Religion

I believe they genuinely think they have evidence and that whatever it is enough for them. That doesn't mean they are right. It just means they have some kind of evidence that I don't necessarily agree with.

For things where there is "no evidence," I make an assessment of how certain that lack of evidence can be. I believe that there is no rattlesnake in my house. Now, I haven't really looked for a snake, so I'd say there is a small probability that there actually is one hiding somewhere. But they don't live in this area, and I have a dog who would go nuts if there were any kind of animal bigger than an ant in here. If I then did a thorough search from top to bottom and found no snakes, no snake droppings, heard no rattles or found any other evidence of snakes, I'd say the probability of a rattlesnake drops to zero.

For God, we've looked for a long time, and we've got a lot of stories that don't hold up on close examination. So I don't buy those. Some people have visions or feelings or see strange things. That's evidence, in the sense that we have witnesses testify in court who say "I saw the defendant shot the victim," and juries decide if that witness's story is telling the truth, lying or is perhaps mistaken.

When someone says they felt something or saw something spiritual, I can't say they are lying, maybe they really did see something. Maybe that something is real. Probably it just their brains generating strange things, but maybe it's more than that. It seems to mean a lot to them. I've had religious feelings myself and they means something to me. So I give it a small amount of weight as evidence of something we don't understand. On the other hand, I could also say that those feelings or visions are what people actually mean when they talk about God. They think it's supernatural, but it's just a feeling that they explain with cultural constructs like religion. The feeling is as real as love or friendship though. It's evidence of something, I just don't know what. Hence I am agnostic.

If I gave no weight to those feelings at all, as in they are just brain chemistry and visions or feelings of God are completely worthless even as a personal experience or cultural construct, then I'd say affirmatively there is no God and I'd be a gnostic atheist according to that chart.