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Religion

Which (if any) religion do you adhere to/practice?

  • Christianity (Catholic, protestant, unitarian, etc.)

    Votes: 18 24.0%
  • Islam

    Votes: 2 2.7%
  • Hinduism

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Buddhism

    Votes: 1 1.3%
  • Sikhism

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Judaism

    Votes: 2 2.7%
  • Baha'i

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Shinto

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other (Specify if you would like)

    Votes: 12 16.0%
  • Nonreligious (Athiest, agnostic)

    Votes: 40 53.3%

  • Total voters
    75

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I'm simply curious the religious break up of DP. The poll only allows 10 options so I apologize if I left yours out. Also, I'm keeping the poll private for those who do not wish to disclose their religious background.
 
Atheist.
But I can appreciate religion's role in mankind's history.
 
I'm not sure and completely confused.

I was raised as a non practicing christian for a large portion of my childhood until we found out we were partially ethic Jews.
We then went started to experience more Jewish culture and it has grown on to me.

I've considered becoming a full on Jew religiously (probably reform Judaism) but I'm not sure if I can give up some of the christian beliefs.

I'm torn on it at the moment. :confused:
 
I don't practice anything specifically but If I have to be labeled I would fall under Unitarian.

If you've never been to a Unitarian Universalist church I would highly recommend it. It's great to see Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, etc. come under one roof and discuss the similarities between their specific religious interpretations of the same god.
 
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Ah, sorry. I didn't know it would post until I was done creating the poll!

In any manner, you can still vote.

I was raised going to fundamental Baptist and Evangelical churches. I even went to elementary school at my church. My parents were never pushy about the whole religious thing, though. I attended public middle and am attending a public high school. Since then, I have come to disagree with what I was taught as a young boy. I now don't follow in any category of the poll besides 'other'. I like a lot of philosophy, Taoist though, and I believe in the beauty of nature. I cannot call myself atheist, since I certainly believe in some ideologies. I believe that my schooling in a Christian learning environment shaped my interests. Currently, I'm in high school, but I want to major in anthropology in college, specifically the religious aspect.
 
I am a Christian, but not fundamentalist about it. I think that many of the stories in the bible are meant more for lessons and morals, than literal happenings/events.
 
Muslim but not crazy type religious Muslim, i tend to be dismissive of texts in both the Qu'ran and hadiths which contradict science. I am a secularist as well.
 
Run of the mill non-denominational Christian.

Growing up and as a young man I ran the full circle of religion. I studied many different religions, was even atheist and agnostic at times.

Saw to many things that pointed to a force greater than myself and believe it is the Judo Christian God.
 
Good ol' atheist.
 
Christian.
But I can appreciate religion's role in mankind's problems.
 
Born and raised Mormon, but I'm now something of a practicing non-believer as I hunt for a way out of the social dynamic that reinforces membership via ... well, that's a topic for another time.

Guess I'm really an atheist.
 
Why isn't socialism listed?

Where's Environmentalism? That should be on the list.

And I don't see any Obama-ism, either.
 
Why isn't socialism listed?

Where's Environmentalism? That should be on the list.

And I don't see any Obama-ism, either.
Because he's obviously referring to religion based on it's traditional definition. Not any and every word you can place 'ism' on the end of.
 
Because he's obviously referring to religion based on it's traditional definition. Not any and every word you can place 'ism' on the end of.

Oh, you mean a religion is based on imagination, unprovable yet illogical axioms, persistent insistence on devout application of faith to smooth over the illogical parts, and declamations of blasphemy and idolatry to all who stray from the official line that comes straight from the deity?

That certainly applies to Marx, Gaia, and the Messiah.
 
Muslim but not crazy type religious Muslim, i tend to be dismissive of texts in both the Qu'ran and hadiths which contradict science. I am a secularist as well.

Yea i always thought it was better to divde muslims in to crazy or non crazy muslims than moderate and fundamentalist muslims.:2razz:
 
Atheism is not a thing, its a loaded term.

I guess you could call me an atheist... if you wanted to define me by what I don't believe in. I'm also a non-astrologer, and a-unicornist.
 
I was raised a Christian. I wandered through Buddhism. Now I am just a man.
 
Atheist. But to give a little history, I was baptized and raised as a Roman Catholic, and had my First Communion, but was never confirmed. Then I switched to Protestantism for several years, becoming an evangelical/born again Christian but harboring more fundamentalist inclinations that were really equivalent to Old Testament Reconstructionism a la [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rousas_John_Rushdoony"]Rousas John Rushdoony[/ame]. Publicly, I was a friendly social conservative, doing nothing more malevolent than protesting at abortion clinics and writing letters to Senator Boxer opposing Gavin Newsom's gay marriage "stunt." Privately, I had an interest in the criminalization of homosexuality, fornication, and adultery, crimes that I favored the death penalty for. In the back of my mind, however, I always had a suspicion that God was nonexistent, a suspicion that I then attributed to the machinations of Satan, and pacified myself by thinking of Pascal's Wager (which I thought of independently) and the statistical improbability of human life forming without deliberate and conscious design, which I'd been led to believe was around 1 in 1,000,000,000...(23 more zeros or so). However, I was expelled from the parochial school I was attending (which was affiliated with my church) because of a dispute with a teacher (in addition to about twelve suspensions and numerous other detentions, lol) and bringing The Da Vinci Code and The Origin of Species to school, I distanced myself from my faith somewhat, the final nail in the coffin being when I brought more information about the theory of evolution to church as well as a Catholic Bible, which of course contained the Apocrypha. Then I started to get into textual criticism of the New Testament, and discovered the inauthenticity of several major passaged and books, and became a religious pluralist of sorts, then an agnostic theist, then a pure agnostic, and finally an agnostic atheist. It's been quite a ride.

Spiritual, not religious.

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Oh, you mean a religion is based on imagination, unprovable yet illogical axioms, persistent insistence on devout application of faith to smooth over the illogical parts, and declamations of blasphemy and idolatry to all who stray from the official line that comes straight from the deity?

That certainly applies to Marx...

The idea that Marx represents the entirety of socialist thought itself reveals the nature of your ignorance of political economy, particularly since he primarily wrote on capitalism. That said, I see that you've ignored my offer to a True Debate about socialism. If my position is so ridiculously illogical, why the odd silence? :2wave:
 
Yeah, I'm a less perky, less Jesus loving version of that dude. Also, I hate f'ing hippies.

However, your post does explain the whole boy scout thing. :2razz:
 
As it were, the letter to Barbara Boxer that condemned homosexuals as sinners was for a merit badge requirement, IIRC. I never got to speak to her in person, but I think I was taller than her even at age 12. :)
 
The idea that Marx represents the entirety of socialist thought itself reveals the nature of your ignorance of political economy, particularly since he primarily wrote on capitalism. That said, I see that you've ignored my offer to a True Debate about socialism. If my position is so ridiculously illogical, why the odd silence? :2wave:

Socialism is an emotional state, not a rational state. No rational person could buy that nonsense.

Yes, I ignored your offer for "True Debate". No one that can seriously post that small children should be allowed to be "emancipated" can be taken seriously at any level. And, since you already lose all arguments you get involved in, what's the point?
 
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