Do you have a Faith that you practice (or just believe in) or don't?

[DainBramaged]

Poll question: Do you have a Faith that you practice (or just believe in) or don't?

[brooklynite]

1. No Jedi?

If's it's good enough for the British, it should be good enough for us.

[HopeHoops]

24. It is an accepted religion in the U.K. now.

[kestrel91316]

2. You left out "other" - for us neopagan ecofeminists with Anabaptist leanings......

[AndrewP]

3. I'm a Buddhist

[Tobin S.]

4. None. But if I believe in anything, I believe in tolerance

As much as I'd like everyone to see religious matters my way, I know it's never going to happen. So, might as well just try to get along.

[hendo]

27. As a Christian, I couldn't agree more.

When did everyone lose their ability to be tolerant when it comes to someone else's religion.

[cleanhippie]

48. I'm glad to hear that.

Perhaps you could get the rest of your religion to join you?

[Name removed]

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[DainBramaged]

6. One man's bullshit is another man's fertilizer

your hatred of those who have Faith is amazingly juvenile.

[stopbush]

15. How childish a response.

Ever heard the saying "hate the sin, love the sinner?" That's my position on religion - I hate the sin that is religion. I don't hate those who have beliefs.

I will defend your right to believe whatever you will, be it in gods or leprechauns. That doesn't mean that I need to park my intellect at the door and hold out the possibility that your belief in leprechauns or gods has any credibility or basis in reality. It doesn't work that way.

You're just pissed because people no longer defer to religious beliefs the way the once did, and the way that they never should have.

Get used to it. Religion is going the way of the dodo.

[CLANG]

17. I agree 100%

[johnnie]

20. "Religion is going the way of the dodo"

People have been saying that for centuries. I wouldn't hold my breath.

[DainBramaged]

21. Yet you never miss a chance to bash those who believe.

I'm not pissed. You have no idea what my Faith is. And your broad-brush bashing of Christians is just another form of bigotry. it's practiced openly here on DU.


Have a nice day! We're done.

[uncommon]

26. It's not hatred. But you can't expect those of us who view the world in a rational fashion to

be all lovey dovey about those who believe in the magical man in the sky (or whatever other deistic foolishness they believe) just because they are fellow Democrats.

[DainBramaged]

29. Why are you rational for your non-belief and those that Believe otherwise not?

See, that's exactly the point. You don't practice religion, yet you prosthelytize that those who do shouldn't, therefore you practice the religion of non-religion preaching to everyone they shouldn't believe in their religion.

Let it go, use your time wisely........

[immoderate]

35. Rational actually means something.

Religion does too. Some manage to use it as an insult when addressing the non-religious. How does that work? "You're really as illogical as we are!"

I don't proselytize. People can believe whatever they want. But I can point out where their world view challenges reality.

--imm

[rug]

8. You'd get the same percentages on a restaurant poll.

[LanternWaste]

9. I imagine we all feel self-validated to some point...

I imagine we all feel self-validated to some point... hope even, when we realize that others share our same world-views.

[quinnox]

7. agnostic

Which means I don't know for sure what is out there, its a mysterious universe indeed.

[bigwillq]

22. Me too.

:hi:

[flvegan]

10. Buddhist Christian.

I believe in God, just not like most folks do.

[DainBramaged]

12. I'm coming back as a proctologist scope

I'll fix everyones ass! Give me shit will they!

[flvegan]

32. That is so wrong on so many levels.

:rofl:

[lightningandsnow]

11. I'm Jewish.

Not just ethnically - I do believe in a lot of the tenets of the religion. But I'm one of those liberal relaxed ones. Not that there's anything wrong with being more observant.

I also have some pagan-ish beliefs. Yes, it is possible!

:hi:

[Yeshuah Ben Joseph]

13. I'm a Jew who founded Christianity

So how should I vote?

[CLANG]

18. You founded Christianity? How old are you now?

[supernova]

19. But did you know

at the time you were starting a new religion, or did you just want to clean up your own home grown Judaism?

:D

[Meshuga]

49. You should call yourself Yashuah Ben HaShem

...After you founded Christianity. Joseph is chopped liver now. Consider that when the name change window opens here at DU.

Regardless, nice seeing you here Jesus! We promise not to crucify you again.

