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What is your religion?

Catholic	6%	[ 6 ]
Protestant	6%	[ 6 ]
Mormon	3%	[ 3 ]
Christian - Other	11%	[ 10 ]
Shia	0%	[ 0 ]
Sunni	1%	[ 1 ]
Islam - Other	0%	[ 0 ]
Hindu	0%	[ 0 ]
Buddhist	4%	[ 4 ]
Sikh	0%	[ 0 ]
Orthodox Jew	0%	[ 0 ]
Reform Jew	1%	[ 1 ]
Jewish - Other	2%	[ 2 ]
Bahai	0%	[ 0 ]
Confucian	0%	[ 0 ]
Jain	0%	[ 0 ]
Shinto	0%	[ 0 ]
Pagan	1%	[ 1 ]
Non-Religious/Secular	47%	[ 44 ]
Other	16%	[ 15 ]

Total votes : 93

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18 Jan 2012, 1:03 am

I'm a Christian.

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18 Jan 2012, 2:29 am

Ganondox wrote:

Atheism is not the lack of religion, Atheism not the lack of religion, atheism is not the lack of religion, ATHEISM IS NOT THE LACK OF RELIGION! Secularism is the lack of religion. There are secular theists and religious atheists. Now what have we learned today?

Atheism is the absence of god belief, and therefore the absence of theistic religion. Positive disbelief in gods is merely one form of atheism (so-called strong atheism). Most atheists are "weak" or agnostic atheists.

Of course a person can be an atheist Buddhist. There are rather theistic schools of Buddhism that believe in higher beings that inhabit the celestial realms, but other forms of Buddhism are technically atheistic. I personally view them more as life philosophies than religions.

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18 Jan 2012, 2:55 am

Henbane wrote:

I'm surprised there's only one Pagan in the survey.

Yes, I'm missing religions like Asatru. Some would list that as Pagan, but when I hear "pagan" I rather think of Celtic Wicca, Neo-Druidism and Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism. I would at least distinguish between Celtic and Norse paganism.

I'm also missing Taoism, Zoroastrianism, Deism, Rastafarianism, Naturalistic Pantheism, New Age Spirituality, Cosmic Humanism, Native American and Inuit Religions, Australian Aboriginal Mythology, Jediism (there really are practicing Jedis out there, as crazy as this sounds), and of course Satanism. It's kind of funny that Satanism is never included in these lists

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And also intrigued about the non-Protestant non-Catholic non-Mormon Christians. What denomination are you all...?

There are also Anabaptists (Mennonites, Amish and Pentecostal), Apostolic Christians, Unitarians, Quakers, Jehovah's Witnesses... I've read somewhere that there are over 30,000 Christian denominations

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18 Jan 2012, 3:19 am

Paganism at it's core is simply an Earth based religion. Pagans worship nature.

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18 Jan 2012, 4:31 am

I am not entirely sure.
I agree most with Buddhism,pantheism,deism and taoism. If I could find a religion that combined all of these beliefs than I would convert.

The abrahamic religion are obsessed with murder,violence and genocide. It is mentioned in their holy books.
An all knowing and all powerful god should never let his people do these thing.

I am very angry at the Catholic church but I can not become a militant atheist.

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18 Jan 2012, 5:15 pm

Atheist.

And at the risk of being pedantic (I am not trying to be; I don't read between the lines very well and you might have already stated what I am saying):

CrazyCatLord wrote:

...and of course Satanism. It's kind of funny that Satanism is never included in these lists

Actually, there are numerous denominations of Satanism. When LeVey started Satanism, it was actually an atheist movement. It was essentially a parody of the Church/Christianity. If there is going to be a distinction between all the Christians, Jews, Muslims, etc on this list, the Satanism list would actually be pretty long as well.

There is also Luciferianism. That I believe has at least 4 distinct branches in it as well.

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18 Jan 2012, 5:27 pm

CrazyCatLord wrote:

Henbane wrote:

I'm surprised there's only one Pagan in the survey.

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And also intrigued about the non-Protestant non-Catholic non-Mormon Christians. What denomination are you all...?

I wasn't referring to the number of options you gave, but the number of respondents in each category.

I'd also include most of the Christian denominations you mention above in the Protestant fold.

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18 Jan 2012, 5:29 pm

I'm a traditionalist Catholic.

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18 Jan 2012, 6:43 pm

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....I see another mormon vote.

Message me if you are to scared to say here, whomever you may be.

Oh, and not all christian denominations are protestant...LDS certainly isn't.

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18 Jan 2012, 8:00 pm

For anyone complaining about missing religions you have to realize that this forum only allows so many poll options, I tried to choose the ones that would hit the widest area and actually get results.

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18 Jan 2012, 8:05 pm

CrazyCatLord wrote:

Ganondox wrote:

This. People seem to get confused and think all religions are theistic, as they only focus on the Abrahamic religions.

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19 Jan 2012, 12:05 am

My views on religion were influenced at an early age by my mother, for the following reason:

In early 1971, she lived in San Francisco. She and a friend were out one day and they met up with a preacher on the street, who was trying to raise money. Mom said that while she didn't agree with all of his interpretations, he had done some good things in the community, like starting a homeless shelter and soup kitchen--he was fulfilling a real need, so she gave him $5 (which went much farther then!). She went on with her life, got married, moved away, and never gave him any more thought. She said the next time she heard anything about him was several years later, when he was on the news because he'd convinced 900 people to drink poisoned koolaid.

That haunted her until the day she died, and has left me with a VERY strong distrust of religion!!

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19 Jan 2012, 10:14 pm

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Well they did know the flavor aid was poisoned, and he did kill himself as well....

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19 Jan 2012, 10:41 pm

I am a Christian. It is not a religion, it is a relationship with Jesus Christ.

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