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What's your religion?  

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  1. 1.

    • Christian (any flavor)
      150
    • Atheist/Agnostic/Nontheist
      283
    • I dunno, I'm just me, dude!
      51
    • Jew
      17
    • Muslim
      9
    • Buddhist
      20
    • Hindu
      1
    • New-ager
      16
    • Cthuluite
      8
    • Wiccan
      17
    • Republican
      0
    • SubGenius
      4
    • Don't try to shove me in your categories
      43
    • Other/Unlisted
      80
    • Nihilist
      13

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Now THAT'S a big avatar. I didn't know they could come that size. :shock:

LOL, yeah, I just realized it and deleted it. Sorry about that.

It should've been about a quarter that size, at least that's how it looks when I use it on other forums.

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:shock: don't shove me into any of your categories!

I just spent this afternoon finishing Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces.

there is something transcendent in the human experience, but whatever it truly is is greater than any human conception, any human naming, and and any human codifying phraseology. It is the Transcendent Beyond.

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Guess I might as well respond since I voted.

I'm an atheist because I lack belief in gods.

I'm an agnostic because I lack knowledge of every single thing in the universe and cannot possibly know if there is a god out there somewhere.

Therefore, I'm an agnostic atheist, also referred to as a weak atheist. Though anyone who happens to just be an atheist, I tend to find a little less rational considering no one can know anything on the subject, so we're all agnostics. That's my opinion on it.. tend to think it's justified given definition.

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Ok. I KNOW we have other Jewish people on this site--I've talked to them. Why am I still the only one who has voted? *pokes OtherJews*

Cate

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Raised a Catholic, (sort of. We never followed the rules.)

I voted "other". I guess you could call me a nature spiritualist. I love and feel connected with all of nature, but especially trees. :) Call me Druidish.

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Dude, Cthulhuite is a religion? Like...for serious? Some kind of Cthulhu cult-thing?

Well I have to say I don't fit in any category really. I was raised with "Buddhist" parents, but I'm really grasping this concept of "God" now and I think it's utterly cool. I have only got to the middle ages though >.<

I think...I believe in god but I don't concider it theism....

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I am Futilist Agnostic. For those of you that are not familiar, that means I believe that there is no way for man kind to know whether God exists or not, and, because we cannot know, it does not matter.

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I am Futilist Agnostic. For those of you that are not familiar, that means I believe that there is no way for man kind to know whether God exists or not, and, because we cannot know, it does not matter.

how is that different from a plain ol' agnostic? I am an agnostic, and my definition is practically identical to yours.

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"Don't try to shove me" -

Neo-shamanic neo-pagan sometime-Quaker Unitarian Universalist.

UU for short.

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Non denominational Christian here, but disappointed with those churches who are preaching a liberalised, watered down version of the Bible which seems to worship political correctness rather than the Word of God. I have much respect for Catholics, although I am not Catholic myself, and also much respect for Muslims for their adherence to what they believe regardless of what the world tells them. I believe that Christians of all denominations need to stand up and be counted on important issues. They are allowing the church to be divided and ultimately conquered by those hostile to the Christian message.

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Actually, I wonder why hell each of us has to belong to a category :cry:

That's often just a first step of a long stair. Et the end of this stair often rise discriminations and other unenjoyable stuffs.

All of us who are here share something and are citizen of AVEN.

I guess it's enough and we don't need to care of colour of skin, religion, or something else.

People who like labels can put on the "a-sexual" one, but there is no reason for any other kind of difference, either religious or racial or whatever else.

I feel cristian, muslim, jewish, buddhist, pagan, atheist, hinduist .......

Maybe I just feel myself as myself :wink:

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It is my opinion that all religions are superfluous although they have each served an important purpose in helping to raise man's spirituality higher. All religions are essentially man-made and are thus imperfect and open to corruption and abuse when they become institutionalised.

Having said that the world's religions are often the only few sources for the majority of people to develop their spirituality and to develop their sense of morality. All too often today the new religion has simply become consumerism and materialism, where the self reigns supreme and no-one else matters. This is when pornography and amorality become dominant and entrenched, so that profit and self-gratification becomes the only important things in life. Asexuals need to realise that a highly liberal, relativist and value-free society frequently leads to the kind of sexual obsession and the predominance of greedy corporations in the sex industry and media who know that sex sells.

Religion at least offers some form of resistance and bulwark against this liberal social and economic freemarket that ultimately degrades everyone.

