot of the gods are mutually exclusive: they can't ALL have made the universe. Plus my model of the universe does not require a supernatural being, in fact it would complicate the model beyond belief.

I can't refute the 'everything is god' thing as I would be god too, as would you, as would everyone, this planet and everything. But if all is god, why are some pieces of god intent on murdering other pieces of god, sometimes in great numbers? (see world wars)

Answer 7

Defend my "choice"? To who, exactly?

I don't really feel that I made a choice ... I feel that I was sought out and chosen. The religion that I follow fits my personal values and experience. That's really all that I need. Its okay if other people don't understand it. Unlike some other religions, I'm not responsible for making everyone else believe the way that I do.

Answer 8

Why should anyone? Defense of belief is not the point, rather: absolute obedience to the law, pre-existent (supposedly) to a being; deference to belief structure without dissent. Religious belief doesn't tend to exist because it wants to have a really good conversation, it wants to solidify a populace around killing the other guys, who are doing the same thing to destroy "us."

Answer 9

Atheist.

Free will is a literal impossibility in the universe in which we find ourselves.

This contradicts all deific formulations except deism. As deism is nothing more than atheism that calls the initial formation of the universe 'Creator' instead of 'natural principles', occam's razor dispatches deism quite humanely.

Atheism is all that is left.

Answer 10

Atheist Defense: Prove there is a god.