Anything - religious, supernatural, you name it. My commentary will try and make the fine distinction between approaching a belief with a cynical eye, and approaching a belief with a skeptical eye.
The distinction being that most people hear skeptic and automatically think "close-minded" when in fact a skeptic is VERY open to any belief or claim, but just asks for evidence, whereas the cynic has already made a judgment against the claim or belief already.
Take my religious belief for example. I fall into the category of agnostic theist. What the hell does that mean you might ask, well - I believe there is a God (not necessarily a Judeo-Christian God, but at least something close to it) but I will readily admit I don't know there is a God, I don't think there will be a way of knowing there is a God (unless something VERY drastic occurs), and I will readily admit God could just be a psychological defense mechanism against the things in life that are outside of my control.
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