the Flying Spaghetti Monster? haha
You do know that this is a real life parody religion, right?
This is just stupidity in huge numbers of people.
As for me, my life started out with me being a theist, but that's because I was forced into a religion without any choice. I was a little afraid of denying the ways of the religion that was forced onto me, afraid of differentiating myself from others, and I never really thought about what I want or what I believe.
But that was when I was very young. Later on, as I wanted to break free, and stopped caring about it all, I became a mix of an apatheist and agnostic, mainly agnostic. But this was for a short while.
Finally, after that short while, I finally started giving it some thought and care before I conclude (as apatheists don't care or think about these things), and believed that I needed to find what I really believe and really want. After some research on the subject, I saw myself as a deist with very little deviations.
Deism in the philosophy of religion is the standpoint that reason and observation of the natural world, without the need for organized religion, can determine that a supreme being created the universe. Further the term often implies that this supreme being does not intervene in human affairs or suspend the natural laws of the universe. Deists typically reject supernatural events such as prophecy and miracles, tending to assert that God (or "The Supreme Architect") has a plan for the universe that is not to be altered by intervention in the affairs of human life. Deists believe in the existence of God without any reliance on revealed religion, religious authority or holy books. This idea is also known as the Clockwork universe theory, in which God designs and builds the universe, but steps aside to let it run on its own.
Basically, I believe in the existence of God, yes, but I believe that God made everything and is now letting it run on its own to observe what human being and others actually do when they are given the power of logic paired with emotion and free will. God does not intervene in any affairs of the physical world after the creation process either.
Moreover, I don't believe in most, if not all of the classic beliefs generally unique to religion related things, like the existence of other holy people, the existence of a guideline which we must follow, and all that.
However, I do believe that it is very nice, and even required of a person, to abide by some common morals and logic. Without such logic, things would fall apart.
tl;dr version: I'm a deist, i.e. someone who believes that God exists, but that all. In all other ways, they don't believe much, and couldn't care less.
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