apostate?
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erikaj - Aug 03, 2006 10:26:36 am PDT #6689 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
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.
P.M. Marc - Aug 03, 2006 10:32:19 am PDT #6696 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Yeah, Deist has a more specific meaning, so when people use it to mean something general, my pedantometer twitches.
Emily - Aug 03, 2006 10:33:12 am PDT #6697 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Sort of depends on your definition of "worship," though -- deists on the whole don't (I think) think that God wants worshipping, but they may well pray and, er, respect.
There are some forms of Satanism which require belief in God but emphatically don't worship Him. Does that count?
Trudy Booth - Aug 03, 2006 10:33:40 am PDT #6698 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
*For me*, atheism is less about "there is no god" and more about "I do not believe in god." And maybe that distinction is part of the divide between the more evangelically-oriented atheists and the not-interested atheists. I have no need or desire to convince anyone of anything; I know what I do and do not believe, and I know that I didn't come to (or come to articulate) those beliefs lightly. That's
I think, think that is the distinction between a 'hard athiest' and a 'soft athiest'.