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Does it mean atheists are more open responding to polls about spirituality?
Having grown up in the church, I have honestly never found a good replacement for the sense of community and support that a church offers. Its a shame that no other non-religious organizations have been able to replicate it.
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> These people should just suck it up and call themselves atheists. Boy, look at you telling people what and how they should believe. I'm agnostic because I don't know if there exists a God, and couldn't care less when it comes to the day to day affairs of my life.
Right, so what you're saying is you're an atheist. It's okay. There are a lot of us. I don't know if there is a teapot orbiting the Earth, but I wouldn't invent weasel words to distinguish between subtle groups of people who have varied opinions around the likely absence of said teapot. Especially not if most of the population believed strongly in the existence of said teapot. edit: Also I'm not telling anyone how to…
The idea of religious engineers has always been one that fascinates me.
Even better, try biologist creationists. They exist!
You can be a Hindu atheist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charvaka
Swami Vivekananda popularized the Ramakrishna school of thought, but they themselves deny to be called Hindus.
Goa deputy Chief Minister considers himself to be a "Christian Hindu": http://www.firstpost.com/politics/india-hindu-nation-im-chri...
Hinduism in not an organized religion like Abrahamic religions. The definition of Hinduism is very fluid in practice.
Similarly one can be a Buddhist atheist as well.
PS: Also please add Sikhism and Jainism to the poll -- two other major Indian religions!
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False dichotomy.
How is that a false dichotomy? I guess there's the implication that there is only religious and non-religious engineers. But isn't that a binary? I'm curious as to what other options there are.
I dated a woman once who dated a woman just prior to dating me (I'm male). We were having beers with a mutual friend and upon hearing that fact, our mutual friend said "wow, I didn't know you were bisexual Jen" (not her real name). Jen's response..."I'm not bisexual...I'm Jen. I don't believe in labels."
I'm not Atheist, Agnostic, or Lutheran (the religion my parents chose for me). I'm Chad.
I haven't used a label for anyone's politics, religion, sexual preference, or other complicated matters since. Thank you Jen. The best part...you get to focus on getting to know someone on a personal level instead of arguing about definitions :)