NationStates Jolt Archive

Just want to know.

Where i live? USA? Christianity and other brach-offs of christianity.

Columbus, Ohio, USA which used to be a world center of Methodism. It's still mainly Protestant but there are a lot of Muslim Somalis and Catholics nowadays.

In NJ it's mostly Catholic i believe.

I think in Alberta it's Catholics that predominate, but I may be mistaken in this. Something of a Christian flavour.

Happily Catholic,
:) Aiera

The huge Maltese population here ensures that the region is predominantly catholic.

Protestant. Some hindus tried to build a massive temple here, but we shut em down. Or at least the city council did, but I randomly voted for a few...

Church of Sweden, i.e. Lutheranism. (Protestant Christianity). http://www.svenskakyrkan.se/

A very large proportion of Swedes are members (e.g. christened, confirmed), but the actual attendence of church (e.g. on a Sunday) is very very low. It's a pretty much a secular society really.

Jediism

I like the mix here. Something from everything. Some churches, a hindu temple, a mosque, some buddhists, and lot's of shrines where people worship whom they please. And best of all, lot's of different kind of food.

Oh, sorry, I guess, I forgot the Jewish in the list. Well, religion to me is something like a football club and who knows all of them except some hooligans?

Sunni Islam.

Well, their are somewhat related, more so than the Shi'ites. They represent somewhat 80% of the population of the country I live in.

70% of the muslims (56% of the population), live outside the city, and are still very fundemantel in their beliefs, especially the northern states near the borders of Thailand. Hence, those insurgents in Southern Thailand go back and forth the borders. They even speak the same language (not Thai but Malay).

None of the poll items fit Brazil.
Religion is a major part of life here, but it is not seen as a matter of choice between religions. You can belong to as many diferent religions as you want to.

Oficially, we are a Catholic country, according to cenus returns. (The constitution is neutral in regard to religion) but in practice we are a mixture of none and all.

nobody choice hindu. no indish people here?

I put Catholic, simply because for the majority of my life freinds, family freinds and neighbours were nearly exclusively Catholic.

I live in a German protestant region.

Lutheran? There are a lot of missing options from your poll, in case you wanted to know.

I'm not sure about the translation but I belong to the Evangelic-Lutheran church of Finland like most of us.

Lutheran? There are a lot of missing options from your poll, in case you wanted to know.

I think Lutheran can be considered Protestant (not quite technically.. ).

Lutheran? There are a lot of missing options from your poll, in case you wanted to know.
Lutherans are protestants too.

<edit>like reformists and anglican</edit>
second edit
the one main Christian option missing is Orthodox

Lutherans are protestants too.

<edit>like reformists and anglican</edit>
second edit
the one main Christian option missing is Orthodox

As a resident of the USA I'm offended that this poll has neglected to include our national religion as an option.

Narcissistic self-interested ethnocentrism defended with selective quotes from some old book that has something to do with some zombie vampire and how his ghost-dad mellowed a bit in his old age.

I'm suprised so many here don't know the origin of their country's main religion.
There are three main "lines" in Christianity: Catholics, Orthodox (since 1054) and Protestants (since 16th century). Again Protestant church has divided into three main lines: Anglican, Reformist and Lutheran (from which many other churhes were born e.g. babtists, methodists, latter-day saints etc)

About 20% of world's population is catholic.

As a resident of the USA I'm offended that this poll has neglected to include our national religion as an option.
what are you talking about

Narcissistic self-interested ethnocentrism defended with selective quotes from some old book that has something to do with some zombie vampire and how his ghost-dad mellowed a bit in his old age.

Christianity is nonetheless one of the two largest religions in the world, and most people on nationstates live in historically Christian nations.

no indish people here?
What do you expect, India is one of the poorest countries of the world. You expect them to have internet or (even) computers?

As a resident of the USA I'm offended that this poll has neglected to include our national religion as an option.

Narcissistic self-interested ethnocentrism defended with selective quotes from some old book that has something to do with some zombie vampire and how his ghost-dad mellowed a bit in his old age.
Heh, you just have to choose the local religion thing.

Here people tend to be anti-religious extremists. Any believer in god is called a fascist or nazi and is treated like shit.
I believe the major religion is atheism or maybe god believers hide themselves I don't know.

What do you expect, India is one of the poorest countries of the world. You expect them to have internet or (even) computers?
eh, there are some 18 000 000 internet users in India... :)

Officially a mix of Buddhism and Shinto. Unofficially (and my poll selection) nothing.

What do you expect, India is one of the poorest countries of the world. You expect them to have internet or (even) computers?

There's a HUGE gap between the rich and the poor. The median is poor. The poor is destitute.

Darn, HelioTerra beat me to it.

Imagine 18 million pc users out of a Billion. Thats 1.8% of the population of India only you know. :D

Since I'm in college, Ennui.

Narcissistic self-interested ethnocentrism defended with selective quotes from some old book that has something to do with some zombie vampire and how his ghost-dad mellowed a bit in his old age.*shock* I love you, man. :)

The overwhelming majority in my area is Protestantism (...yay, bible belt...), but being a university town we have a healthy mix of everything from Buddhism to Wicca. That makes me happy.

