Originally posted by Grampy BobbyYour three options are not mutually exclusive.
Let's reduce the original post question to its irreducible:
"Do you believe God exists"
No or Yes.............. or you're still examining the possibility?
You can't be 1 and 2.
But you can be 1 and 3, or 2 and 3.
Position 3 is in fact redundant as 1 and 2 are both exclusive and exhaustive,
because while they are not the only answers people could give, you cannot
both believe and not believe god exists [using any normal definitions of believe]
which means that you can only be option 1 or 2 and nothing in-between.
You are still being Christian centric by asking about a capitalised monotheistic god
in the singular, and not asking whether people believe in gods, or god or gods, or
similar.
Leading to a post that looks like it splits theist vs atheist but actually splits
Christian vs everyone else, or if I am being generous, monotheist vs everyone else.
And your OP still suffers from being pointless.
Firstly, because who cares how many theists vs atheists [or whatever you think you
are measuring] are on this site.
Secondly, because a self selecting poll such as this is unlikely to be representative and
cannot be trusted to be so.
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyIf a Muslim answered "Yes, I call Him Allah" would you record it as a "Yes"?
Let's reduce the original post question to its irreducible:
"Do you believe God exists"
No or Yes.............. or you're still examining the possibility?
If a JW answered "Yes, but Jesus is not God" would you record it as a "Yes"?
If a Jew, a B'hai, a Zoroastrian, a Hindu, a Mahayana Buddhist, a Wiccan? A Deist?
Take a look at
http://www.religionfacts.com/big_religion_chart.htm
and think about this question.
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyI fully understood the question. You didn't however understand the answer. But instead of trying to understand the answer, you just keep on copy/pasting the OP, my answer, and just about anything you can get your hands on. Excessive copy/pasting does not help to clarify, it does the exact opposite. In a real life conversation, do you spend half your time repeating what you said earlier and what your interlocutor said in response?
Let's reduce the original post question to its irreducible:
"Do you believe God exists"
No or Yes.............. or you're still examining the possibility?