Kind regards,

a fellow heeb

[daleanime]

14. Neon Genesis Evangelion?

And the Lord said, "Let there be fan-service, and lo it was good.":evilgrin:

[dimbear]

40. For those who prefer their religion illustrated, I highly recommend

Vaughan Bode.

[supernova]

16. Christian with

other tenets mixed in.

I call myself "Christian" but I doubt there's anything there that you would call standard Christian theology. I have my own sort of reinvented version that focuses more on the present and trying to see the true humanity and divinity in everyone.

[HopeHoops]

23. I voted for my youngest (of 3) daughters - Wicca.

She's 15 and wears the circle-star as a necklace. She's decided Wicca most closely matches her belief system, and is very adamant about the "no kill" rule for every living thing. My wife and I fully support her on this as it is perhaps the most logical of belief systems and she came to it on her own, not through indoctrination. She's also vegetarian and has never even tasted meat, mostly by her own choice. I say "mostly" because we didn't spoon feed any to her as an infant. We've been vegetarian since '89.

[Dappleganger]

25. Yes.

[closeupready]

28. You mean, am I superstitious? No. I don't believe in powerful sky people and such.

But I don't consider myself an atheist either. I don't believe in putting people into categories, so I'm not going to do it to myself.

[DainBramaged]

30. read into polls much?

It's a simple poll, and your by answer clicking on a category should be sufficient. Most would think.........or not even clicking..........

:rofl:

[closeupready]

38. Okay, lol, so just read post #37.

I agree with the first paragraph. So there. :D

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

31. "The God I don't believe in is an incompetant bungler" Yossarian

Paraphrased from memory.

[deaniac21]

33. I'm an Anarco-Syndicalist.

[DainBramaged]

34. Buried in the religion forum, oh well

Maybe in 2000 years it will come back.......

[old mark]

36. None. Raised in christianity, learned and studied it and many other religions

in colleges, and on my own for many years. I don't believe in any of them, and I don't believe any human can comprehend the real answer, should their be one.

mark

[Bitwit1234]

37. I WAS raised a Catholic but could not stand the hypocrites

and decided that most religions are the same. Sometimes I believe in a higher power and the goodness of my fellow man, but when you see the evil that they do, you ask yourself if there is a God why does he allow it. For example look at those who are the billionaires today they are using all those money to ruin this country for their own greed. I can't believe that a just God would stand the evil of the tea bags and the radical republicans either. Bachmann who spews s**t against people and proclaims to be a Christian. AND all the other republicans. See what I mean.

Obama is basically a good man and is trying to do what's correct for this country. Look at all the flack and hate poured at him. But Bush who really deserved hate thrown at him received love and appreciation from the same evil doers who throw hate at Obama.

[Speck Tater]

39. Buddhist Atheist/Agnostic for the last 50 years or so. nt.

[rrneck]

41. Nice kitteh gif.

I make up a new religion every day.

[ZombieHorde]

42. I was not expecting this poll to be so controversial.

This poll is currently on the top of the On The Fence list.

[DainBramaged]

43. It also proves something I've noticed over the past near decade here

Christians here are not thought of kindly, even the non-Fundamentalist types who populate this board.

[ZombieHorde]

46. What group doesn't get shit on DU? nt

[trotsky]

50. Precisely.

Christians have enjoyed their privileged place in society for so long that even the mildest criticism (of the religion itself or its leaders) is mistaken for hatred toward individual believers.

[GliderGuider]

44. Would others call Advaita a religion?

I wouldn't, so since I'm an atheist I answered "none". But I do have an awareness that everything is a variable manifestation of a single Source, imbued with consciousness and discriminated by our perceptions. I suspect that's going to sound suspiciously reified to some of the denizens of this board. To me it's just what it is.

[ZombieHorde]

47. Sounds like animism, which is a religion. nt

[GliderGuider]

52. Looks like you're right. Whaddya know?

I always thought animism required individual spirits in trees, rocks, animals etc. It turns out that the idea that everything is a manifestation of a single "ground of being" is animistic as well. Hey, I'm a religious atheist. Maybe I should check Google before I decide on my beliefs - now it's too late!

[Pendrench]

45. Catholic

[Meshuga]

51. I am an affiliated Jew

with "kaplanian" views as far as Jewish theology. In fact, I don't think beliefs really matter. Heritage and community are more important things I take out of it.