Heathen, Pagan, Atheist...

Bu2
Bu2 Posts: 1,693
edited May 2007 in A Moving Train
....Freethinker, Agnostic, Wiccan...

For those of you who don't follow any organized religion, what is your chosen term you use to describe your stance? And of the people you've had to explain it to, how many understood and/or agreed with you?

Just curious. I consider myself Agnostic, by the way. And I have to constantly explain it.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Astral nurse. I'm sure everyone agrees.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    i am an atheist. i explain it as having no belief in God. at all. not even a hint of doubt. most understand and disagree. some think i'm just full of shit. only 2 people i've come into contact with are in agreeance with me that i know of.
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  • Bu2
    Bu2 Posts: 1,693
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Astral nurse. I'm sure everyone agrees.

    Cate, if it isn't too personal a question, were you brought up with any religion or are/were your parents also atheist? I'm just curious.
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  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    I'm an atheist.
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Bu2 wrote:
    Cate, if it isn't too personal a question, were you brought up with any religion or are/were your parents also atheist? I'm just curious.

    i grew up in a secular household even though i was christianed catholic, made my first communism and confirmation. not sure about my mum but my father who was educated by various catholic priests is an atheist. i became an atheist at age 11. before that i was agnostic at best.
    none of my own children are christianed or baptised.
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  • seanw1010
    seanw1010 Posts: 1,205
    i am an atheist. i have to say this to people a lot, and some people really respond rudely, others dont really care. i cat stand when people resond like "you are going to hell" or some stupid comment like that(people have actually said this in the past)
    they call them fingers, but i never see them fing. oh, there they go
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    I'm agnostic meaning I'm not sure what is out there but I know something is.
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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  • angelica
    angelica Posts: 6,038
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    I'm agnostic meaning I'm not sure what is out there but I know something is.
    Back to the chat, you naughty girl! ;) *taps feet impatiently*
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  • prism
    prism Posts: 2,440
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    I'm agnostic meaning I'm not sure what is out there but I know something is.


    really? i'm agnostic meaning I'm pretty sure that there's nothing out there but i can't prove that for sure....ha
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  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    prism wrote:
    really? i'm agnostic meaning I'm pretty sure that there's nothing out there but i can't prove that for sure....ha

    you're the half empty agnostic and I'm the half full :p
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    catefrances wrote:
    made my first communism and confirmation.

    Cool, dialectical materialism, as a sacrament! :D
  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    I have never really given a name to my beliefs. I believe in the possibility of a higher power but not in the sense of a God that traditional religions follow. I don't believe that a higher power would deny us pleasures that hurt no one. But I guess for fun I would call myself a heathen ;)

    btw do people really tell other people they would go to hell? I am constantly amazed at the gall and ignorance of people :(
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    angelica wrote:
    Back to the chat, you naughty girl! ;) *taps feet impatiently*

    *hurries back* :D
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  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    small town beck wrote:
    btw do people really tell other people they would go to hell? I am constantly amazed at the gall and ignorance of people :(
    They do indeed. My daughter's mother-in-law told her that it made her very sad to think that their whole family would be going to heaven and my daughter would be in hell.
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • prism
    prism Posts: 2,440
    small town beck wrote:
    I have never really given a name to my beliefs. I believe in the possibility of a higher power but not in the sense of a God that traditional religions follow. I don't believe that a higher power would deny us pleasures that hurt no one. But I guess for fun I would call myself a heathen ;)

    btw do people really tell other people they would go to hell? I am constantly amazed at the gall and ignorance of people :(


    oh yeah they certainly do. both of my sisters have told me that i'm going to hell...though at least one of them finally got smart enough to stop telling me that when i told her that i was fine with that and she needed to be fine with it too because nothing she could say was going to change me. the other one can rot in hell (haha) for all i care.....she's too busy ripping off people in the name of Jesus
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  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    hippiemom wrote:
    They do indeed. My daughter's mother-in-law told her that it made her very sad to think that their whole family would be going to heaven and my daughter would be in hell.

    Some people :rolleyes: Pretty self righteous. I thought you weren't suppose to judge other people??? This actually got me thinking and I have a very dear friend and when she was two her oldest sister who was 8 was hit by a drunk driver and she was killed instantly. After the funeral someone told her mum that it was too bad that Tracey wouldn't go to heaven. Well if a fucking eight year old can't get into "heaven"??? Who the fuck can? :confused:

    I guess not me with my potty mouth :rolleyes: :p
  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    prism wrote:
    oh yeah they certainly do. both of my sisters have told me that i'm going to hell...though at least one of them finally got smart enough to stop telling me that when i told her that i was fine with that and she needed to be fine with it too because nothing she could say was going to change me. the other one can rot in hell (haha) for all i care.....she's too busy ripping off people in the name of Jesus


    ahhh I love the people who rip of others in the name of religion :rolleyes:. aren't they special? . When my mum was quite ill in the hospital she started asking me why I didn't go to church and then said "what would your grandfather think?" . The weird thing is that she isn't what I would consider religious.. anywho... She only said this because she knows how much I loved him and how close I was to him. so I simply told her that I think he would rather I do what I thought was right than to pretend to believe in something I didn't. I hate lying and fakeness so why pretend??? besides if all they said was true... wouldn't god already know that I don't always have "pure" thoughts ???

    did I kill this thread? :o
  • deadnothingbetter
    deadnothingbetter Posts: 2,202
    prism wrote:
    really? i'm agnostic meaning I'm pretty sure that there's nothing out there but i can't prove that for sure....ha
    what's the difference between that and an atheist?
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  • deadnothingbetter
    deadnothingbetter Posts: 2,202
    prism wrote:
    oh yeah they certainly do. both of my sisters have told me that i'm going to hell...though at least one of them finally got smart enough to stop telling me that when i told her that i was fine with that and she needed to be fine with it too because nothing she could say was going to change me. the other one can rot in hell (haha) for all i care.....she's too busy ripping off people in the name of Jesus
    sounds like you and your sisters need to make up
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    deadnothingbetter wrote:
    what's the difference between that and an atheist?

    'pretty sure' connotes some degree of doubt. atheists have no doubt whatsoever.
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