Baptism rules in the good ole Oklahoma. There are also lots of nondemoninational churches here too. Hell there are just a ton of churches here. You can't escape it. They'll eat your brain.

Christianity. Live in a stupid small village in England. So incredibly un-diverse with religions and races.

Most people where I live are Catholics.

Church of Sweden, i.e. Lutheranism. (Protestant Christianity). http://www.svenskakyrkan.se/

A very large proportion of Swedes are members (e.g. christened, confirmed), but the actual attendence of church (e.g. on a Sunday) is very very low. It's a pretty much a secular society really.
That's strange. Isn't the church even linked to the government of Sweden, and yet church attendance is very low?

Baptism rules in the good ole Oklahoma. There are also lots of nondemoninational churches here too. Hell there are just a ton of churches here. You can't escape it. They'll eat your brain.
So, Bible Belt?

TONS of Protestant churches in the Dayton area and people are pretty hardcore about it. I'm happy to say, though, that we have two places for Buddhists to go and a Hindu temple up the street. At the university, we have a few who follow Islam and a huge Indian population, but they mainly live on campus and keep to themselves. Church groups pretty much dominate the university groups, though.

Most people where I live are Catholics.


That's strange. Isn't the church even linked to the government of Sweden, and yet church attendance is very low?

No, not any more. The chuch was disestablished a few years ago (I think it was beginning of 2000, but I don't remember exactly). Even so, it's made no difference. Don't forget, England has a state church, and sees the same level of poor attendance. As do the other Nordic countries.

How about in Ireland, is attendence still strong in both main communities (catholic / protestant)?

I think that here in Berkeley, Judaism probably constitutes a plurality.

USA, protestant. New england, catholic.. I think.

So, Bible Belt?

Well, where I live.. in this city in New england.. we have a shitload of churches left and right and catholic schools all over the place.

That's strange. Isn't the church even linked to the government of Sweden, and yet church attendance is very low?
Same thing in Northern Germany, and I actually think that the state church status is one of the reasons why the attendance is so low.

Protestant Christianity in the UK. It's predominately Church of England (Anglican) in England and Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) in Scotland. Not sure what it is in Wales in Northern Ireland. I'm Church of England, though not out of choice.

Well, Southern Brandenburg is in a tight Lutheran grip, at least out in the villages, anyways, attendance is low thanks to 50 years of atheism being official "religion" of the German Democratic Republic (or East Germany, as you might know it), so most of the people around here are atheists, although the society is based on Christianity with all its morals, ideas, customs and stuff. Martin Luther is from a town less than 200km away from my area, we were "ground zero" for the Christian reformation of the 16th century (back then we belonged to Saxonia).

What do you expect, India is one of the poorest countries of the world. You expect them to have internet or (even) computers?


Software Programming is normally outsourced to India.

In my hometown the main religion is Christianity, in nearly all its forms.

Christianity...and hippies.

Columbus, Ohio, USA which used to be a world center of Methodism. It's still mainly Protestant but there are a lot of Muslim Somalis and Catholics nowadays.

*used to live in Columbus*

What do you expect, India is one of the poorest countries of the world. You expect them to have internet or (even) computers?
yes.. further to what the other two peeps said, India is probably the biggest source of technological innovations around at the moment: it makes Silicon Valley look slow.

poor does not always = no technology

And they handle most of the UK's telemarketing/director enquiries facilities from call centres. After a while it gets painful listening to a strong Glaswegian accent battling with a put upon Indian girl.

Where I live in the UK the major religion is Christianity and we have 5 churches in town. But most people I know are either atheist or agnostic, although I do know a few Christians.
But in the city (I live in a town on the outskirts) theres a wider variety or religion, including Islam, Christianity and Hinduism. I think.

Just want to know.

Money worship. People make mouth noises about all sorts of things, but the overriding deity in these parts is cold, hard cash. And lots of it.

Catholic, very few practicing. But asked 9 out of 10 will say Catholic.

Closest thing to LDS (mormonism) is Christian-Protestant, so I chose that. Welcome to Utah kids.

Closest thing to LDS (mormonism) is Christian-Protestant, so I chose that. Welcome to Utah kids.
Or you could go down the polygamy route and link the Church of LDS to Hinduism and (branches of?) Islam. :D

Money - money is the religion of the modern world and in it the modern man. A world in which I (sadly) exist and make up a small part of myself.

In NJ it's mostly Catholic i believe.
Catholics make up a big percentage, but nobody's got 50% or greater. From my observations of the number of houses of worship. Still, if you take christians in general, they are more than half.

Money - money is the religion of the modern world and in it the modern man. A world in which I (sadly) exist and make up a small part of myself.
The Love of Money is the Root of all Accountancy Training

Here, everyone spends every single moment when they're not working, shopping.
Isn't that just the oft-encountered condition of being female?

You forgot Mammon.
Here, everyone spends every single moment when they're not working, shopping.
Aside from that, I would guess Buddhism from the number of wee shrines in front of all the flat entrances in my buidling (aside from my door that is)