Am I taking the easy way out religion wise by considering myself to be an existential theist?
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Posted by Darshanik Jul 12th, 2012 at 10:39AM
Do you mean to make a leap of faith and believe in a God who cares, but that God cares in a universe that itself does not care?
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Posted by FlowersNButterflies Jul 12th, 2012 at 12:00PM
Easy way out? You are who you are and you believe what you believe. That is all that is necessary.
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Posted by JeNeRegretteRien Jul 12th, 2012 at 11:27AM
Religion itself is the easy way out.
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Posted by heavyduty1 Jul 12th, 2012 at 11:14AM
Yes and more power to you. You rely on an omnipotent, unknowable 'something' to keep your world intact, while freeing you to hop and skip about with careless abandon. No fault, no foul. Carry on, carry over, karaoke; may the light always shine down on you!
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Posted by Vatervon2 Jul 12th, 2012 at 10:41AM
Strictly, if you're an existentialist then surely you have to believe "Absence of evidence is evidence of absence" - in other words, you missed out the letter "a" before "theist".
At any rate, that's how I worked it out, although I still wouldn't like to have to argue my position against, say, Kierkegaard. :-D
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Posted by crystyan28 Sep 25th, 2012 at 7:51AM
true religion is what you believe or want to believe
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Reply by valtater Sep 25th, 2012 at 7:53AM
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Reply by crystyan28 Sep 25th, 2012 at 7:56AM
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Posted by Warren21 Sep 15th, 2012 at 6:58AM
Doesn't that just make you agnostic? ;)
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Posted by hartfire Jul 12th, 2012 at 10:29PM
No, I don't think so.
Would love to chat with you a bit.
I'm somewhere between atheist, theist, agnostic and thinking about it a fair bit lately.
I practise Buddhism, but not in any religious sense.
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Reply by valtater Jul 13th, 2012 at 2:11PM
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Posted by wuliheron Jul 12th, 2012 at 11:20AM
Easy way out for a pseudo-intellectual who doesn't really understand much theology or philosophy maybe. I suggest actually learning more on both subjects.
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Reply by valtater Jul 12th, 2012 at 11:25AM
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Reply by wuliheron Jul 12th, 2012 at 11:49AM
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Posted by cloudedjourney Jul 12th, 2012 at 10:52AM
I think the real easy way out is agnostic like me :)
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Posted by BlueXian Jul 12th, 2012 at 10:43AM
It depends what you consider the problem to be. Or if it's a matter of just you and your personal beliefs you can assign yourself any label, it wont change what you actually believe.
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Posted by themarvelousme Jul 12th, 2012 at 10:42AM
You can call it whatever you like. But if you want to be correct and otherwise free thinking. Atheism is the way to go.
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Reply by irdumb Jul 12th, 2012 at 10:44AM
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Reply by themarvelousme Jul 12th, 2012 at 1:59PM
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Posted by EarthlingWise Jul 12th, 2012 at 10:41AM
Putting your eggs in different baskets? I understand not believing in god is not the norm in the states, so daring to think differently is not so easy maybe.
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Posted by timanonymous Jul 12th, 2012 at 10:40AM
Why don't you just let go of the bullshit altogether and just stop believing in superstitious nonsense. It's the sensible thing to do.
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Posted by lms2 Jul 12th, 2012 at 10:38AM
I am not going to google it... but if you picked this just because you think it covers all your bases... you will find God doesn't let you off the hook that easy.
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Reply by irdumb Jul 12th, 2012 at 10:46AM
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Posted by monkeysintheattic Jul 12th, 2012 at 10:38AM
philosophy and one god?
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Posted by Lucinnda Jul 12th, 2012 at 10:38AM
sounds good to me!
of course it depends on whether you enjoy/plan on having a lot of conversations where people want you to define terms, etc.
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Reply by valtater Jul 12th, 2012 at 10:40AM
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Reply by Lucinnda Jul 12th, 2012 at 10:44AM
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