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I am posting this because I really am now very curious about the "belief demographics" on the City-Data forums. Since the voting process is anonymous, and each member can vote only once, the results should be both accurate and very interesting!
You'll also notice that the ballot is strictly alphabetical except for the final category which I thought should be at the end.
Albert Einstein had some interesting ideas about his belief system in particular and God in general. Awe of the Structure of the World To assume the existence of an unperceivable being ... does not facilitate understanding the orderliness we find in the perceivable world. I don't try to imagine a God; it suffices to stand in awe of the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropomorphic concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able to imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. My views are near to those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order and harmony which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem — the most important of all human problems.
That is a great post, cil! It should be mentioned, also, that Einstein was a Humanist (he joined the American Humanist Society in the 1950s). There is so much of what he wrote on Science and Religion that dovetails with my own views (yes, I'll admit it: I'm the lone representative of Secular Humanism in the poll thus far! )
(yes, I'll admit it: I'm the lone representative of Secular Humanism in the poll thus far! )
heh
I voted Other.
Frankly, I am not sure what I am, and I am not desperately worried about it. Regardless, Einstein's ideas really resonated with me.
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except for the final category which I thought should be at the end.
Militant Agnostic: "I DON'T KNOW AND NEITHER DO YOU!!!!!!!" 
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