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Posted: **Wed Nov 07, 2007 8:24 pm**

Can't believe it's been two years. Maybe I'm just missing the last one, but... Anyway, here goes.

Posted: **Wed Nov 07, 2007 8:55 pm**

Which one is the deist category?
I just learned from another thread that that's probably where I belong.

Posted: **Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:00 pm**

Good question. I put an "other" category on there, but I think I forgot to hit the 'add option' button.

Looks like I can't edit the poll options as a non-mod. I'd say agnostic is the closest, or you can wait until a mod or admin edits it.

Posted: **Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:19 pm**

Im a Christian. I go to a non-denominatinal Christian church. Very non-traditional. I know that there are many people that have ran into some very radical "hellfire and brimstone" Christians, but we arent all like that. I dont mind sharing with others that I am a Christian and I dont mind sharing my beliefs if asked. But I would never force my belief on others.

With one exception... my kids. I raised them to be Christian and have encouraged that belief. They can ask not to go to church if they like.. but as long as they live under my roof... when I go to church.. they go to church.

Posted: **Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:22 pm**

I voted my heart, not my heritage.

But like the last poll, I'm torn between two answers.

Posted: **Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:26 pm**

i don't know which one fits me best.

Posted: **Wed Nov 07, 2007 10:20 pm**

Catholic

Posted: **Thu Nov 08, 2007 3:47 am**

I consider myself a Christian, but my ideology is practically deistic. We can't pretend that God holds the reigns of all existance. Wrong exists in this world because of humanity, and we must strive to make this world as much like paradise as we can. That is the Catholic principle of Stwerdship, and free will. I think these ideas are vitally important to morallity, not zealotry and submission.

I believe that Morality exists independently from religion, and from God, so I also call myself a humanist. It is extremely dangerous to believe that the causes of every event on this earth are divine or diablic.

Posted: **Thu Nov 08, 2007 7:27 am**

How do you pick Buddhist and Christian at the same time?

Posted: **Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:38 am**

How about a Taoist Agnostic?

I can't see enough evidence for or against the existence of any type of god, and, after all this time, I'm not overly confident that I ever will. But whether there is or not, the principles of Taoism are Truth.

Posted: **Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:43 am**

Fist and Faith wrote:But whether there is or not, the principles of Taoism are Truth.

*nodding*

The more I read, the more I am coming to that POV, Fist.

I have a long way to go though...

Posted: **Thu Nov 08, 2007 12:10 pm**

Non denominational Christian. Spent some time in church as a kid but I found my faith as an adult. I have at times been the leader of a Christian rock band Clear Frontier.

Posted: **Thu Nov 08, 2007 5:01 pm**

Lucimay wrote:i don't know which one fits me best.

hmmmm, i wonder.

Posted: **Thu Nov 08, 2007 6:29 pm**

Non-denominational Christian. I was raised Lutheran, but stopped attending church regularly after high school. Combination of location, college, work and pure laziness. I don't attend church regularly now, though I do drop in from time to time. I don't really affiliate myself with any local church becuase, while I tend to agree with some of the official teachings, the unofficial ones, the things that the congregants tend to talk about among themselves, I find more bothersome. Maybe that'll change. But even though I don't attend on a regular basis, my faith is still pretty important to me.

Posted: **Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:25 pm**

Jewish. Actively questioning whether I am or not but that's not a contradiction.

Posted: **Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:41 pm**

KiGirl wrote:
Lucimay wrote:i don't know which one fits me best.
hmmmm, i wonder.

ag·nos·tic (āg-nŏs'tĭk) Pronunciation Key
n.

1. One who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God.
2. One who is skeptical about the existence of God but does not profess true atheism.
3. One who is doubtful or noncommittal about something.

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b]Word History:[/b] An agnostic does not deny the existence of God and heaven but holds that one cannot know for certain whether or not they exist. The term agnostic was fittingly coined by the 19th-century British scientist Thomas H. Huxley, who believed that only material phenomena were objects of exact knowledge. He made up the word from the prefix a-, meaning "without, not," as in amoral, and the noun Gnostic. Gnostic is related to the Greek word gnōsis, "knowledge," which was used by early Christian writers to mean "higher, esoteric knowledge of spiritual things"; hence, Gnostic referred to those with such knowledge. In coining the term agnostic, Huxley was considering as "Gnostics" a group of his fellow intellectuals—"ists," as he called them—who had eagerly embraced various doctrines or theories that explained the world to their satisfaction. Because he was a "man without a rag of a label to cover himself with," Huxley coined the term agnostic for himself, its first published use being in 1870.

so...i've always pronounced it AG-nostic, with a hard G sound, as i have heard most everyone who uses the term do. but now i'm thinking it should be pronounced A-nostic, with i silent G, considering the origin of the term, but dictionarydotcom says ag-nos-tic so i'm.....urg, non-commital.

Posted: **Fri Nov 09, 2007 1:58 am**

there's no Toltec option.......

Posted: **Fri Nov 09, 2007 2:02 am**

Esmer wrote:there's no Toltec option.......

You cut out live, beating hearts?

Posted: **Fri Nov 09, 2007 2:33 am**

I wish we had a bahai. Those guys are cool man. Srsly.

Posted: **Fri Nov 09, 2007 3:03 am**

The Bahai temple and grounds in Haifa is gorgeous.

...or at least it was in 1973 before the war...

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