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[W:121] What is your religion?

What is your religion?

  • Catholic

    Votes: 4 6.9%

  • Anglican Community - Episcopalian etc

    Votes: 1 1.7%

  • Protestant

    Votes: 6 10.3%

  • other Christian confessions

    Votes: 4 6.9%

  • Jewish

    Votes: 1 1.7%

  • Islamic

    Votes: 1 1.7%

  • Hindu

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Buddhist

    Votes: 2 3.4%

  • others

    Votes: 5 8.6%

  • none

    Votes: 34 58.6%
  • Total voters
    58
Rising Sun said:
What list are you using?

World’s largest religion by population is still Christianity | Pew Research Center
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The left side has Jews at .2% of world population (~7 billion). So .2% of 7 billion = ~140 million.

The right side has Jews at .01 of a billion = 10 million. Shouldn't that be .14 thus 140 million?

On glance, the numbers for Christians and Muslims appear congruent. Hindu also appears to calculate the same on both sides.
 
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30 Voters

And 21 voted "none".

It gets boring! :mrgreen:

Has the US become an atheist country? :mrgreen:
 
Evilroddy said:
Although baptised as an infant into the Orthodox Church ...
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That interests me. :)
Was it the Russian Orthodox or the Greek Orhodox or some other Orthodox Church?
I have been to Russian and Greek church services and found them very touching. Very solemn and soul-full.
 
Rumpel said:
That interests me. :)
Was it the Russian Orthodox or the Greek Orhodox or some other Orthodox Church?
I have been to Russian and Greek church services and found them very touching. Very solemn and soul-full.
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My Dad was a Scottish Presbyterian whose family was invited to leave the sect when they suggested that the minister be replaced with a piper. My mum was a New York Roman Catholic whose brief first husband went stark raving mad while she was a nurse overseas during WWII. She formally left the Catholic Church when they would not dissolve the very brief marriage and she got a civic divorce before leaving America for Canada. Nobody would marry them in Roman Catholic dominated Quebec except the Orthodox. The price of the marriage was the soul of the first born, me! I was baptised by the Romanian-Greek Orthodox Church of Canada but never really practiced the faith. I more often went to Catholic masses with my mum who still followed the faith as an outsider. Dad didn't give a fig about organised religion.

In an ironic note, I managed to baptise the Orthodox priest into my own faith and got his soul, by peeing on him just before he baptised me! He went on to become a bishop, I went one to become confused/agnostic.

Cheers.
Evilroddy.
 
Rumpel said:
Here is just one line from my creed:

Here is the original: ... et unam, sanctam, catholicam et apostolicam ecclesiam

and in German: ... und die eine, heilige, katholische und apostolische Kirche
and in French: ... et en l’Église, une, sainte, catholique et apostolique
and in English ... and in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church

It is interesting that the Anglicans say "catholic" in their creed.
I wonder what American Protestants say in this case. Surely not "catholic"?
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"Catholic" does not mean "Roman Catholic". Catholic means "universal" and yes, high church Protestants call themselves "Catholic" too.
 
Rising Sun said:
A matter of debate. Although Sunni and Shia are as far apart as Mormonism and Protestantism which, in turn, are different than Catholicism. Anglicanism is a minor sect and only created because Henry the VIII wanted to get laid. If we were to redo the list, I'd remove Anglicanism and split Islam into Sunni and Shia. I'd also remove "other Christian confessions". Perhaps a total count requiring over 100M adherents to make the list. This rules out Greek Orthodox (25M), Mormons (15M) along with most of the medium-sized religions on this list (including Judaism (15M)!): Major religious groups - Wikipedia
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"Anglicanism is a minor sect" you say....
 
Rising Sun said:
I'm just going by numbers. Feel free to define major and minor sects than rank them. Please and thank you.
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I am going by numbers. You do know that Episcopalians are Anglicans, right?
 
it's just me said:
I am going by numbers. You do know that Episcopalians are Anglicans, right?
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No, they are not. If they were, they'd just say they were Anglicans. Why are you working so hard to defend this? It's your right to believe as you wish. Why are you trying to hard to deny that right to others?
 
Rising Sun said:
No, they are not. If they were, they'd just say they were Anglicans. Why are you working so hard to defend this? It's your right to believe as you wish. Why are you trying to hard to deny that right to others?
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In America they call themselves "Episcopalians" because after the American revolutionary war the Americans had a bad taste in their mouth about the Church of England...Anglican, get it? At the time they called themselves "The Protestant Episcopal Church". After a while the American Church and the English Church reconciled and theoretically the Episcopal Church is now under the oversite of the Church of England.

You have a right to believe what you want, but that doesn't make it true.
 
