Whenever something religious-related ever comes up and somebody asks me what my views are, I think I always give a different answer... I sometimes answer "Atheist", sometimes "Agnostic", sometimes "Freethinker", and sometimes "non-religious". I mean I guess they all give you the generally same idea but I'm trying to figure out which one I should stick to in order to actually be able to give the same answer.
What do you think I'd fit under best? I'll stick some of my views here so you may have an idea of what I should call myself.
So when I was raised as a kid, religion was never something that really existed to me. I never knew or about it and was never told about it really (And I'm really grateful that I wasn't) and I remember in like first grade, whenever kids were asking each other those random questions because we were always so curious, they'd be like "Alex are you Christian or Jewish?" And I'd always answer "I don't believe in God". I never knew of any non-religious terms then but I remember saying that a lot haha. But now I think I have more specific views. For example, I think every religious book like the Bible, Quran, etc are all made up by people so I definitely don't believe in any of those. I don't know if some guy named Jesus was dying on a cross but I'm pretty sure he's not our savior or anything and he most certainly isn't watching over us or anything.
My other issue is "God" is too broad of a term because it seems to mean something different for every single person in existence. He/she/it seems to magically always have the exact same views as whoever is talking about them which are always different at least a little person to person. And I mean I guess technically my "God" could be the supermassive non-living force in the universe that just like represents everything (Does that even make sense?) but I don't think the people who think it's some guy who we must pray to exists. Also a weird addition that separates me from other Atheists [If I am an atheist idk] is I do think sprits and non-physical beings exist, whether it's on a different plain, different dimension, or whatever you want to call it... However Hell (And probably heaven too) is also made up.
Ok so anyway, after reading that, would you say there's a term that fits me best? Writing this out and re-reading it means I should probably stick to Freethinker. (But to be honest I wish I didn't have to have one but I think it'd be helpful when people ask me so I don't have to go on this long rant with all my beliefs and non-beliefs...) Anyway what's your opinion? Thanks :D
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