What religion or non are you?

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So many atheists and agnostics, yet not a single muslim

I used to identify as Wiccan, but these days I'd just say Pagan. Very eclectic Pagan.

Agnostic

I don't identify myself as a Christian but I believe in God. I don't go to church but I do pray.

Apparently I'm the lone Hindu here.
But calling one a Hindu is like calling a human a mammal.
It may be true, but it is ridiculously unspecific.

There are many very different religions inside of Hinduism.
I follow Advaita Vedanta, which is also known as Non-Dualism.
It utilizes the traditional scriptures of Hinduism (Upanishads, Bhagavad-Gita, etc.)
But does not pay a ton of attention to the cultural rituals and symbols that some may associate with Hinduism in general (deity statues, temples, etc.)

The essence is that God and Self are not separate. Everything is one. No heaven/hell or good/evil. This world is an illusion, and the realization of Self is the realization of God. Basically, WAKE UP! You are God and you always were. Celebrate the light of Pure Reality. And so on

^I find that to be beautiful. Now I will be 'chewing' on those word for awhile.

I vote Atheism

So basically you are pantheistic.

I tend to agree that religious ppl are probably more accepting of aspieness. After all, they probably would not be as influenced by pop culture as others, and thus would be less judgemental of an aspie. Although in practice it never proved to be absolute, they are still way more outgoing than me.

Now I feel kind of bad, because I been going to the bible studies in graduate school for two years and never actually socialized with ppl much. I guess I was overfocused on the idea that I need a girlfriend for an approval, and I knew that I was not a candidate for a simple reason that they are seventh day adventist and I am not so they won't be dating outside of church. But still I was probably wrong that I didn't take advantage of them trying to befriend me; I kind of passed it all by and was there only to listen to the pastor preaching. May be if I were more outgoing I could have network my way to girls that were not adventist, and would be willing to date me. But oh well, too late, I am in India now.

Small update to the original post.

I think myself agnostic because if there is a God/Gods who created this world and I heard from them, I would start believing in that God/those Gods. I believe in the slightly supernatural, like I believe firmly in reincarnation, but whether that's connected to a God or not I have no idea.

Has anyone noticed that the percentage of Aspies who are Christian is the same as the world percentage (pretty much anyway) for people who are Christian? I don't think it's the same with the other religions though...

I'm agnostic. I don't believe in God in the ways I hear commonly expressed. I generally don't believe in the supernatural either, but I'm open to the possibility of such things.

I come from a mixed Jewish/Catholic background: twice the guilt, half the effort! The familial squabbles were enough to turn me off to religion altogether. I considered myself an atheist for a long time, now I'm more of an agnostic I suppose.

Protestant Christian.

I do not indentify with any one particular religion. I would say that I share a number of beliefs with the Transcendentalists, Pythagoreans and Orphics. I also have an affinity for Hindu and Therevada Buddhist texts and the Philosophy of B. Spinoza (his deterministic formulation of pantheism). My facebook profile lists my religion as "Dionysian."