In all honesty, at this point in my life, I am pretty much an atheist with respect to a personal god. And by "personal god," I mean a god like the one Evangelical Christians worship---one that can and will act as a personal friend and guide to each person on the planet; one that listens to everyone's prayers and answers according to His Will; one that gets mad at people for not believing in Him and worshiping Him; and so on. I think I can say with pretty much 100 percent honesty that a god like that doesn't exist.
However, I AM agnostic towards other types of higher powers. I am not opposed to their being a deistic god out there somewhere. Even with that, though, my thoughts are that it probably doesn't exist. But a distant, impersonal god like the one most deists believe in doesn't seem too unlikely for me to allow for the possibility of its existence. |