I don't think of myself as an atheist. While I don't believe in a deity (most days), I also am not passionate about my non-belief.
I figure if the Judaic God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob exists, then I wouldn't want much to do with him (he is kind of an asshole). The Christian pantheon (I have never understood how the Father/Son/Holy Ghost plus Mary and all the saints wind up being monotheism), makes pretty much no sense to me. Islam is pretty close to the other two, so if I wanted to get away from that old man with the white beard, then I'd have to look into Buddhism, Hindu (do they actually convert people? I wonder) Wicca, or Shinto. None of those seem all that appealing.
Some days I think there might be a deity, but it wouldn't be something that would be knowable, so perhaps I'm an agnostic on my off days.
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I figure if the Judaic God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob exists, then I wouldn't want much to do with him (he is kind of an asshole). The Christian pantheon (I have never understood how the Father/Son/Holy Ghost plus Mary and all the saints wind up being monotheism), makes pretty much no sense to me. Islam is pretty close to the other two, so if I wanted to get away from that old man with the white beard, then I'd have to look into Buddhism, Hindu (do they actually convert people? I wonder) Wicca, or Shinto. None of those seem all that appealing.
Some days I think there might be a deity, but it wouldn't be something that would be knowable, so perhaps I'm an agnostic on my off days.