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What is your religious denomination?

What is your religion?

  • Christian (Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, or other)

    Votes: 39 34.5%

  • Agnostic

    Votes: 18 15.9%

  • Atheist

    Votes: 33 29.2%

  • Muslim (Sunni, Shi'a, Sufi, or other)

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • Buddhist

    Votes: 4 3.5%

  • Hindu

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Jewish

    Votes: 2 1.8%

  • Eastern Philosophy (Confucian, Taoist, Shinto, etc.)

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • Polytheist/Neo-pagan

    Votes: 2 1.8%

  • Other

    Votes: 13 11.5%
  • Total voters
    113
The responses here support my opinion that society is losing some values due to the number who are losing faith. So many are saying "I was raised this way, but I don't believe in it." I find that quite a shame.
 
grew up Catholic; now non-denominational Christian / other.
 
I was baptized Protestant and went to Sunday school and church probably a handful of times. I believe in God and the teachings of Christ, but I don't believe in or follow any man-made religions.
 
Was baptized but grew up as an agnostic/atheist. A couple of years ago, certain experiences caused me to question this view. Now I am Baha'i.
 
Christian atheist. Christian because I was born and raised in France and Christianity is all over the place; so if I was forced to choose a religion, I would unwillingly pick Christianity. But in truth, I tell you, I will remain an atheist - so help me god.
 
deistic muslim who still uses her mind
 
Mathematician said:
The responses here support my opinion that society is losing some values due to the number who are losing faith. So many are saying "I was raised this way, but I don't believe in it." I find that quite a shame.
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Losing values? Or getting smarter? ;)
 
paris said:
Christian atheist. Christian because I was born and raised in France and Christianity is all over the place; so if I was forced to choose a religion, I would unwillingly pick Christianity. But in truth, I tell you, I will remain an atheist - so help me god.
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:lamo You sound confused.
 
Dragonfly said:
Losing values? Or getting smarter? ;)
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Let's see...America is getting fatter, collecting more welfare, having more kids born out of wedlock, math skills declining, etc.

Yeah, the country is getting a heck of a lot smarter. :roll:
 
Mathematician said:
Let's see...America is getting fatter, collecting more welfare, having more kids born out of wedlock, math skills declining, etc.

Yeah, the country is getting a heck of a lot smarter. :roll:
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Do you have to have faith to have values though?
 
lapsed Methodist.

The older I get the more I believe that if there is a GAWD she has some major issues.

I fail to see the linkage between weight, education and welfare moms to turning from GAWD as many of the Revival, Evangelical, Fundamentalist churches are packed with dumb,fat and happy Faithful.
 
ChrisL said:
Do you have to have faith to have values though?
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While faith may not be necessary to be a good person, the genuine belief that certain actions are sins or that the body and soul are gifts from God will most likely lead to better moral values and behavior.
 
the belief in god must not come from fear . thats why there are lots of evil believers

nobody must believe in god for fear .l questioned these religions and teh concept of god and then felt the god by heart .

l can say l am a real believer for 3 4 years
 
brothern said:
I did not know that the rules of the physical world were written down somewhere. You probably should have told that to Copernicus, Newton, Darwin or Einstein if you had the chance. It would have saved us a lot of time looking for evidence concerning the natural worlds and figuring out how it all works.
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You lump Darwin with Einstein, and they are not the same. Einstein wrote down the rules of physics, the special and general theories of relativity, and he PROVED them beyond a shadow of a doubt. Newton wrote down his attempt at the rules of physics and they worked for everything that was provable when he wrote them. Einstein went much farther and his extensions were definitively PROVEN.

Einstein’s theories of both special and general relativity have been confirmed to be accurate to a very high degree over recent years, and the data has been shown to corroborate many key predictions; the most famous being the solar eclipse of 1919 bearing testimony that the light of stars is indeed deflected by the sun as the light passes near the sun on its way to earth. The total solar eclipse allowed astronomers to -- for the first time -- analyse starlight near the edge of the sun, which had been previously inaccessible to observers due to the intense brightness of the sun. It also predicted the rate at which two neutron stars orbiting one another will move toward each other. When this phenomenon was first documented, general relativity proved itself accurate to better than a trillionth of a percent precision, thus making it one of the best confirmed principles in all of physics.
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Theory Of Relativity

That degree of precision would me needed to control a nuclear reaction and make one splitting of the atom into a bomb vs. another splitting of the atom into an electric generating facility.

