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Originally Posted by Gary L
What do you want added?
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It's not what I *want* added (lest anyone suggest someone who has faith in God is 'demanding' something be changed to suit them...), but if I was going to contribute to the poll, then I would have preferred the options to be along the lines of:
- Follow a particular faith and insist everyone else does too
- Belong to a religion/religious organisation
- Have faith in a deity's existence and attempt to live your life that way
- Don't believe in anything specific but are sure some higher power exists
- Don't care either way
- Pretty sure there is no deity.
- Firmly believe/am convinced there is no deity
- Dislike anything connected with religion/faith/spirituality and want all traces of it removed from society because I disagree with/misunderstand it.
Going on all the opinions and views I've seen, heard and read over the years, I think that covers all eventualities.
My position is the third from top. I don't belong to any religious organisation, nobody tells me I have to do/think/believe anything, I go along to a church but no-one forces me to, nobody there tells me how to live my life, I have questions and they have answers. In all my time with my faith I have never met anyone within it who has views differing from that.
Almost every atheist will apparently have had an experience with a 'religious nutcase' who has threatened them with Hell etc, I have never encountered anyone like that and if I did I'd simply ignore them.
As a side note I really don't know what this thread will achieve which has not been repeated over and over again on this forum.