NationStates Jolt Archive

What religous affiliation do you belong to? if any.
Just wondering what the majority of this board consists of.

Raised roman-catholic. Now unbeliever.

Christian in about the loosest sense of the word

Seventh-Day-Adventist Christian.

I don't actively participate in any particular religion, although my personal beliefs are similar to Buddhist (reincarnation, etc.)

agnostic Jew

agnostic humanist with buddhist leanings.

and i love how only the abrahamic religions made the list.

The human spirit.

agnostic humanist with buddhist leanings.

and i love how only the abrahamic religions made the list.Its the majority of what i see on this board, i am not going to add some religion that might get one vote.

Other: Free Roaming Cattle For An Antartican Paradise.

We're new.

I guess I fall under Atheist as I believe religion is bs.

Raised a jew, now more of an agnostic.

My own brand of humanism is strating to look pretty attractive though.

agnostic humanist with buddhist leanings.

and i love how only the abrahamic religions made the list.

Okay, we should add Mithraism, Nostisism, Panthism, Hinduism, Taoism (or is that a life philosophy like Confusionism??), Bhudism, Shintoism, Baal Worship, Ashora Worship, Sunworship and Satanism????

Atheism is not a religious affiliation, silly.

Buddhists are atheistic, CoS Satanists are atheistic, etc. Yet these are religions.

agnostic Jew
Out of curiousity why do some people say they are agnostic jews or even athiest jews... Why not just say you are agnostic?

Christian / Catholic

I beleive in Nothing ...nada..zilch...and don't call me an atheist because I don't beleive in that either

Buddhist

Atheism is not a religious affiliation, silly.

Buddhists are atheistic, CoS Satanists are atheistic, etc. Yet these are religions.
would you rather have me change that choice to the "i think religion is BS" choice?

Full blooded Christian!

would you rather have me change that choice to the "i think religion is BS" choice?
Please do.

Out of curiousity why do some people say they are agnostic jews or even athiest jews... Why not just say you are agnostic?

For the same reason people say they are "African American", "Italian American" or "Hispanic American". It's an identity of seperatness from everyone else, usually rooted in pride and or ingroup biases.

Lutheran. ELCA Lutheran.

I guess I fall under Atheist as I believe religion is bs.
Believing religion is bs doesn't make you an athiest. Believing God does not exist makes you an athiest.

Edit:
Oh yeah, and to answer the poll, I'm agnostic.

Atheism is not a religious affiliation, silly.

Buddhists are atheistic, CoS Satanists are atheistic, etc. Yet these are religions.
please sir, be knowledgeable about other religions before making statements such as these, Buddhism is NOT atheist, agnostic is the proper term, and yes, I would know, i visit the Shambala center very often. I like so many slight Buddhists goin here, I would say I beleive in the four noble truths, eightfold path, and I follow 6 of the 7 precepts. Yea, my belief in reincarnation is shakey, oh, and if anyone says that Buddhism has a god, I might just break my vow of pascifism

I'm not quite sure what I am - even after doing a degree in Religious Studies!
The "I don't know =o(" doesn't quite fit because I'm not sad about the fact that I don't know.

I like studying religion, poking at it, shaking it around, digging through it, and occassionally bashing it to find out if anything useful falls out.

To me, it's important that people hold their faith , whatever it may be, because they understand where it came from, the problems it has encountered in history, the failings and the successes, not just because someone told them they had to.

My Professor told me I'd make a great rabbi...

Buddhists are atheistic.

More like Agnostic.

I am Buddhist by the way.

Okay, we should add Mithraism, Nostisism, Panthism, Hinduism, Taoism (or is that a life philosophy like Confusionism??), Bhudism, Shintoism, Baal Worship, Ashora Worship, Sunworship and Satanism????
well, at least get the top 5 world religions for fuck's sake.

i mean, three of them are there. add buddhism and hindhuism at the very least.

then leave a space for no religious affiliation and one for other. is it really so difficult?

furthremore, mithraism is not a religion, zoroastrianism is a religion.

I'm an autodeist.

Atheism is not a religious affiliation, silly.

Buddhists are atheistic, CoS Satanists are atheistic, etc. Yet these are religions.

Buddhists are most definitely not Atheists!!! They believe in a higher power, which denies them the 'right' to be labled as Atheists. However, one can be a Buddhist Atheist -- in other words, one can follow Buddhist principles out of his or her own free will and desire, and still not worship any deity whatsoever.

by the way, for the record, I'm Pagan -- specifically solitary eclectic Wiccan -- born and raised.

I am a fully praciticing Episcopalien Christian!

Muslim.

