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Re: Not sure what you would classify my "religion" as? - November 19th 2009, 04:11 AM

You believe that there is a god - where an agnostic only believes there might be - but you don't feel that any of the mainstream religions paint a reasonable picture or anything you'd really want to believe in, right?

I think the term you're looking for then is "deist." Deism generally means that you believe there exists some kind of higher power, but not necessarily that it wants our worship, or that it even pays any attention to us. Generally, a deist thinks that there's no way to know what god is like, so there's no reason to subscribe to any particular religion. And I can certainly agree with you that the common vision of the christian god is not really a very appealing one.

That help you any?


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