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What Relgion do you belong too?

What Religion do you belong to?

  • Christian-Catholic

    Votes: 10 12.5%

  • Christian-Baptist

    Votes: 4 5.0%

  • Christian-Mormon

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Christian-other (specify)

    Votes: 15 18.8%

  • Islam

    Votes: 1 1.3%

  • Judiasm

    Votes: 2 2.5%

  • Hinduism

    Votes: 1 1.3%

  • Scientology

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Atheist/agnostic

    Votes: 28 35.0%

  • other

    Votes: 19 23.8%
  • Total voters
    80
Your Star said:
Christian, but i don't go to church. I'd rather connect with God on my own than have someone try, and make me think like them.
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I'm pretty much the same. I believe in a Higher Power that I choose to call God. I don't go to church, but I pray on a daily basis.
 
jujuman13 said:
Like Catholic priests buggering young boys in their care and acceptance of this by their Boss in Rome?
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Unnecessary baiting. Do not do this again, or their will be further consequences.
 
Pagan.

Eclectic Hellenic if you want to get fussy about labels.
 
Some sort of odd cross between a Reform and a Conservative Jew.
 
Lachean said:
I have no religion, nor do I consider Atheism/Agnosticism religions of any type.

To he who claimed that Scientology is a non-religion or a cult, I remind you that the continuum between a religion, a cult, and a crazy person is purely based on population (many - few - one).
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"Cult" as in "an organization that uses isolation, propaganda, blackmail, violence etc. to control people for the benefit of a few or one head honcho(s)"? Yes.

"Religion" as in "an organization wasn't claimed to 'not [be] a religion' by its founder, until reports of its fraudulent claims started to be made known to the government, then didn't perpetrate the largest infiltration of the U.S. government (especially of the IRS) in history, then didn't tell its members to make fraudulent lawsuits while it hired private investigators to look into the personal lives of IRS officials until they suddenly made a secret deal with the IRS that gave it tax exemption, including exemptions for "religious education" (something only scientology has)"? No.
 
Doesn't appear to me that he does worry about learning from others. Sounds like he doesn't want to be preached at.

I come from the same mindset he does. Have you ever read 'The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse' by Jeff VanVonderen and Dave Johnson? It goes a way in explaining why some of us still have our faith, but no longer have any desire to belong to a "Christian" community.

cpwill said:
interesting. given that Christianity is specifically designed to be lived out in a community, how does that work, exactly? and why do you worry about learning from others?
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Need to see a bigger picture. And more pictures of puppy. This is non-negotiable. Kthxbai.

ptif219 said:
Born again christian non-denominational.
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I'm frustrated by the fact that "Atheist" and "Agnostic" are always lumped together. I am agnostic. I am not atheist. I don't want to check that box though because 'atheist' is also contained. An Atheist believes there is no deity. An agnostic acknowledges that there could be a deity. But maybe not. But they have room to believe that there probably is a deity, but with enough skepticism that they are not a religious person. Also, as an agnostic, I wouldn't be 'shocked' if there were no deity. I'm almost indifferent because it is impossible to 'know' one way or another. An Atheist actually says their belief is that there is no deity.
 
I grew up as a Catholic, in a Catholic community in rural Ireland, and went to a Catholic school run by nuns. The local priest told us that anyone who is born into a Catholic community and baptised is a Catholic whether they want be or not. If that priest is right, then I am a Catholic. I dont practice any Catholic rituals though, and I doubt the virgin mother was a virgin. I think, in those days non virgins were discriminated against, and got the less desirable husbands, so if a girl could get away with lying about her sexual history she did.
 
Hoplite said:
Pagan.

Eclectic Hellenic if you want to get fussy about labels.
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Hellenic meaning Greek (ie Athena etc) correct

I had thought most Pagans tended to follow more of the Nordic versions
 
I'm somewhere between non-denominational Christian and agnostic/athiest. I was a very devout born again evangelical Christian but eventually decided I needed to re-evaluate some things.
 
spud_meister said:
thats agnostic
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Actually, agnostic means that someone believes that the truth of a deity's existence cannot be known. It's a belief.

Atheism is technically a belief that god does not exist.

Both agnosticism and Atheism, using the Oxford definitions, require a positive belief in a single direction.

So I don't fit either definition, as I lack any positive beliefs regarding a deity.

To explain, I do not believe that God does not existence (which rules out atheism), but I also do not believe that God exists (which rules out theism).

I do not believe that the truth of a deity's cannot be known (which rules out agnosticism), but I also do not believe that the truth of a deity's existence can be known (which rules out gnosticism).

Since that leaves me devoid of any beliefs, I am most accurately described as an "unbeliever".
 
Lord Tammerlain said:
Hellenic meaning Greek (ie Athena etc) correct

I had thought most Pagans tended to follow more of the Nordic versions
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There are several distinct varieties of modern Paganism. These include Kemetic (Egyptian), Hellenic (Greek), Greco-Roman (Roman), and several sub-varieites of Germanic Paganism. There are probably hundreds or even thousands of other different paths with more or less specific names. Some people consider Wicca to be Pagan, others do not.

spud_meister said:
pagans'll follow any pre-abrahamic religion they can get their hands on.
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Not true. Modern Paganism (as opposed to ancient paganism) is often revivalist in it's structure but it generally includes a continuation of older ideas. I know that my beliefs and practices are not thousands of years old, however the underlying ideas and values are and that extends to most Pagans.
 
Hoplite said:
There are several distinct varieties of modern Paganism. These include Kemetic (Egyptian), Hellenic (Greek), Greco-Roman (Roman), and several sub-varieites of Germanic Paganism. There are probably hundreds or even thousands of other different paths with more or less specific names. Some people consider Wicca to be Pagan, others do not.
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The problem lies when the conflation runs the other way-- when people consider all Pagans to be Wiccan. This drives many of the reconstructionists nuts.
 
Andalublue said:
What's that?
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I'm Protestant, but I'm not evangelical. I don't believe in a 100% literal interpretation of the Bible, and I'm a bit more liberal with my views.
 
I don't know anyone that believes the Bible is 100% literal. Otherwise, they would believe Jesus was actually a lamb and we're all goats and sheep. Baaaaaaaa....
 
Mellie said:
I don't know anyone that believes the Bible is 100% literal. Otherwise, they would believe Jesus was actually a lamb and we're all goats and sheep. Baaaaaaaa....
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You know what I mean, the people who think that Earth was created in six literal days, the anti-Christ will literally come and wage war with Jesus ect...
 
DrunkenAsparagus said:
You know what I mean, the people who think that Earth was created in six literal days, the anti-Christ will literally come and wage war with Jesus ect...
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Yeah, I figured that's what you meant. It just annoys me when people say there are those who believe every word of the Bible as literal. I can't imagine anyone not knowing there's a mix of literal and metaphorical language.
 
Atheist in most respects, yet still acknowledging luck and chance, symbolized as the Greek goddess Tyche, as sort of a "supreme being", with luck governing pretty much all actions and reactions in the world.
 
I do not follow a religion.
I tag myself an atheist.
 
Mellie said:
I don't know anyone that believes the Bible is 100% literal. Otherwise, they would believe Jesus was actually a lamb and we're all goats and sheep. Baaaaaaaa....
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But there are people who believe the Earth is 6,000 years old and Dinosaurs lived in that time (roughly 40% of americans), That's about as bizarre and outrageous as believing Jesus was a lamb.
 
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