BTW, I think most religions have some essence of truth in them but the only real way to free onself from the world of the flesh and karma for spiritual liberation is to free oneselfthrough a real Spiritual Master.

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I believe in doing as little harm to anyone or anything as is possible.

I believe in leaving the world a better place than you found it.

I believe in accepting responsibility and stepping up when there's a need.

I believe in sleeping in late whenever possible, and I believe in stepping outside sometimes just before a storm so that I can remember there's more to the world than just me and my problems.

If there is a God, and he/she/it/they is/are omniscient and omnipotent, then I believe it follows that he/she/it/they are also immoral. I prefer to believe that deities in general either don't exist, or are bound by laws I don't understand, but which would make everything make sense if I ever *did* understand them.

I believe that the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything is forty-two.

I believe we just don't know what the question is.

Yet.

And I believe very strongly in the goodness of coffee.

If there's not a religion for that, there should be.

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science may answer many questions, but it doesn't really give answers that are satisfactory to many of us, such as for the question "What is the meaning of life?" I've already given what I understand to be the scientific meaning in an earlier post, but it takes religion or philosophy to provide an emotionally gratifying one.

What I don't understand is why people insist on the point that life has any sort of intrinsic meaning, emotionally gratifying or otherwise. Personally, I don't think it has.

Borrible Cal.

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Brillant brillant thread...Katilian, I'm right with you although I describe myself as an agnostical atheist (not quite having a bob each so much as being aware that agnosticism is the rational stance while every cell in my body screams out 'there is no such thing/s as deity/ies!'

I know people are perfectly capable of functioning as moral and compassionate beings without any belief in any kind of religion at all.

I think science is the best way we've discovered - yet! -of examining ourselves and our wonderful fraught & perilous world & universe.

I think all religion stems from a fear of death & self-extinction, and a fear that everything is randomness. And we are pattern-seeking animals...

But hey! the answer to Life, The Universe, And Everything is still what the late great Douglas Adams proclaimed it to be!

Kia ora tatou, Islander9

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um, guess you could say i'm pagan agnostic! Can't believe in monothiestic religions (always believed a single god must be schizo), but have most trouble believing god is a conscious being. Maybe there is 'someone' up there, but it seems to me that 'he' should be bound by the laws of nature, just like everyone else, or it couldn't work ... so i guess you could say that my 'god' is nature, but even that doesn't really work, as nature is a force, not a god ... When you get right down to it, you never know until you're dead, and then, you don't care anymore!!

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I secondly (or thirdly, or whateverly) commend the original poster for the inclusion of SubGenius, which I voted for, by the way, even though I “officially” consider myself a(n) (strong) atheist.

dastraube: You really must read some Howard Bloom if you haven’t already. He expands fantastically upon the religion-as-meme concept and much, much more: check out Bloom’s The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History. Also, you might want to check out a recent article by the perennially lovely Dawkins in Free Inquiry magazine that deals with the meme of religion: http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/dawkins_24_5.htm.

endofthespiral: Your picture looks to me like some sort of filovirus – Ebola, perhaps? (My second guess would be Marburg’s Disease.) Do I get the shiny nickel?!

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Christian, no denomination (but not non-denominational, which is different). I'm Protestant, but I like features of other churches. I hate contemporary Christian music with a sick passion; I love boys' choirs. But Protestants don't do that...ho hum. I'm not an active Christian. Haven't been to church in a long while (except Christmas Eve).

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I am somewhat annoyed at the mixing of atheism and agnosticism in this poll. The two are completely different. Agnosticism means you believe that there is some vague Power out there but you haven't a clue what it is etc., basically an undecided person. An Atheist(like me!) believes that there is no God/Power out there whatsoever, and that we are the master of our own destinies, with no afterlife to look forward to.

Sherlock

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I voted other. I have a rather unique view on existence and religion, but I have had to explain it three times today already, and I'm kinda tired, so another time perhaps :)

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Agnosticism means you believe that there is some vague Power out there but you haven't a clue what it is etc., basically an undecided person.

Technically, agnosticism is the belief that nothing can be known about a God or gods; if they exist, what they are, what they do, etc.

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I was brought up and baptised Anglican, but I honeslty never beleived in god. I can remember always telling mum when I was young about not beleiving, she never made me beleive it so I didn't, I just can't buy it.

There was a time though were I wish I beleived in it all, lasted for about a year. I posted on a few message boards asking questions, no one could convince me though, the only thing people can come up with is having faith.

All in all I'm agnostic, I get the feeling though, the only afterlife will come from technology.

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