mikkel_the_dane
My own religion
I'm interested in why you wouldn't think of yourself as a theist (albeit of a specific flavour).
Not saying you're wrong, just interested.
Okay, I used to be an atheist. So please don't play atheists only lack belief or disbelieve in gods. Some atheists are more than that. Their atheism is a part of an overall world view. You can't just focus on them being atheists, because it interconnects to the rest of their reasoning, logic, evidence and values. So now I will give them as sort of descriptive label and connect the dots to how I became religious. They are rationalist in the end, not empiricists. They may use the word evidence, but if you dig deeper, than is not what it is at play. It is that the world must make sense and that it matters to them subjectively, that the world must make sense.
So how do you spot that? Well, remember they demand objective empirical evidence and when you ask them this: How do you explain that you do that; demand evidence? They don't answer with evidence, they answer that it is useful to them subjectively to believe as they do and that it makes subjectively sense to them.
So remember this: You have to have evidence for what you believe and if you don't have evidence, then it is a belief, which requires faith. I gave that a lot of thought and really tried to replicate, what they demanded. All my beliefs should be with evidence, but I figured out that I couldn't. I hold beliefs about the world including other humans, not a opinion like that I like to eat rice, but beliefs about the world independent of me without evidence.
So I am honest, I am religious, because I hold beliefs about the world, including what the world is as such, for which I don't have evidence.
Now, how that relates to God? That is simple, I am a Cartesian skeptic and strong skeptic as such and I believe that the world is fair(no Matrix and what not) and that the world is knowable and natural. I.e. that the monitor in front of me, is a monitor in itself. But the world is not fair, since that is not a natural claim, so it is supernatural as "of or relating to an order of existence beyond the visible observable universe". That the world is fair, is an order of existence beyond the visible observable universe. So in effect I believe in a natural, yet supernatural God. I am honest, I tried to be a rationalist like them, but I couldn't, because they, as I see it, "cheated". So I came clean. I am functional still an atheist and skeptic and I don't believe in souls, reincarnation, Heaven, Hell, woo-woo beliefs, conspiracy theories and what not.
There is more, so just ask.
Regards
Mikkel