What is the term for someone who believes in a god (any one, really) but doesn't worship them?
Deist?
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Polter-Cow - Aug 03, 2006 10:24:52 am PDT #6686 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Emily - Aug 03, 2006 10:26:03 am PDT #6687 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Emily, when was the last time you heard people having sex?
Dude, you didn't hear this coffeemaker. At the end of every huff of boiling water, there was what sounded very much like a woman going, "nguh," or, well, you know what I mean, even if I'm not sure how to spell it.
brenda m - Aug 03, 2006 10:26:04 am PDT #6688 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
sj's as close as I can get. Or just non-observant.
erikaj - Aug 03, 2006 10:26:36 am PDT #6689 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
apostate?
Steph L. - Aug 03, 2006 10:26:44 am PDT #6690 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I was gonna say "deist" also.
Calli - Aug 03, 2006 10:27:01 am PDT #6691 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I guess a polytheist might acknowledge that there are gods outside of his/her pantheon. I mean, just because I pray to Gaia does not necessarily mean that I don't believe in Badb. I'm just not inclined to worship her. But I honestly can't think of a single word that covers that, aside from "disinterested".
juliana - Aug 03, 2006 10:27:03 am PDT #6692 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
What is Terry Pratchett said about witches/wizards and gods? That the witches & wizards acknowledge the existence of gods, but don't believe in them, because it would be like believing in a tree or a rock - they're just there (and it's no good to start paying them attention anyway, they might get a big head about it, troublesome creatures that they are)?
Sean K - Aug 03, 2006 10:29:05 am PDT #6693 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I was gonna say "deist" also.
Deist works.
Aims - Aug 03, 2006 10:29:30 am PDT #6694 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
The founding fathers were deist.
§ ita § - Aug 03, 2006 10:30:06 am PDT #6695 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Deism seems to be more about the nature of god than the nature of the believer.
Calli--I was thinking like you were. I might be a devotee of Apollo and pay little attention to Aphrodite, although I certainly know she exists.
Non-practicing seems the closest so far, but it seems weird to put the label of Christian, say, anywhere near someone who doesn't view the whole thing with any reverence.