Yes, I am offended by people who are made nervous by free discussions.

why we are discussing religious on n900 forum ... and they say 'jerry springer' is bad !!! lol

see how many peopel this thread offends? me and geneven are offended i know there are others.

What is the purpose of this topic? Are you using this topic as a prelude to request a religious incline application or what?

I'm utterly surprised that this thread hasn't yet exploded into massive troll-lava-fireball !

I would like to vote "Strongly Agnostic" but it's not on the list so i still voted what i felt was the closest to this...

I know as many atheist people as i know definitions of atheism vs agnosticism so I'd rather be on the safe side, in the end you're all atheist if you're brain is aware of more than 1 god concept and reject one because they are in conflict.

That being said, I oppose religion when/if it enters the political realm or any form of public discussion having an impact on freedom of choice, etc...
I also do not use God as a reference to nature, the universe or such as the word has a way too many connotations.
I'll also be wary of most relativists or scientists with an agenda...

I found these videos quiet in line with my thoughts on the matter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wV_REEdvxo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlaCq3dKvvI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OLPL5p0fMg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69TOuqaqXI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h9XntsSEro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vss1VKN2rf8

Now you can flame me, hopefully constructively... ;-)

Normally, I'd skip this thread. Tonight, for some reason, I'll answer:

The thing is, people use the word religious wrongly almost all the time.

Yes, I know, language is in a state of flux. Words change their meaning over time. But as usually defined, religion is used to describe certain styles of praxis with regards to faith, rather than to describe any given faith itself.

In short, religion has little to do with what you believe, and it is much more concerned with how you behave about what you believe.

You can be religious about just about anything, actually. And it is the cultural things that people choose to be religious about that are mainly responsible for all the schisms and horrors attributed to differing theologies. The theologies themselves have much less to do with any of that nonsense.

Me, I'd be entirely pleased to be categorized as areligious. I usually think of myself in that way. But there is no way I'd ever categorize myself as atheistic.

Look: Even Occam's Razor, that fundamental tool of reason, becomes, when applied to matters of faith, itself a test of belief. Either you believe it to be more complicated (and thus less likely) that there is a god, or you believe it to be more complicated (and thus less likely) that there isn't. You bring that supposition with you to the analysis. Either way, you are beginning on faith.

What you believe is entirely faith. What you think about that belief is mostly theology (or BS, you decide). And what you do about that belief (and to some degree, what you do about what you think about it) is religion. They are separate things.

Most people don't like to hear that, but it is true.

I didn't vote but add me to "strongly religious". Also closing the thread on account of it's explicitly forbidden in the forum description, but thank you everyone for keeping it fairly tame.