Are you Irreligious, Non-religious, Anti-theist, Agnostic or Secular Humanist?

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• Can you think of a choice i could have put there that wasn't relative to religion?

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  by Ombliss22 on January 12th, 2011

• Well, I'm not quite sure what kinds of things you would like to know about people. Perhaps you could be a bit more specific about what you are interested to know? I could help a good deal more if I knew this and would be happy to do so.
  
  There are a number of possible positions depending on what we are discussion, but I'll give you a few from fields that I assume you are asking about. These aren't comprehensive, but they are a good overview:
  
  Belief positions in theology: atheism, anti-theism, theism, deism, pantheism, panentheism...etc.
  
  Knowledge positions on theology: Agnosticism, Ignosticism, Gnosticism.
  
  Moral/ethical principles: Humanism, Egoism, Deontology, Utilitarianism, consequentialism, inconsequentialism, contractarianism...etc. (Many of these, like humanism, can be either theistic, or secular).
  
  Religions (These generally combine positions on Morality, ethics, theology, teleology, ontology...etc): Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Janism, Scientology...etc.

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  by Stepper on January 12th, 2011

• Thank you, Well you say you are an atheist do you not see that as similar to identifying yourself as a non-tennis player? I don't call myself an atheist or a theist because I see it as a theological noncognitivism and a very old propaganda tool to place anyone outside of religion as abnormal and everyone in religion as normal. I do not suffer fools gladly and religious people seem to be in denial of their addiction to their delusions. This would be fine by me if they kept it to themselves but they don't. This site is a prime example, every fourth post seems to be religion. I don't want to engage with it or know about it's delusional structures.
  
  myself
  Belief position - science
  Knowledge position - Top down deterministic epiphenomenology
  Moral ethical - humanism/utilitarianism
  But like you said the moral/ethical can be secular or theistic this is another trap as secular is church state division it is still relative to religion. So there isn't an option of a non-religious moral/ethical category. Religion is truly insidious.

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  by Ombliss22 on January 12th, 2011

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