Rising Sun said:
No, they are not. If they were, they'd just say they were Anglicans. Why are you working so hard to defend this? It's your right to believe as you wish. Why are you trying to hard to deny that right to others?
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In this case, he's right. From Episcopal Church (United States) - Wikipedia

The Episcopal Church (TEC) is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion and is based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere. It is a mainline Christian denomination divided into nine provinces. The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church is Michael Bruce Curry, the first African-American bishop to serve in that position.
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Rumpel said:
What is your religion?
Just as a simple question.
The poll is anonymous, of course.
Nobody has to answer openly in the forum.
If you click onto any of the options, nobody will know from where the click came.

On the other hand - why not say so.
I have no problem to say that I have been baptized as a Catholic.
But I am interested in other religions as well.
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I wasbaptized CAtholic also

but I hate calling myself that

the reason? I think the Church has fallen in many ways and I don't speak just of the priest sex scandal

it seems that since Vat II the CC has tried to be some watered down version of a protestant church and that has never worked for me and many others who complained about all the weird changes..

I hate the greeting in the middle of the Mass, distracts people from GOD. We can shake people's hands all week (and some people do at their job). Sunday is supposed to be about focusing on God. It is disruptive to the Mass... and I could go on and on about other changes I hate..

I just don't like calling myself Catholic... unless I am around someone who understands what I mean and don't mean by that word.. and so far, i haven't found that person

I know of 'catholics' who vote for pro-abortion candidates...

Please!
 
The Church of the SubGenius promises eternal salvation or triple your money back!

Eris has a nicer butt than Jebus, any day of the week.
 
narrowroad said:
I wasbaptized CAtholic also

but I hate calling myself that

the reason? I think the Church has fallen in many ways and I don't speak just of the priest sex scandal

it seems that since Vat II the CC has tried to be some watered down version of a protestant church and that has never worked for me and many others who complained about all the weird changes..

I hate the greeting in the middle of the Mass, distracts people from GOD. We can shake people's hands all week (and some people do at their job). Sunday is supposed to be about focusing on God. It is disruptive to the Mass... and I could go on and on about other changes I hate..

I just don't like calling myself Catholic... unless I am around someone who understands what I mean and don't mean by that word.. and so far, i haven't found that person

I know of 'catholics' who vote for pro-abortion candidates...

Please!
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Something like the above apples to me, except instead of just shunning the religion I was baptized under, I declared them all to be bull****. Thus far, I have seen no reason to believe I made the wrong decision on that.
 
WillyPete said:
The Church of the SubGenius promises eternal salvation or triple your money back!

Eris has a nicer butt than Jebus, any day of the week.
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When I was a younger man, I dated a pagan and a wiccan who were dating each other. Now, that was fun. Best part was telling them apart.

...in the dark.
 
calamity said:
When I was a younger man, I dated a pagan and a wiccan who were dating each other. Now, that was fun. Best part was telling them apart.

...in the dark.
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Were they male or female?
 
calamity said:
When I was a younger man, I dated a pagan and a wiccan who were dating each other. Now, that was fun. Best part was telling them apart.

...in the dark.
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Nice. Not nearly so much fun, but I knew a voodoo mambo once who I am convinced poisoned another friend of ours related to a ritual she oversaw. Berkeley is a strange town.
 
RAMOSS said:
In this case, he's right. From Episcopal Church (United States) - Wikipedia
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No, he's not. It's like saying all Baptists are the same. They have things in common, hence the "communion" but are distinctly different groups.


What is the Anglican Communion?
But there is no central authority in the Anglican Communion. All of the provinces are autonomous and free to make their own decisions in their own ways – guided by recommendations from the four Instruments: the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lambeth Conference, the Primates’ Meeting and the Anglican Consultative Council.
 
Rumpel said:
What is your religion?
Just as a simple question.
The poll is anonymous, of course.
Nobody has to answer openly in the forum.
If you click onto any of the options, nobody will know from where the click came.

On the other hand - why not say so.
I have no problem to say that I have been baptized as a Catholic.
But I am interested in other religions as well.
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Education. I was raised a Protestant, but I got tired of rolling my eyes.
 
Rising Sun said:
No, he's not. It's like saying all Baptists are the same. They have things in common, hence the "communion" but are distinctly different groups.


What is the Anglican Communion?
But there is no central authority in the Anglican Communion. All of the provinces are autonomous and free to make their own decisions in their own ways – guided by recommendations from the four Instruments: the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lambeth Conference, the Primates’ Meeting and the Anglican Consultative Council.
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No, Baptists do not have ecclesiastical polity, Anglicans do. But I know what a waste of time pointing out facts is around here.
 
Rumpel said:
Do not despair! Keep up the good work! :)
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Around here you can say the sun appears in the east every morning and somebody will start an argument about it.
 
I see that things have changed a bit here in this poll.
Buddhist has got 2 votes out of 37 voters.
 
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