|  Perennis | Nov 27, 2005 8:22pm | | I see my personality type as leaving no room for belief in God. It's too irrational. Are there any INTP's out there who are strongly religious? |
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| | WAYN | Nov 27, 2005 10:18pm | I myself am agnostic, so I don't think the possibility that a god exists is inherently irrational. I think that if god exists, I doubt he/she/it would be so egotistical that it would require us to worship it. Also I doubt that god would care in I have sex before I get married. It would have a lot more important things to worry about.
Overall I think that we INTP's are way to antiauthoritarian to become strongly religious. And if I were to join a religion, it would have to make sense. I do not want to take anything on faith. If you want me to believe something, you had better be able to prove it.
And just for the hell of it, here is a link to a video of the greatest comedian who ever lived, Bill Hicks, talking about religion.
collegehumor.com/movies/1634157/ [collegehumor.com/movies/1634157/] |
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Sponsor |  Laukev7 | Nov 27, 2005 10:28pm | Atheist here. I don't see the concept of a creator, however unproven, as inherently irrational (ie. we might have been created by aliens). However, in my view the supernatural concept of a universal, omnipotent and omniscient god defies logic.
Whether your belief is rational or not depends partly on why you hold it. Does it come from your own personal reflexions, or is it an unchallenged legacy of a religion you've been brought up with? |
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Sponsor | | electronicmayhem | Nov 27, 2005 10:59pm | | I forgot to add a note to last post about myself being atheist and a student of Daoism. Perhaps our MBTI is prone to atheism, or maybe it's just that only the atheistic ones have chosen to comment. |
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| | chickenmcnoodle | Nov 28, 2005 1:20am | | When I take MBYs, I'm usually classified INTP (though, in general, I don't like such broad personality categorization, as they bring with them often false assumptions of traits), but I manage (?) to hold a faith and have a fairly developed (in my humble opinion) spiritual part of my life. |
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Sponsor | | Thlayli | Nov 28, 2005 6:19am | | <- INTP, of course. I'm not exactly athiest, more of an agnostic. I'd like to be more spiritual but even that grinds against my rational tendencies. Anyway, I think it's interesting that other INTPs also have a hard time accepting religion. |
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Sponsor | | arjayoh | Nov 28, 2005 7:39am | There are lots of people who stuggle with their faith and I don't think they're necessarily INTP's although I am INTP and agnostic. Like 2 above however my father is INTP and a scientist and deeply religious..however he has used his rational mind to design a belief sytem which he feels comfortable with.
Also being religious (christian) does not mean you have to believe in everything in the bible or how priests and religious thinkers have interpreted ancient writings. A pure belief in God is no more irrational in many ways than believing in some commonly accepted scientific theories. |
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| | WAYN | Nov 28, 2005 4:52pm | | I wonder if it is possible to be an INTP and a fundamentalist at the same time. But looking at this thread so far, some trends are emerging. We definitely seem to leen toward being atheist/agnostic. |
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Sponsor | | Laukev7 | Nov 28, 2005 6:59pm | | Unlikely, because INTPs are perceivers. |
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