im agnostic, the only comfort i get is in knowing god may or may not exist. :laughing:

Me too, i was much happier when i believed in god..
now im a cynic who doesn't know what to believe in.

I tend to write down "music" as my religious/political belief on any forms I have to fill in.

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im more pretentious, i proudly call myself an agnostic cause it sounds smarter than being a christian. lol

It's the perfect middle ground for me..
this way i can tell christians and atheist "You're both full of Sh%t, what do you know!?"

I'm an atheist. Proud to be one and loving it.

I've never understood those who take pride in it.

I'm not especially proud to not believe in Santa any more. It's just the way things happened, same goes for any god.

Essentially, I'm agnostic. I was pretty atheist until one experience that made me not so sure. It may sound completely stupid, but it really was important and shaped my opinions pretty heavily. Still not wholly sold on a deity, but the experience was pretty intense.

You're right. It is pretty stupid to say I'm proud of it. I guess I meant that it was somewhat difficult to escape from religion in a very catholic country. But can't really say I'm proud of having done it, you're right. Sort of happy, though. You're surely happy you don't believe in Santa anymore, being as old as you are, aye?

Are you unable to share this experience? I'm intrigued. :yeah:

Again not really. I'd rather not have experienced Santa or God now that I know the concepts I learnt were lies because I was happier when I believed them. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

Don't get me wrong, up with reason and all that, but magic kicks ass. It's why I love LOTR and fantasy in general. Waiting for Santa to show up, and honestly believing that he would, were just some of the best memories I ever had. Magic just makes the world feel more wondrous and shiny. Sure, the natural world has immense beauty to it, but it also has endless light years of dark nothingness, where the very concept of existence or meaning or anything really is irrelevant. Makes me feel depressed and inconsequential. Not believing in magic might be more rational, but there's no law that says that being more rational somehow makes you or the world any happier.