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What is your religion?

What is your religion?

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phattonez said:
Sounds like a fundamentalist, not necessarily someone who believes in their faith strongly. Interestingly enough, in the early days of the Christian church, it was considered heretical to read the Bible entirely literally.
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I disagree. Those values are the values of someone who is a strong Muslim, i wouldn't call someone a faithful or strong Christian if they didn't follow the 10 commandments for example, along with many other things.
 
kaya'08 said:
Someone who follows Islam to the last word of the Quaran, someone who lives and swears by it and implements it throughout his/hers daily life, decisions and views. And if not all that, than just one thing can dictate you are not truly secular; someone who is Muslim/Christian etc and is therefore biased to that sect. Secularists are not biased towards religion and therefore there own religion despite how secular they may claim to be does not shape there foreign policy, but is shaped purely on rational, strategical interests. For example, Indonesia doesn't particularly favor relations with other Muslim nations, nor does Turkey; because they are secular nations who share there values with other secular nations mainly in the west.
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Does it count if the Qu'ran can sway ones opinion or decision?
I think i am quite religious and somewhat secular

Maybe it is the Muslim in me but i do feel Muslim countries who try harder with non muslim countries rather than their fellow Muslim ones, have problems of their own.
And that does go for Turkey. It does like to see itself as some sort of bridge, when it is not. It is too far one way to ever be a bridge.
 
phattonez said:
Sounds like a fundamentalist, not necessarily someone who believes in their faith strongly. Interestingly enough, in the early days of the Christian church, it was considered heretical to read the Bible entirely literally.
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If following the tenents of Islam is being fundemental, then the 'fundementalists' in the Muslim population has gone up to about 90% of the 1.2 billion.

Who isn't a fundementalist muslim in that case.
 
Laila said:
Does it count if the Qu'ran can sway ones opinion or decision?
I think i am quite religious and somewhat secular
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Its an odd combo. I wouldn't consider a political view secular if that view was influenced by a religion/religious book, instead of sheer rational thought on your own part. If all your views are influenced by religion than no, i do not believe you to be secular.

Maybe it is the Muslim in me but i do feel Muslim countries who try harder with non muslim countries rather than their fellow Muslim ones, have problems of their own.
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And that does go for Turkey. It does like to see itself as some sort of bridge, when it is not. It is too far one way to ever be a bridge.
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Wether it is a bridge between the West or not is not up to Turkey to decide. That decision lays with us westerners. If we choose to embrace them as such, then they are. The Turks also have to be willing to accept that role. And i believe they do, hence there persistence for EU membership. But as Obama more correctly said;

"Turkey is not a bridge between East and West. It is where the East and West join", and i believe that to be true.
 
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kaya'08 said:
If all your views are influenced by religion than no, i do not believe you to be secular.

"Turkey is not a bridge between East and West. It is where East and West join", and i believe that to be true.
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Perhaps.
Maybe not.

All? No.
Some? Absolutely.
I'd be lying if i said otherwise.
 
Agnostic. Atheists are trying to make the world a world without religion and tend to frame believers as fools. I believe in a superior power but do not profess to know what it or he or she is or wants us to do. Jesus stated "Thou are God"...perhaps that is the entire story. I am skeptical of organized religions which are after all a creation of man.
 
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kaya'08 said:
I disagree. Those values are the values of someone who is a strong Muslim, i wouldn't call someone a faithful or strong Christian if they didn't follow the 10 commandments for example, along with many other things.
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So unless I follow every single word of the Bible literally then I'm not a strong Christian. Strange, I don't think that God literally created the world in 7 days. I must not be a strong Christian to you.

A fundamentalist and someone who believes strongly in their religion can be two very different people.
 
LowRevs said:
Agnostic. Atheists are trying to make the world a world without religion and tend to frame believers as fools. I believe in a superior power but do not profess to know what it or he or she is or wants us to do. Jesus stated "Thou are God"...perhaps that is the entire story. I am skeptical of organized religions which are after all a creation of man.
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How so? Frankly, I find the addition of "under God" to the pledge of allegiance to be absolultely ridiculous since it wasn't there to begin with.

I also don't like having "In God we Trust" on my money. I have no problem with people being religious. In fact, I want people who NEED religion in order to behave like moral beings to be able to have religion at their disposal. But what it does to the pledge of allegiance or money is beyond me.
 
phattonez said:
So unless I follow every single word of the Bible literally then I'm not a strong Christian. Strange, I don't think that God literally created the world in 7 days. I must not be a strong Christian to you.

A fundamentalist and someone who believes strongly in their religion can be two very different people.
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I didn't say just every word, i gave other characteristics too . Just the fundamentals of Christianity. That to me is a strong Christian believer.
 
Non-religious Christian. Haven't found a religion yet that doesn't tell you how to think and what your opinion should be and whom you should hate. Faith can be a wonderful thing but religion is at the root of nearly every international and many national problems we have or have ever had.
 
angrycarpenter said:
Non-religious Christian. Haven't found a religion yet that doesn't tell you how to think and what your opinion should be and whom you should hate. Faith can be a wonderful thing but religion is at the root of nearly every international and many national problems we have or have ever had.
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Strange, I can't ever remember the church ever telling me to hate someone.
 
I was Baptisted as a Roman Catholic but since I believe in Gay Rights, the death penalty and a whole host of other issues I by definition am not a Catholic. I just acknowledge that God exists.
 
chevydriver1123 said:
I was Baptisted as a Roman Catholic but since I believe in Gay Rights, the death penalty and a whole host of other issues I by definition am not a Catholic. I just acknowledge that God exists.
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What defines a Catholic for you?
 
Bible-thumpin', big-dunk baptisin', no-drinkin' no-dancin' Baptist, by golly. :mrgreen:


(well, maybe just a little dancin', when nobody is lookin'.)
 
Goshin said:
Bible-thumpin', big-dunk baptisin', no-drinkin' no-dancin' Baptist, by golly. :mrgreen:


(well, maybe just a little dancin', when nobody is lookin'.)
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No worries. We won't tell your pastor. ;)
 
I was raised Catholic (although we attended Southern Baptist Churches a lot). My wife was raised Southern Baptist. When we married we compromised on Episcopalian.

Now I am somewhere between agnostic and Christian. I would categorize myself as a Jeffersonian Christian more than anything else. If that makes any sense.

I would like to be more certain in my beliefs. I envy those who are strong in their faith. It's just that for me, reason raises too much doubt and I am unable to set aside reason.
 
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Protestant background. I haven't attended church regularly in a long time, but I'm steadfast in my beliefs. I've seen God at work in too many people's lives, including m own, to doubt He exists.
 
After reading this thread a clarification is in order.

If you are certain that God does not exist, then you are an Atheist.

If you believe that whether or not God exists or not is ultimately unknowable, then you are Agnostic.

If you believe that a higher power does exist, but the nature of that higher power is either unknown or unknowable, then you are a Deist.

Most people on the thread so far that say they are Agnostic are actually more Deist than anything else.
 
Goshin said:
Bible-thumpin', big-dunk baptisin', no-drinkin' no-dancin' Baptist, by golly. :mrgreen:


(well, maybe just a little dancin', when nobody is lookin'.)
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I consider myself a Gladys Hardy Southern Baptist:
Gladys Hardy said:
I love Jesus, but I drink a little.
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I usually split with them on political issues as well.
 
By the way, why does the poll above indicate two votes for Sunni Muslim, but only one user name is visible?

My money is on terrorism.
 
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