Cathlecs are not christians even though people base them as so
And you get the "gross ignorance of your own religion" reward. Roman Catholicism is the Christian Church founded about 2000 years ago by Jesus and the Apostles. Protestantism is a break-off faction formed by people in the Middle Ages who were fed up with the Papacy. Middle school history much? Pay attention during history class. --------------- I am not Christian. In fact, I don't even believe in the Christian God. But, I do believe that most of the moral teaching in the Bible are good, and I believe in those. Basically, I believe mostly in the Christian Morality, but not the religion.
And you get the "gross ignorance of your own religion" reward. Roman Catholicism is the Christian Church founded about 2000 years ago by Jesus and the Apostles. Protestantism is a break-off faction formed by people in the Middle Ages who were fed up with the Papacy. Middle school history much? Pay attention during history class.
"Religiously phenomenist" sounds relatively compatible with some forms of agnosticism.
Ahhh, I was thinking all agnostic had elements of theism in them. Don't they?
Nope! As you've pasted before, there are theist agnostics and non-theist agnostics. I don't really understand the position of theist agnostics, though, seeing as it seems to say both "yes the propositional claim is possible" and "I don't know about it". Non-theists, to be simple, tend to say "you can't make a propositional claim with any certainty". Seeing as one makes sense to me and the other doesn't, I guess you know which position I'm closer to!
Speaking of which, one can follow the morals of the Christian religion but not be Christian if, say, monotheism is incompatible with their metaphysics, as it is with mine.
And finally, to reiterate, agnosticism has absolutely zip to do with religion. It's a philosophical position.
Dude why not just become a full Christian?! Ughh I sure hope you don't end out going to hell.
*hopes you were being sarcastic* Because I've looked at the Christian religion with my logic glasses on and it doesn't seem like the correct way to go, and partially because of a bunch of people who think it's their duty to stand on a soap-box and try to convert every passerby because they think it says so in the Bible. ---------------
"Religiously phenomenist" sounds relatively compatible with some forms of agnosticism.
I probably should've chosen my words differently. . .I mean just in relation to a God. In a way, my view could be compatible with certain sects of theist agnosticism.
Well, by "religiously phenomenist" I thought you regarded religion from the perspective of religious beliefs being a manifestation of human behavior rather than thinking about ontological committments of being theist.
I meant phenomenist in regard to God, but I'd say that religion is mostly just a psychological construct. There is a good deal of evidence pointing towards the fact that it is a general psychological tendency for humans to believe in God; for example, once, during WWII, the US army built an airstrip on what they thought to be an uninhabited island. There was a Stone-Age tribe hiding out of sight, and they thought that the US Navy was actually the gods on Earth. About 30 years later, a sociologist went there, and these people had built straw effigies of US WWII planes and Navy officers. Humans do seem wired to believe in some sort of God, but of course that argument could go both ways.
most of the people around the world are christain, 80% of the christain population live in North America and most of Europe is Christain, about 1/3 of the world ius chirstain. So most of the people are going to say they are.
Silent, you're saying that 1/3 of the worlds 6 billion people is christian. 1/3 of 6 billion is 2 billion. You say North America has 80% of the Christian population. 80% of 2 billion is 1.6 billion. There are only 500 million people in North Ammerica... Learn math...
