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I am religious and believe in free will

71 (27.7%)

I am religious and do not believe in free will

10 (3.9%)

I am not religious and believe in free will

114 (44.5%)

I am not religious and do not believe in free will

61 (23.8%)

Total Members Voted: 251

[Frumple]

Is it at all strange to be atheist, yet still believe in souls/spirits and an afterlife?

No? That's basically buddhism. It's also several sorts of animism, iirc, among other things. Plenty of precedent for it.

[UXLZ]

Not really, I've considered those kind of beliefs while contemplating my agnosticism. Hell, one of the things I'm more certain about is that if there is some sort of 'creator' they don't care all that much about humans.

At least, no more than other things.

Actually, one of the things that's always ruffled my feathers most about some religions is the insistence that Humans are 'God's' 'special chosen ones.'
It just strikes an off chord with me.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

How good is music though.
No one hates music.

Sadly, this isn't the music thread.

...

I don't think we even have a music thread. Huh.

((We do, it's called the great music thread, there is also a rate the song above you thread))
I'm just going to bite my tongue for this part of the discussion

[timferius]

I tend to believe in a single divine entity in the aspect that all life is part of a single divinity, if that makes sense? Sort of you standard everything is connected stuff. A general respect for all things natural, keeping in mind that humans are also part of nature, so everything man made is also technically natural (do we call a beehive or a beaver dam unnatural?). I don't believe in a creator though. I used to back when I was Catholic, but to me there were just too many inconsistencies. I think all religions and believes do, generally, reflect an understanding of the same thing, just from different perspectives and filters.

[That Wolf]

I'm just going to bite my tongue for this part of the discussion

Please contribute. I would like you to.
Dont bite too hard or it will sail off in an ark like moses.. haha

[smjjames]

I'm just going to bite my tongue for this part of the discussion

Please contribute. I would like you to.
Dont bite too hard or it will sail off in an ark like moses.. haha

That was Noah, not Moses......

[King Kravoka]

Fundamentalist Mormon here.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Fundamentalist Mormon here.

I'm sorry but I have to ask
Do Mormon's really believe in polygommy?
I've heard it but there is no one around here, IRL, to ask

[smjjames]

Fundamentalist Mormon here.

What's the difference between that and mainstream Mormons? Besides those polygamy sects where they're effectively harems.

[King Kravoka]

Fundamentalist Mormon here.

I'm sorry but I have to ask
Do Mormon's really believe in polygommy?
I've heard it but there is no one around here, IRL, to ask

It all depends on which branch.
Officially Polygamy was banned to due to government pressure. Although most fundamentalists branches, the famous ones anyway, do continue the practice. Mine allows it. It is possible that if the church decides to use a loophole and the government becomes more tolerant celestial marriage could be reintroduced.

Fundamentalist Mormon here.

What's the difference between that and mainstream Mormons? Besides those polygamy sects where they're effectively harems.

Political attitude and...mostly that.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

And few more questions if you don't mind, I've been curious and never had anyone to ask
Do a lot of people choose to have multiple partners? If so is it just like two or three or is it common for people to have a lot of extra partners? Lastly is it usually guys with many wives or are there women with many husbands too?

[smjjames]

Celestial marriage? Does that involve getting married in space?

Okay, I'm ending my unrequisited sarcasm here...

It was a stupid random joke, nvm. Though getting married in space actually would be awesome.

[King Kravoka]

And few more questions if you don't mind, I've been curious and never had anyone to ask
Do a lot of people choose to have multiple partners? If so is it just like two or three or is it common for people to have a lot of extra partners? Lastly is it usually guys with many wives or are there women with many husbands too?

As far as I know only men can have multiple wives. I'm not very knowledgeable about the subject, being in my early teens, and it's probably a better choice to read a copy of it's doctrine.

[That Wolf]

I'm just going to bite my tongue for this part of the discussion

Please contribute. I would like you to.
Dont bite too hard or it will sail off in an ark like moses.. haha

That was Noah, not Moses......

Haha was it. Good times im so literate.

And few more questions if you don't mind, I've been curious and never had anyone to ask
Do a lot of people choose to have multiple partners? If so is it just like two or three or is it common for people to have a lot of extra partners? Lastly is it usually guys with many wives or are there women with many husbands too?

I like this question. And im going to answer it.
Marrage is a man owning a woman.
In no way can a woman own a man, thats heresy.
Not my opinion but the way it has always been. Its human nature

[smjjames]

Marriage is a man owning a woman? I think there are a lot of people who would object to that. This isn't the middle ages.