Which group do you fall into?

Question

Are you absolutely certain that God is real...?

Do you sometimes have doubts but manage to ignore them.. ?

Do you secretly dis-believe in God's existence...?

...or are you wise enough to see the shortcomings of the first three groups and identify yourself by one of several names that mean you're a "non-believer."

Your answers please...

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I can't decide this.... Every answer is correct and as good as it can be....I'll cast a vote in a day or so. Until then, I recommend that you call on a friend to lend support for your answer. Good luck to all and thanks for your responses. randy

Answer 1

I secretly disbelieve.

....****, my secret!

Answer 2

Absolute non-believer. Even as a very young child I always thought that religious beliefs seemed as fake as any fictional story. And the older I get and the more I learn and the more I think and the more I learn about religions.... the more my intuitive disbelief gets backed up by logic, reasoning, and evidence.
Many believers claim that they can't imagine how anyone can NOT believe. I have the opposite view point. I can't imagine how people can honestly think that stuff is real. I can't stress this enough. It's as if billions of people go through life honestly believing that The Lord of the Rings is a true story. Or that Superman really exists and can save them.

Answer 3

I lack belief in the supernatural.

I'm in awe of the universe -- you could even call it spiritual. I believe there are fantastic, marvelous things waiting to be discovered and understood using science. But I don't attribute my awe to belief in a simplistic, supernatural belief system made by humans a few thousand years ago. The universe doesn't exactly revolve around our species. Why should I buy into a system that demands "faith" and reduces our reality to a psychological prison?

Waiting for heaven or hell, catering a short life to a belief system that cannot be proved, or that requires denying the beauty of a universe that works on natural mechanisms: That would be a horrible way for me to live.

I also wait to be proved wrong. Nobody has come up with a compelling argument for the existence of a god.

Answer 4

I really don't fall into any of those options.

What I believe is responsible for 'All That Is' is 'All That is'. Some may call that god, some may identify that as lacking belief in god. I just don't feel compelled to identify my belief as Theist, Atheist, anything in between or to funnel my belief into a list of options. I don't mean to be offensive in stating that btw. Your question is very interesting and I am curious to read other responses.

My belief in that which is responsible for 'All That is' is simply indescribable in spoken language but it is substantiated through science and ~ get this ~ religious parallels. Not any *one* religion but parallels in all of them. At the heart of the various religions are the same principles.

Answer 5

1. God is real. but not in some stupid spiritual way. God is not an allknowing bearded man, nor is it an energy. I just think that it is everything thad doesn't deal with energy/matter/known phenomona.

2. I never have doubts. I am always right.

3. Believing that I "dis-believe" in god's existance would mean not believing in anything unknown. That would mean that I believe humans know everything. So I never secretly "dis-believe" in god.

Answer 6

I'm an agnostic so I don't wander too far into either camp. I don't see how anybody could profess to "know" for a fact about something like that. Belief is one thing; I can handle religious people who say: this is what I believe. But when they claim knowledge,certitude - I know I'm listening to a bone-head. But I feel the same way about atheists who claim they "know" there is no god,etc.

Answer 7

I believe that ANY intelligent, and reasonable person who has spent his life on a quest for truth, will " fall into" all of these groups; starting with belief, and on through doubt to disbelief.
If you're not intellectually lazy, and you're willing to sit down and read the bible completely, without a self-serving, predetermined conclusion, you will surely not be gullible enough to buy into these childish stories.

Answer 8

Not an agnostic. Not an atheist in your sense of the word. Not a Pantheist but closer to that than an atheist. There is an interconnective underpinning of the cosmos we don't (yet) understand. Call that god if you want to, but I don't think "He" is interested in the outcome of the World Series or if little Johnny will ever be able to walk again.

Answer 9

Absolutely certain God is real. I'm a believer.

Answer 10

I am agnostic, not secretly; I do not pretend to be a believer nor attend any religious institution. I think that I am a member, then, of your final group. As an agnostic, I am definitely a "nonbeliever", my inability to believe being the source of my agnosticism.

Answer 11

Or maybe I'm wise enough to see the shortcomings of all but the first group. If only one had experiential knowledge of religion, these questions will be moot and academic.