Atheists & Agnostics
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Are You Atheist, Agnostic, Pantheist, Deist, Pagan or what?
http://www.selectsmart.com/plus/select.php?url=pantheists
SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)Mbrow
(1,090 posts)or there abouts.
Cartoonist
(7,532 posts)A 100% atheist could choose any answer. I chose the first and it labeled me an agnostic pantheist. Wrong!
frogmarch
(12,226 posts)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.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Warpy
(113,130 posts)I know, what a shock.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)atheist/secular humanist - 100%
The second one on the list, with 74%, was Scientific Pantheist. Whatever that means.
Duppers
(28,246 posts)See my post below.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)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....
https://allthatiswrong.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/why-naturalistic-pantheism-is-a-crock/
Duppers
(28,246 posts)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.
kdmorris
(5,649 posts)Duppers
(28,246 posts)A few days ago and thought about posting it here.
Duppers
(28,246 posts)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)It says I'm a Scientific Pantheist. That doesn't seem right. Would that be Gryffindor? Slitherin? HR Puffinstuff? Emil Minty?
mr blur
(7,753 posts)DetlefK
(16,455 posts)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 ...
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)Which is also what I predicted.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)But like most internet tests, it's bullshit.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)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.