*sorry for thread bumping*
I agree with DaveRam. (even though he isn't here) But to me, the Christain religion takes it's beliefs and drills it into people's heads to the point of brainwashing. And if you don't accept their views they turn against you. I have been in situations like this before. The people where I live are so Christian they make their kids pray outside a public school. And my family is Christian based, but I am not. I believe in the "Big Bang" completely, I believe in Gay Marrige, and believe that people should be able to get an abortion if they feel so. I am not a complete athiest though. I believe there is a higher being but the odds that the Bible is fact are very slim.
And again, sorry for thread bumping.
I can't help myself.
I'm a card carrying, uniform wearing athiest and no christian's ever turned against me. And I'm not sure about the brainwashing thing either.
To be honest I find the agnostic thing - I believe in something but I don't know what - more mystifying than any religious beliefs. However flawed I see their arguement, or logic, at least christians can base their convictions on the bible. But I can't see how your belief in a "higher being" can be based on anything other than wishful thinking. If you believe in this, what do you base it on? What did it do, and what does it continue to do? Do you have any evidence for its existance, its actions, or any explanation as to why the universe needs one in the first place? If, as you say, the odds of the bible being fact are slim then.......
People in glass houses and all that.
If you "believe completely" in the big bang, then I have to assume that you've looked into it's logic (otherwise, in just believing what someone's told you, are you any better than the "brainwashed" christians? ) So if you have, then you accept that the origins of our universe can be found in observable, measurable evidence. How can you then have this belief in a "higher being" , for which none of the previous exists. You can't have it both ways.