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Question for Theists
- Thread starter Farid
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About 25 years. The remaining 28 years I was agnostic.
leov
Well-Known Member
some 40 years out of 64.
usfan
Well-Known Member
45 years. I encountered the Almighty at 20. I was an atheist before that, and a secular child before that.
30 years, previously atheist for a couple of years... (extreme anti-theist/materialist for a hot minute) and agnostic any time before that. Probably odd only because I'm one of the few people I know whom went from atheism to theism.
Liu
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More of a (pan)deist than a theist proper.
Acting like it now and then without being really convinced: 10+ years
Convinced: 3 years?
Additionally agnostic theist: 6 years.
My parents used to pray with me when I was little and sent me to religion lessons in school even though they're atheists, so I had some unreflected belief in the Christian god until I was like 14 or so.
Acting like it now and then without being really convinced: 10+ years
Convinced: 3 years?
Additionally agnostic theist: 6 years.
My parents used to pray with me when I was little and sent me to religion lessons in school even though they're atheists, so I had some unreflected belief in the Christian god until I was like 14 or so.
PureX
Veteran Member
I was a theist as a child, but became agnostic once I was old enough to doubt. I am still agnostic and very likely will always be. But some years back I realized that theism does not demand that I presume to know that God exists, or to know God's nature. It does not demand that I not be agnostic. Because theism is simply offering me the possibility of a God of my own understanding, existing. It is nothing more than my having the option of accepting this possibility, on faith, if I want it, and then living by it and learning from the results.
Which I have done, and found the results to be far superior to those of atheism. So I would say I have always been a theist, and nearly always an agnostic. I am 62 years old.
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I grew up Christian but have spent about 30 years as a Baha'i. The Baha'i Faith like Christianity is monotheistic. I had a nine month spell as an atheist but it wasn't a good fit for me personally. During my teen years religion usually wasn't important to me and at times I was agnostic.
syo
Well-Known Member
Many years. Some years I was an atheist.
Depends on how one understands the term "theist." Some folks have very constricted notions of who is and isn't a theist. Somewhere between never, a few years, and most of my life depending on how you slice it. The question does not really matter to me, so I do not care what answer someone picks. The label "theist" (or "atheist") is next to meaningless anyway when "gods" can be literally anything.
Beard-A-Bear
New Member
Roughly 16-17 years, 2 years or so as a monotheist, the rest as a polytheist. However, I've always had theistic and animistic tendencies.