B

U

M

P

agnostic humanist with buddhist leanings.

and I love how only the abrahamic religions made the list.
I second that. How dumbass to say "no eastern religions allowed" in this poll.
There wasn't even an agnostic option.
Who started this, Zogby????

we believe in technology and science can explain our mysterys, if heaven and hell do exist, give us proof of such thing.. we have not seen this thing of which you speak of, what is heaven, what is hell? when such thing is known to be real, perhaps it will be taken into consideration.

I answered "I don't know" because I'm an agnostic. I think you should've put them up there, but use the proper word. My beliefs are not "I don't know" so much as they are "I don't think that it is yet possible to know".

I don't belong to any offical religion... I'm pagan, but of course that doesn't really explain much about my beliefs. But I believe in preservation of the environment, human equality, the equal right to life of all living things, and a load of other things.

I believe in Me.

I'm an athiest I guess. It stems from my parents not taking us to Church and saying "when your 18 you decide for yourself" and reading far to much Marx and Nietzche at a young age. Although sometimes I get all freaked out at the notion that there is nothing after death. I like the tenants of Buddhism and have Christian morals.

I have no problem with Religion and people believing what they want - just don't push it on me.

But I believe in preservation of the environment, human equality, the equal right to life of all living things, and a load of other things.
Sounds like more of an ethical or personal rather than a religious thing. I define religion as being an established religion based off of intuition and unproven or unprovable bases. But what you say can be reduced to political ideologies. I feel similar, and even toyed with different forms of paganism for a while, but I just determined in the end that I'm agnostic and hold my own non-religious beliefs.

Although sometimes I get all freaked out at the notion that there is nothing after death.
I used to for awhile, but then I matured a little and saw it in the ecological perspective. I think it is far greater for my remains to go into the earth and be recycled for future generations of organisms. The individual loses significance and I see the beauty overall in nature. I don't expect many other people to fully understand just how that is, but it is truly wonderful if you can.

I'm athiest... Probably stems from growing up in the deep south and seeing the blatent hypocricy of the "proper god fearin' folk" there.

I used to for awhile, but then I matured a little and saw it in the ecological perspective. I think it is far greater for my remains to go into the earth and be recycled for future generations of organisms. The individual loses significance and I see the beauty overall in nature. I don't expect many other people to fully understand just how that is, but it is truly wonderful if you can.

Yeah I worked in a cemetary for a summer - not so freaked out about after death anymore - but damnit I'm being cremated.

Bump

Almost Christian but "Christians" have done so many times wrong with the word that I can't use that word.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. We are called "Mormons" to make fun of us. But we are LDS members.

I'm Christian. To be more specific, I'm Southern Baptist, but that's not really the point.

Almost Christian but "Christians" have done so many times wrong with the word that I can't use that word.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. We are called "Mormons" to make fun of us. But we are LDS members.
Huh, is "Mormon" really made up to make fun of LDS? I always thought it was just another name for LDS. Most of the people where I'm from, Arizona, don't have a problem with being called Mormon. I'll try and keep that in mind...

Almost Christian but "Christians" have done so many times wrong with the word that I can't use that word.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. We are called "Mormons" to make fun of us. But we are LDS members.

How strange... one of my workmates told me he was a Mormon... does that mean he was mocking himself?

Atheist... but I prefer the term "Godless Heathen".

:)

Atheist... but I prefer the term "Godless Heathen".

:)
Agnostic ... prefer same term

Atheist... but I prefer the term "Godless Heathen".

:)
i think we all do

huh, i thought there were more muslims on this board :confused:

I REALLY believe in the Electoral College!!

Pagan but as I've explained before, to be more exact I have a mix of Wiccan, Taoist, Jaino-Hindu-Buddhist and, Shinto beliefs.

I'm a Communist and an Atheist.

"Apathetic Agnostic." I don't know, and I don't care.

Pagan but as I've explained before, to be more exact I have a mix of Wiccan, Taoist, Jaino-Hindu-Buddhist and, Shinto beliefs.
Sounds like you have a idenitiy crisis

meet your new god> http://maddox.xmission.com/

Out of curiousity why do some people say they are agnostic jews or even athiest jews... Why not just say you are agnostic?
I'm agnostic, but I still practice some of the Jewish rites

I'm an autodeist.
Are't we all... :)

Out of curiousity why do some people say they are agnostic jews or even athiest jews... Why not just say you are agnostic?

Being Jewish isn't just about the religion. It's an entire culture. You can be of Hebrew/Israeli/Jewish heritage without believing in Yahweh and talking the Torah seriously.

I am an atheist. Unforgiven, unforgiving, and unwilling to kneel before any lord.