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Debate Politics Religion Census

What religion are you


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Boycotting threads that are clearly stupid and ill-represented would make most of the internet off-limits to you.

It is quite possible that mankind's salvation lies with an ever increasing proportion of the worlds population becoming Atheist
believing in hobgoblins, elves & Santa might have had some justification
in primitive times but these days its just downright embarrassing doncha think?

Perhaps, but on the other hand we can all bear immediate witness to the utter nonsense spewing from our shining examples of great intelligence, reason and knowledge, relentlessly charging forward without the guiding and steadying hand of faith and morality - the American college and university system.
 
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Boycotting threads that are clearly stupid and ill-represented would make most of the internet off-limits to you.

It is quite possible that mankind's salvation lies with an ever increasing proportion of the worlds population becoming Atheist
believing in hobgoblins, elves & Santa might have had some justification
in primitive times but these days its just downright embarrassing doncha think?

I am boycotting the way the poll was made, not the idea of the poll. I don't have a problem with there being a poll regarding the religious affinity of the DP population, I just want it to be a valid poll. Or multiple polls.

Not having any of the following things in a poll about religious identity is signs of an innability to start a proper thread:
-sunni islam
-shia islam
-orthodox christianity
-Tehvana buddhism
-Mahayana buddhism
-shintoism

And putting things like LDS instead of southern baptist or other evangelicals is also a sign that this thread has started on the wrong foot.
 
One of my favorite things about religious folks is that they have a hard time getting their heads around the concept
that Atheists might not have to rely on dogma to lead morally upstanding lives.

At times I'm laugh to think that I've lead a far more Christian life than most Christians :shock:
 
But I DO wanna say I thank Gawd everyday I live in a Judeo-Christian nation ;)
 
I am boycotting the way the poll was made, not the idea of the poll. I don't have a problem with there being a poll regarding the religious affinity of the DP population, I just want it to be a valid poll. Or multiple polls.

Not having any of the following things in a poll about religious identity is signs of an innability to start a proper thread:
-sunni islam
-shia islam
-orthodox christianity
-Tehvana buddhism
-Mahayana buddhism
-shintoism

And putting things like LDS instead of southern baptist or other evangelicals is also a sign that this thread has started on the wrong foot.

Its an American Centric Poll, which is understandable given that this is an American site.
 
lawl see Rainman
That's why religion is so silly thar's just to danged many of em

It would be like 177 different versions of the theory of general relativity all claiming to be correct
and all the while for some reason unexplainable reason never being able to resolve which one is correct.
 
Its an American Centric Poll, which is understandable given that this is an American site.

The USA has a growing orthodox population.
 
The USA has a growing orthodox population.

However the majority are still Catholic/Protestant/whatever... in the USA
Therefore he gives them more prevalence than those who follow orthodoxy.
 
Quite true I see scientologists are conspicuously absent from the list :p
 
The USA has a growing orthodox population.

Is that so? I was unaware of that and if so, which of the different branches of the Orthodox community grow most.

I agree Orthodox Christians should be classified as a seperate group.
 
I've noticed that there seems to be no consensus, among those who self-identify as atheist or agnostic, as to the difference between the two.

Most agnostics I've ever known personally say they are "agnostic" because they do not believe there is proof of a God, but that they do not exclude the possibility, and distinguish themselves thus from "atheists". Yet most who self-label as "atheist" do not define "agnostic" that way. It gets a bit confusing. :shrug:

The way I usually describe it is that atheism is agnosticism plus practical philosophy. And in some cases, agnosticism is addressing a different issue entirely.

Agnosticism stops at the question of whether there can be knowledge about whether a deity exists. For an agnostic, presumably the answer is "no," but there is no conclusion drawn from that about how we live our lives.

In some ways, your typical atheist are even more agnostic than agnostics are. In most cases, they aren't trying to answer the question of whether it is possible to have knowledge of deities. They are only assessing the current evidence that exists. And for an atheist, the answer to that is "none." In addition, it usually includes a component of practical philosophy: if there is presently no reason to believe something exists, then we should not factor it into our assessment of the reality we live in until such a time as there is.

This is why there is such a thing as an "agnostic atheist," but not such a thing as an "atheist agnostic."

Agnosticism is mostly addressing a question of the limits of knowledge. Atheism is mostly addressing practical philosophy for living.
 
sounds like smoke and mirrors to me ;)

As a lifelong Atheist and a creature that shares 98% of his DNA with the Chimpanzee
I will readily admit "the limits of knowledge" but when I consider the advances in our knowledge
over the last two to three hundred years (in a Universe that is 14.6 billion years old)
heck just the advancement that I've had the joyous wonder to witness during the
infinitesimally miniscule 54 years I've been alive

I can live out my life just fine never knowing the answers to some seemingly basic questions
that hopefully we humans might (by the grace of gawd lol) one day advance to the point
where we can finally get the answers:
What came before the big bang?
What lies beyond the edge of the observable Universe?
How does this 3 pound lump of fat between our ears achieve consciousness, sentience, self-awareness?
oh hell while I'm being greedy the complete answer for ToE ;)

lawd knows there are times I wish I could believe in Santa & the Easter Bunny
 
The interminable debate about agnosticism and atheism seems rather pointless in this context. Neither are a religion so the appropriate census option would be "None".
 
I am in agreement with that analysis.
 
It's an irrelevant option on the poll, virtually all self-professed agnostics are actually atheists who don't understand what the terminology means.

You're inaccurately generalizing. Agnostics believe the truth about religion is unknowable. I am not committed to believing there is no god nor am I committed to believing in one. That means I don't fall under the definition of Atheist.
 
No, it means a real uncertainty, or one can hold a belief that something can be created from nothing...
Just to clear the air on this, agnosticism only means the following:

ag·nos·ti·cism (g-nst-szm)
n.
1. The doctrine that certainty about first principles or absolute truth is unattainable and that only perceptual phenomena are objects of exact knowledge.
2. The belief that there can be no proof either that God exists or that God does not exist.

That said, agnostics are atheists.
 
Evangelical Christian here, we are an endangered species on the internet :mrgreen:
 
You're inaccurately generalizing. Agnostics believe the truth about religion is unknowable. I am not committed to believing there is no god nor am I committed to believing in one. That means I don't fall under the definition of Atheist.

That is true, but this isn't a poll about the truth of religion, but about belief in gods. You either believe that gods exist or you do not. It is a binary proposition. If you believe a god exists, you are a theist. If you do not, and that includes not knowing or not caring, you are an atheist. Atheism is not the belief that gods do not exist, it is the lack of belief that they do.

You're an atheist. Deal with it.
 
Evangelical Christian here, we are an endangered species on the internet :mrgreen:

Can we trade the internet for the American, voting public?
 
Other - Übermensch
 
That is true, but this isn't a poll about the truth of religion, but about belief in gods. You either believe that gods exist or you do not. It is a binary proposition. If you believe a god exists, you are a theist. If you do not, and that includes not knowing or not caring, you are an atheist. Atheism is not the belief that gods do not exist, it is the lack of belief that they do.

You're an atheist. Deal with it.
By definition I'm agnostic. Deal with it. xD
 
By definition I'm agnostic. Deal with it. xD

By definition, you have no clue what you're talking about, but you're also liberal, so there you go.
 
I put Catholic as that's my ethics base, on various ontological issues I diverge though never publicly would I say my views on the matter are what "Catholic views" should be. That's up to the Magisterium and when asked in the capacity as a Catholic I'd defer to Church Teaching over my opinion every time.
 
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