Darwin wrote down his theory and it has never been proven. Darwin certainly never set out to prove god does not exist, and he did not prove that.

You must differentiate between what is proven and what is theory.

As you point out, the origin of life has not been explained at all. Scientists are working on it, but don't have it yet and they may never get there.
 
Other: Spiritual Moralist.

I believe that Personal Spirituality and Universal Morality are much more important than any sort of organized faith or religion.
 
Tigger said:
Other: Spiritual Moralist.

I believe that Personal Spirituality and Universal Morality are much more important than any sort of organized faith or religion.
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those religions are the institutionalized forms of that morality.
 
My religious denomination....none.

I was never baptized anything, didn't go to church except for weddings and funerals.

I'm a spiritual person, but not a religious person.
 
Redress said:
I am a pure atheist. I have seen no evidence of any god, and as I get older I see even more how a god is not needed to explain anything. When the supernatural isn't needed to explain things, it only makes sense to me to believe in natural explanations that do have evidence.
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I see where you're coming from, but our natural explanations aren't all that. How did the universe come to be from nothing? Where did the first cell on earth come from? Did one cell really turn into today's humans? Personally, I think it makes just as much sense to say a God did all the above than to say it all happened by chance and a universe came from nothing at all.
 
Medusa said:
those religions are the institutionalized forms of that morality.
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With all due respect to all of the organized religions in this world; they do not and never have been the arbitors of morality. It is and always has been my belief that Morality supercedes religion by having been inate and instinctive in the human animal prior to its "civilization" and even for a length of time afterwards before it became polluted beyond recognition by both religion and "civilization".
 
Vapor said:
We've got a vast spread of political ideologies on this forum, let's see how diverse our religious beliefs are. I'm sure this has been done in the past, but...meh.

This isn't intended as a catalyst for theological debates, but if that's where it leads...y'all have fun.

I, personally, am an agnostic because A. I realized that the Christian stories I was raised with made no more sense than the Norse and Greek "Mythologies" and B. I don't feel like humanity is capable of understanding whatever supernatural force, if any, exists; if we can't stop killing each other, how can we expect to understand the nature of the universe? And C. almost all religions teach peace, yet they seem incapable of co-existing, and therefore, I have a problem with organized religion.
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Atheism is not a religious denomination....
 
Tigger said:
With all due respect to all of the organized religions in this world; they do not and never have been the arbitors of morality. It is and always has been my belief that Morality supercedes religion by having been inate and instinctive in the human animal prior to its "civilization" and even for a length of time afterwards before it became polluted beyond recognition by both religion and "civilization".
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l never claim the morality takes its source from religions .on the contrary ,l expressed that religions are just more comprehensive forms of the " morality"
 
Mathematician said:
While faith may not be necessary to be a good person, the genuine belief that certain actions are sins or that the body and soul are gifts from God will most likely lead to better moral values and behavior.
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Well, that depends. I've seen many people come and go out of church (and have known or know some personally as well) who seem to be under the mistaken impression that if they attend mass, then they have earned the keys to Heaven. However, it seems that outside of the church setting, they are kind of a-holes.
 
Medusa said:
l never claim the morality takes its source from religions .on the contrary ,l expressed that religions are just more comprehensive forms of the " morality"
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I tend to respectfully disagree. In fact I would suggest that religion is watered-down morality rather than comprehensive morality. This is due to the fact that religion filters morality though the sieve of its own viewpoint. Therefore it is only a fraction of the true Universal Morality.
 
Tigger said:
I tend to respectfully disagree. In fact I would suggest that religion is watered-down morality rather than comprehensive morality. This is due to the fact that religion filters morality though the sieve of its own viewpoint. Therefore it is only a fraction of the true Universal Morality.
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l didnt mean religious teachings are the same as the universal moral values .maybe l used a wrong term to describe what l meant.

you must know many religions advise you to avoid stealing ,gossiping , killing ,etc as well as practice of worship ,teachings ,rituals

also l need to know what you mean by universal morality ? because your worldview seems a little authoritarian and despotic

dont get me wrong ,l am trying to understand you
 
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