This religion board was looking awfully lonely, so I thought I'd start a thread here. Religion and theology are some of my favorite subjects for debate, especially when someone disagrees with me on the subjects because I know that my opinion is the right one, no matter what anybody else says.
So anybody who is interested in having such a conversation can post here. I'll first set some ground rules --
- No disparaging comments. We're a community here, albeit a relatively small one, and we shouldn't forget that. If we're going to work as a team toward whatever end, we can't go on holding grudges. Disparaging comments encourage grudges.
Yeah, that's about it. Keep it healthy and clean and open, and we should be fine. This is not a flamewar.
Something to start us off:
Where do you place yourself theistically? Are you a theist or atheist? Gnostic or agnostic? If you're a theist, do you have religion (there is a difference)? What religion might you subscribe to?
Personally, I am atheist, but am torn between gnosticism and agnosticism. That is, I can fairly solidly disprove most arguments for theism using logic, reason, science, math, statistics, or other well-established rules of the universe. In that respect, I lean toward saying I'm a gnostic atheist. However, proving the non-existence of a deity is a different chore. It's not that a deity is not provable or disprovable, but that it's untestable.
Interestingly enough, I see quite eye-to-eye with most agnostic theists, so I lean a little harder toward agnosticism. I can respect an agnostic theist. Generally, they're still thinkers and have placed a lot of consideration into the universe which surrounds them.
How about you dudes and dudettes?
