what is your religion if any

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Agnostic.

I was a Mormon for 5-6 years when I was younger.

i also follow Darwinism

Always changing religion. I just made that up. Mostly atheist.

Agnostic and beginning to accept the idea of a force in the universe.

Agnostic atheist but interested in the teachings of all religions. I have gleaned some moral, spiritual, and intellectual value from reading about the religions of the world. If you can look at the teachings logically without the filter of faith, they are interesting myths.

I got really into Greek/Norse/Roman mythology when I was in grade school, shortly after I figured out that the religion I was raised in had no more logical basis than did belief in Santa or the Easter Bunny. From there it was easy to see the common threads shared by all religions - even the ones we now call myth. I expect in another 500-1000 years, Catholicism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, all of the current religions, will also be relegated to the realm of mythology. It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall to see what "true religion" comes along to take the place of the current mythology.

I believe in God, gods, angels, demons, the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, etc. as nice concepts--but with no basis in empirical fact.

Agnostic here, with a strong bent toward atheism.

I don't truly consider it a religion... it's more of a lifestyle... but if I absolutely had to pick I would say Buddhist.

I am a Mormon. I haven't seen any others on here, but I haven't really looked too hard either. If anyone is, feel free to pm me, I am interested talking to other Mormons that are Aspies.

But back on the subject of religion in general. To me, intellectually, the existence of God is a lot more logical than just assuming everything, especially life, could have just "happened" because all the needed components were present and "the conditions were right". Just because I assemble all the materials needed to create a building, it does not mean that eventually the conditions will allow that the building will construct itself. There are an infinite amount of things that would need to happen for something like that to occur on its own, with no creator there to create it, and therefore it is simply impossible. And comparing life to a building isn't even close, life is always growing, changing, and adapting all on its own. Life is infinitely more complex than a building. So it is very ridiculous to me to think that there isn't some higher being.

I think there are certain things around us that are described by those who don't believe God exists as a natural occurrence. There is really no foundation for this, as there are no identical or even similar measurable occurrences that would coincide with this hypothesis, especially concerning the matter of the origin of life. The mere fact that we are here is proof to me that there is a higher being. Also, we are clearly very different from any animal. Animals survive, and are easily contented when they have their basic needs met. Humans are not like this (well, most of us at least). We strive to improve, innovate, and create. We want to be better all the time, not out of need, but because we have a desire to be better than what we were yesterday. I think that everyone at their core wants to be important to others, in some way. Animals don't have a desire to be important, and don't attempt to improve their systems if they are already able to survive on current methods. This is a very huge difference, and in my opinion it proves that we must have been created by someone greater than us. That is where I think the basis for our desire to improve and create things comes from, a parent that does the same. I don't think these desires can be attributed to an evolutionary development, these concepts and ideas we have are simply too complex (no oxymoron intended) to have occurred on their own.

Apparently I'm a non Indian Hindu. According to a test I just did.
I don't know what to think...

have any strictly definable belief system anymore - Although I tend to believe in and hope for the idea of reincarnation. - In my next life I would be perfectly happy coming back again as autistic. I would be perfectly happy coming back again as gay -- Those are the two biggest issues that in different ways have separated me from the mainstream. - But as opposed the situation I was born into in this life - I just hope I come back in a wealthy New York City family with parents just like Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock.

Christian. More specifically, Reformed (i.e., Calvinistic). I most closely identify with Reformed Baptist theology, although I'm a member of a local Presbyterian (PCA) church for geographic reasons.

Another atheist here; the idea of God confuses me, because I don't understand, if he exists, how he can be all-loving while simultaneously creating things like natural disasters, deadly viruses and the like.

Well, those things don't matter because they're your ticket to heaven or hell (dying isn't the end in their belief, rather it's the beginning). You'll get all the love or hate in those.

Naturally, it's a nice little excuse, and it's an outdated concept (as is religion) with the knowledge humanity has gained, but hey, even normal people don't like change.

I'm not religious and do not believe in any sort of God. Nevertheless I'm really fascinated by Buddhism and would consider that my personal philosophy (minus the reincarnation, nirvana, life wheel etc. Just the philosophical aspects)

Atheist most of the time, theist when I feel like it.

Sometimes I make up 'gods' and make them real in my brain e.g. earth god. These 'gods' don't like being a called 'gods' because god is an ugly word.