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Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland
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| Re: Atheist or Agnostic? I wouldn't label myself as either. I don't like labels generally as I think they are just societies way of pigeon holing people to make themselves feel more comfortable. Labelling someone as agnostic or atheist causes the same problems as organised religions. It's just a way of binding things up nice and neat with a list of rules and beliefs.
I was brought up catholic and both my parents were religious in different ways. My beliefs today are much simpler. I think there is some power to the universe beyond what we can see. Whether that is deity, science or other I don't know.
If you spend any time studying religions from pagen to modern day religions you are struck more by their similarities than differences. I know some pagan practices were actually adopted by christian religions.
Organised religion I believe has more to do with our need to believe in something outside ourselves that we can hold responsible for anything that happens outside our control. That doesn't mean there is no God just that the need to wrap up our beliefs in a set of rules and regulations bound up with ritualism is just our way of trying to control what we do not understand. |