POLL: Ron Paul supporters religion.....

[Luther]

Non-practicing Buddhist.

Do you consider Buddhism to be a religion? I consider it to be a philosophy, but I am not too well informed about it.

 

[Ibtz]

Catholic here.

 

[indivi]

I'm confused... An atheist is someone who claims there is no God. Yes? Or am I wrong? This is a logical fallacy. Unless you were all knowing, which would sort of make YOU God, then you could not possibly rule out the existence of a supreme being. An agnostic I can perfectly understand, someone who claims they just don't know, but making an absolute claim that there is no God. This scares me more than religious nuts do.

Am I missing something here?

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A bit, yes. An atheist simply thinks that there is no reason to believe that any sort of supernatural entity exists. I agree with you that it isn't logically sound to completely rule out anything, which includes (as the popular memes go) things such as the Flying Spaghetti Monster or the Celestial Teapot, each of which from a logical standpoint have the same amount of evidence supporting their existence as any "real" religion's god. The atheist's view is, "The absence of proof for a god's nonexistence does not constitute evidence supporting said god." Logically, the burden of proof is on the one who posits a claim (in this case, that being the existence of a god), not on those who seek to dismiss the claim.

I think that people who call themselves agnostics are usually people who either haven't heard of most atheist reasonings and have drifted away from the religion they've grown up with, simply don't care much one way or another, or just don't want to start any arguments. As such, agnosticism is more of an "undecided" category. As an atheist (raised Catholic) myself, while I do not believe there is a supernatural power such as a god in the universe, I certainly do not rule it out completely. I would go so far as to say I believe that the gods of our religions very probably do not exist, but that is not the same as saying that I know for a fact that these gods do not exist.

I must say I'm a bit surprised to see so many votes for the Atheist/Agnostic option. Combining the other options, most are still Christian as would be expected. Maybe the proportion of nontheists is a bad sign, indicating that the movement hasn't attracted enough Christian Conservative support yet?

Hm, seems I got beaten pretty badly on this post, but I hope it helps clarify the matter. What's great about this movement is that everyone can really come together; we have a great variety of supporters from all paths and persuasions. We aren't divided by things like this, and we recognize the freedom that everyone has to believe or not believe whatever they want. What else can I say? RP08.

 

[Vladk1000]

My thinking is that if there is no way to prove it, then it automatically defaults to the negative.

 

[Birdlady]

I've got to say F YOU FRANK on this one.

 

[amy31416]

Non-practicing Jew.

 

[MedicSean37]

agnostic

 

[hambone1982]

"Angry"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iVSBBJtLuNo&feature=related

 

[HazardPerry]

Muslim

 

[quantized]

nice poll.

 

[Discobolus]

other...deist

 

[jpa]

you should put non-religous / agnostic together. Atheism doesn't go with agnostic.

(I voted non-religous since you had atheism grouped with my first choice, agnostic.

 

[AdoubleR]

Muslim

 

[Goeran]

Atheist

 

[Matthew Zak]

Yeah, grouping atheist with agnostic is almost insulting... that, to me, is like grouping libertarian with liberal. Just... no.

 

[wildflower]

Former agnostic and very unreligious for most of my life. I started believing in '98, but because it was such a big change for me, I didn't jump into it right away. 2 years later I became a born again Christian, on July 9, 2000. Definitely the best thing to happen in my life. Since then, I've done some missions work and studies through a christian organization. I made a little video here about the great commission, if anyone wants to take a look.

 

[skeet]

I'm a Christian (non-denominational) I hang out with a bunch of sinners like Jesus did.

 

[eloquensanity]

Former agnostic and very unreligious for most of my life. I started believing in '98, but because it was such a big change for me, I didn't jump into it right away. 2 years later I became a born again Christian, on July 9, 2000. Definitely the best thing to happen in my life. Since then, I've done some missions work and studies through a christian organization. I made a little video here about the great commission, if anyone wants to take a look.

Very inspirational video Good job.

 

[romeshomey]

I'm a deist.

 

[enjoiskaterguy]

Mormon(we really are christian).

I am proud to be a mormon who doesn;t support Mitt Romney. The majority wil just vote for Mitt because they belong to the same faith. Just wrong I tell ya, just wrong.

Losts of agnostics and aitheists...wow. Couldn't care less, but interesting. Power to the people.