Kirby, based on what you said I'd call you a Protestant.
As for the agnostic/atheist distinction, read my original post and subsequent follow-ups. Agnosticism and atheism are unrelated. The first deals with philosophical views toward knowledge, whereas the latter deals with a lack of belief. In common usage, agnostic is used to mean 'not sure, could go either way'. This is not the academic definition. By the common definition, though, agnostics are really just atheists with a more euphemistic name. If you are split between the two options, that means you don't believe God exists, which means you're an atheist ('weak' atheist, to be precise).
Personally, I think "agnostic" is a worthless term because I think it is entirely indefensible to consider oneself 'gnostic'. I really don't see how agnostic can be at all meaningful.
pikamon- I don't think any particular branch of Christianity is the only one that believes in Theistic Evolution. Most Christians believe in evolution. Christian Scientists (not Scientologists) are a sect of Christians. I don't know any of their beliefs except that they don't ever use medicine or doctors because they believe God had a purpose in giving them the disease and only God should be allowed to heal things. When they get sick, they just pray. I think I can assume from this viewpoint that the rest of their beliefs fit "Christian- Fundamentalist" pretty well.
If they truly are very different from other Christians on major doctrinal issues (like, say, Mormons, and maybe Jehovah's Witnesses) I would be happy to add them on to the poll.
-B
As for the agnostic/atheist distinction, read my original post and subsequent follow-ups. Agnosticism and atheism are unrelated. The first deals with philosophical views toward knowledge, whereas the latter deals with a lack of belief. In common usage, agnostic is used to mean 'not sure, could go either way'. This is not the academic definition. By the common definition, though, agnostics are really just atheists with a more euphemistic name. If you are split between the two options, that means you don't believe God exists, which means you're an atheist ('weak' atheist, to be precise).
Personally, I think "agnostic" is a worthless term because I think it is entirely indefensible to consider oneself 'gnostic'. I really don't see how agnostic can be at all meaningful.
pikamon- I don't think any particular branch of Christianity is the only one that believes in Theistic Evolution. Most Christians believe in evolution. Christian Scientists (not Scientologists) are a sect of Christians. I don't know any of their beliefs except that they don't ever use medicine or doctors because they believe God had a purpose in giving them the disease and only God should be allowed to heal things. When they get sick, they just pray. I think I can assume from this viewpoint that the rest of their beliefs fit "Christian- Fundamentalist" pretty well.
If they truly are very different from other Christians on major doctrinal issues (like, say, Mormons, and maybe Jehovah's Witnesses) I would be happy to add them on to the poll.
-B