I'm just too much of a soft-touch. I can't really bring myself to be rude to people, even telemarketers, but especially people I'm dealing with face-to-face. I may be -thinking- "No, I'll never convert, you're wasting your time and mine, please go away" but what I'll -say- is "I'm pretty happy with my faith actually... Er... Yes... I suppose I do have ten minutes to spare..."
I am an actual real-life agnostic, though. I used to be heavily involved with science, and I am all about evolutionary theory, but I still like the idea that there might be some higher being out there, and some sort of purpose beyond procreation and survival. That said, I tend to think that if there is a god, s/he ought to be sufficiently "greater" than humans so as not to really care about whether or not s/he is worshipped, as vanity seems to me an awfully human trait. So, I hope for a higher being, in some ways, but I'm content never to know, never to have proof or true faith. I feel that one should do the Right Thing because it's Right, anyway, not because one hopes for reward, or hopes to avoid punishment...
So, yeah, I'm pretty happy with my faith, actually... ;-)
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I am an actual real-life agnostic, though. I used to be heavily involved with science, and I am all about evolutionary theory, but I still like the idea that there might be some higher being out there, and some sort of purpose beyond procreation and survival. That said, I tend to think that if there is a god, s/he ought to be sufficiently "greater" than humans so as not to really care about whether or not s/he is worshipped, as vanity seems to me an awfully human trait. So, I hope for a higher being, in some ways, but I'm content never to know, never to have proof or true faith. I feel that one should do the Right Thing because it's Right, anyway, not because one hopes for reward, or hopes to avoid punishment...
So, yeah, I'm pretty happy with my faith, actually... ;-)