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Despite the fact that these percentages hold absolutely no weight unless someone has knocked on every door in America and gotten an answer.....

The latest national poll I read in media outlets from December 2010 did not state this. Perhaps you are thinking of the number 60% because it was said 60% of all people who attend church weekly believe in Creationism. The other weekly church goers believed in evolution under the direction of God or secular evolution. Of Americans with college degrees, only 37% believe in Creationism.

Furthermore, our public schools are ran by the states, not the federal government. In my state, you cannot teach Creationism. The schools teach evolution.

I just took a position as a graduate teaching assistant. Creationism isn't even entertained in those circles.

Yummy...worms....

What part of Middle East may I ask?

And what's your point again?

I see absolutely no difference between your way of raising and how most regular moderate Christians raise their children.

and enough with this nonsense "since you're from middle east, then it's impossible for you to understand separation between religion and state."

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Have a nice day.

As a militant agnostic (Yep, we're out there) I could never, and would never have a relationship with someone who practices organized religion.

As mentioned earlier in the thread, I simply can't get along with someone who by THEIR own religion is forced to believe that I will burn in hell/suffer for all eternity when I die.

Sorry. Stop pretending to respect me when your religion leads you to believe that I deserve the worst punishment imaginable.

The love of my life is in a Catholic family, and is Agnostic, like myself. (as well as an aspie, must be fate. )

I was lucky enough to be raised by a very liberal family. My father is a doubting Catholic, my Mother is a spiritual reincarnation type believer, and my Stepfather (who I actually get along with very well) is an agnostic/atheist.

Living in Tennessee, I've been able to observe the Baptist religion very closely, yet from a distance. Funny how Christians are supposed to be a secular people, yet all of these baptists I see are racist, sexist, bigoted, illiterate, absolute douchebags.

Aw well. I've decided to pretty much avoid any and all members of organized religion (excluding a few. Buddhism, even Judaism are tolerable to me.)

I actually get very worked up over all of that religious business. Luckily the rate of non believers is sky rocketing and eventually, Christianity and similar religions will be like Greek Mythology. Eventually. That brings me peace.

Have a great day, everybody!

-Crow

You provided charts without stating the source or when the data was collected. My numbers are what the media has reported recently through the Gallup Polls as of December 2010.

Science journal.

newscientist.

Ive dated a christian before. But it was casual christianity and it didnt come up often. But I would not date a creationist. That's just debasing yourself. It would be like dating a heroin addict.

Ive found more issues with politics personally. I make fun of the far right and far left equally and someone might incorrectly assume that I'm one extreme type or the other. I once dated a woman of the far left, who is moderately famous today, and we had some problems over politics.

Okay... And from when? Atheism is a growing group, so that number changes. There's a secular humanist group here that meets regularly. They have more members than most of the area Protestant churches now.

I think it was around 2007-2008

the gallup poll you're talking about is this:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/145286/Four- ... onism.aspx

while in 2009: http://www.gallup.com/poll/114544/Darwi ... ution.aspx

I am skeptical regarding this huge change.

But those two polls ask different questions. The first one is more interesting as theyve been running the same poll for 30 years. It's always been in the 40%+ range, peaking in 1999 at 47%, and has since dropped 7 points in just 12 years.

Ive felt for some time that the internet is doing a number on creationists. They routinely embarrass themselves in a very public way and they must be noticing it. I see fewer creationist debates online today than I did 10 or 15 years ago. Hopefully gallup will start showing some numbers in the 30% range soon.

Since you've read earlier in this thread, maybe you'd care to read and learn what Christians who disagree with that stupid judgmental philosophy actually believe. The comments are equally available in this thread. It won't compliment how you've been judging people based on how they live their lives but at least you'd have some true information how every day Christians interpret their religious text. Don't get me wrong; I'm certainly in favor of people being as discriminating as they want to be about who they date on the logic that someone who's too critical will limit their own options and guarantee that they end up alone, sparing others the annoyance of dealing with them. I just think we should make it clear that you're dismissing valid information so you can justify your reasons and continue to perpetuate a misconception.

Now for the fun part...
Agnosticism is not a stand alone belief. There can be agnostic christians, agnostic muslims, agnostic jews, agnostic atheists and even agnostic buddhists. Agnosticism is a layer of belief, which is reasonable and complimentary to the complicated mind and heart of any individual. In some religions, agnosticism can be considered a "crisis of faith" but typically agnosticism is welcomed because it facilities discussion, debate, question, re-evaluation, and often a strengthening of faith. Agnosticism is natural. Someone can surely be a true Agnostic, possibly even a militant one if they don't mind people rolling their eyes when they hear it, but Agnosticism is not opposed to a belief system, not even an organized one.

QFT My Christian denomination believes everyone is saved by grace. No hellfire here.

The whole baptism thing sticks my craw. Infant baptism, adult baptism, full immersion, sprinkling holy water on the forehead, believer's baptism--why can't you all just agree to be glad you don't have to be circumcised?

We don't baptize.

I mean in general.

In the end, it's all the same worship of a talking dead guy who was his own dad.