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Take this quiz... (Original Post) Playinghardball Apr 2016 OP
I am a 100% atheist. I knew I would be. nt SusanCalvin Apr 2016 #1
agnostic secular humanist Mbrow Apr 2016 #2
They lost me with the first question Cartoonist Apr 2016 #3
Atheist secular humanist frogmarch Apr 2016 #4
100% Athiest/Secular Humanist, but I already knew that. n/t Binkie The Clown Apr 2016 #5
I'm an atheist Warpy Apr 2016 #6
What else could it be... Curmudgeoness Apr 2016 #7
Think Sam Harris is also a scientific pantheist. Duppers Apr 2016 #11
I looked into what scientific pantheism is supposed to be. Curmudgeoness Apr 2016 #15
I never had any sort of "need for spiritual aspect" Duppers Apr 2016 #16
100% Atheist / Secular Humanist n/t kdmorris Apr 2016 #8
Coinkydink your posting this because i just took that quizz Duppers Apr 2016 #9
Forgot to add my results-- Atheist/secular humanist 100% Duppers Apr 2016 #10
Nice -- an internet version of the "sorting hat" from Harry Potter. Freelancer Apr 2016 #12
Hmm...no category for Anti-theist. Shame. (nt) mr blur Apr 2016 #13
Atheist / Secular Humanist (100%) DetlefK Apr 2016 #14
Atheist / Secular Humanist pokerfan Apr 2016 #17
It never tallied a result for me awoke_in_2003 Apr 2016 #18
Atheist / Secular Humanist AlbertCat Apr 2016 #19

Cartoonist

(7,532 posts)
3. They lost me with the first question
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 06:31 PM
Apr 2016

A 100% atheist could choose any answer. I chose the first and it labeled me an agnostic pantheist. Wrong!

frogmarch

(12,226 posts)
4. Atheist secular humanist
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 06:51 PM
Apr 2016

I took the test twice and although I chose different responses in a couple of them and prioritized my responses differently in most of them, I got the same result.

I clicked the Learn More tab and was spirited away to Amazon to look inside a book about Pantheism.

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
7. What else could it be...
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 08:05 PM
Apr 2016

atheist/secular humanist - 100%

The second one on the list, with 74%, was Scientific Pantheist. Whatever that means.

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
15. I looked into what scientific pantheism is supposed to be.
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 05:26 PM
Apr 2016

Seemed like bunk to me. I love nature. I have calm and serene feelings when I am close to nature. But I have no spiritual connection to it. Maybe I was just finding definitions that made it sound like a religion to me. I doubt that Harris was a scientific pantheist in the way that it was described (at least by my google search).

I found a blog that stated my feelings well....

It seems that Naturalistic Pantheism is the choice of educated and perhaps intelligent people who are smart enough to acknowledge that all the current organized religions are absurd, yet still have some sort of need for a spiritual aspect to their lives. If you eliminate all the spiritual aspects of god or worship from naturalistic pantheism then all that remains is the base scientific knowledge and fact. In what possible way is this so insufficient that some people need to re-imagine the universe as a kind of entity? If I can have a deep wonder and respect for the universe without having to do so, surely others can as well? I understand that people have different ways of coping or looking at the world but this is just ridiculous.


https://allthatiswrong.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/why-naturalistic-pantheism-is-a-crock/

Duppers

(28,246 posts)
16. I never had any sort of "need for spiritual aspect"
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 04:15 PM
Apr 2016

Never. It was more like an awareness/ a light bulb moment. It's been termed "self-transcendent."
Something Harris described in the first 10mins here:



It's called spiritual for a lack of a better term and has NOTHING to do with the traditional meaning of the word. It's simply internal, neural activity that awakens and transcends self and provokes a sense on oneness.

Yet, I do not go as far as thinking the universe is any sort of entity, so perhaps I'm not technically a "scientific pantheist." There is a DUer, GliderGuider, who does feel that way.

Most atheists are as totally dismissive of this as you, so I realize mine is a minority opinion. But look down thread and see that others here, per test results, fall into that category.



Duppers

(28,246 posts)
9. Coinkydink your posting this because i just took that quizz
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 08:12 PM
Apr 2016

A few days ago and thought about posting it here.


Duppers

(28,246 posts)
10. Forgot to add my results-- Atheist/secular humanist 100%
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 08:40 PM
Apr 2016

And 92% scientific pantheist BUT only in the sense that Sam Harris is.
LSD took me on that journey of inspired feelings years ago. I hate that "theist" is any way connected to the term because it's a misnomer and MOST inappropriate.

Dawkins called pantheism a "sexed-up atheism."




Freelancer

(2,107 posts)
12. Nice -- an internet version of the "sorting hat" from Harry Potter.
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 09:12 PM
Apr 2016

It says I'm a Scientific Pantheist. That doesn't seem right. Would that be Gryffindor? Slitherin? HR Puffinstuff? Emil Minty?

DetlefK

(16,455 posts)
14. Atheist / Secular Humanist (100%)
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 06:15 AM
Apr 2016

Atheist / Secular Humanist More Information (100%)
Scientific Pantheist More Information (80%)
Agnostic Pantheist More Information (72%)

My personal expectation was straight-up "Agnostic", but that was on rank 10 ...

 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
19. Atheist / Secular Humanist
Sat Apr 23, 2016, 11:29 AM
Apr 2016

I suppose that counts as I think science is the only thing telling us what things are really like.... but of course being human, art and emotions (human ones) are real and not to be dismissed.

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