What is your religion/spiritual belief?

[JohnRM]

To be precise, you should have used "non-religious" instead of "agnostic/atheist"

It probably won't matter for those of us voting here, but it might.

Only to picky people who have nothing better to do; and I am not talking specifically about you.

 

[Perfection]

That would be the "I believe in a religion so crazy that I should never be allowed to vote in any poll ever again"-option.

That's not on the poll!

 

[Bill3000]

But to muddy it up even further, I am sure someone, somewhere has probably founded the "church of atheism' in order to worship the great nothing out there and declare themselves a religion right along with everything else. Wouldnt surprise me in the least.

Closets thing I can think of would be the Bright Movement, and that's a movement, not a self-declared religion. There's not even such a thing as a secular humanism church - though unitarian universalism might come close.

 

[Elrohir]

I'm a non-denominational Christian. Generally I don't even identify myself as a Protestant, unless I'm only given the option of being a Roman Catholic Christian or a Protestant Christian. I don't subscribe to the doctrinal beliefs of any one denomination, and am not a member of any church or denomination. (I do go to church, I am just not an official member of any. I'm not opposed to one day becoming a member of a church, unless that requires joining a denomination to do so, which it generally does.)

John, why did you separate Nestorianism (Including the Nestorian Eastern churches) and Oriental Orthodoxy? As far as I can tell, the Oriental Christian churches were almost entirely Nestorian. (See the Nestorian stele in China, and the Christian members of Ghengi's Khan's court) Why not just have had a Nestorian option, and a Church of the East option to cover the non-Nestorian Eastern/Orientals? And are you really an animist?

 

[Bill3000]

John, why did you separate Nestorianism (Including the Nestorian Eastern churches) and Oriental Orthodoxy? As far as I can tell, the Oriental Christian churches were almost entirely Nestorian.

The Assyrian Church of the East explicitly denies that it is Nestorian, IIRC. And the Coptic church isn't Nestorian.

 

[Swedishguy]

"Atheism/Agnosticism"? As if they are compatible? What the hell?

Anyways, I'm an atheist.

 

[Che Guava]

I'll register a similar complaint on behalf of agnostics: I don't wana share my option with people like Swedishguy!!!

 

[Elrohir]

The Assyrian Church of the East explicitly denies that it is Nestorian, IIRC. And the Coptic church isn't Nestorian.

They explicity deny being Nestorian, but as far as I can tell they pretty much are. But if you want to vote for them as part of a general Eastern Christian church option instead of the Nestorianism option, then that's fine.

Whatever. The polls already made, so it doesn't matter too much. (And this did make me reread the Wikipedia article on the Assyrian Church of the East, which led me to Tariq Aziz, an interesting character - the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq before the US led invasion, and a Chaldean Catholic Christian. Good stuff)

 

[aneeshm]

Hindu, and therefore committed to truth, the search for it, its tradition, and continuity.

Asking for a denomination is meaningless - truth is one.

I've learnt not to speculate on things of which I have no experience, so I won't say much about God or souls or anything. But I do know that when I try to understand exactly who "I" am, I fail, repeatedly. So that's something I have to look into.

 

[JohnRM]

John, why did you separate Nestorianism (Including the Nestorian Eastern churches) and Oriental Orthodoxy? As far as I can tell, the Oriental Christian churches were almost entirely Nestorian. (See the Nestorian stele in China, and the Christian members of Ghengi's Khan's court) Why not just have had a Nestorian option, and a Church of the East option to cover the non-Nestorian Eastern/Orientals? And are you really an animist?

I separated the two, because the website that I looked at separated them.

Well, I would say that I am a cross between an animist and a general deist, but I just don't know for sure. I do believe that we all have souls and, to a certain extent, that all objects have souls. Perhaps, not souls per say, but that we are all one organism. It is all a community of life and everything on this Earth belongs to it, including humans. This isn't just a matter of faith, but a statement of fact.

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

Give me an 'A'! Give me a 'T'! Give me an 'H'! Well, you get the point.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

You worship Athe?

 

[MobBoss]

You worship Athe?

Well, say it as if he had a lisp...then you get the picture.

 

[Perfection]

You worship Athe?

Probably Athena!

 

[Atlas14]

/Atheist14

 

[.Shane.]

Where's the button for "none of your damned business"?

 

[Mirc]

Eastern Orthodoxy.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Where's the button for "none of your damned business"?

It's called "not voting".

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

Probably Athena!

We have a winner!

 

[RedRalph]

I see a distinct difference bwtwen religion and any belief in anything non-physical. religion to me is followuing a specific code of rules, laws or morlas along with a defineable group of other people who all identify themselves as being a particular religion. I think there may well be an afterlife. I dont think there is a creator deity. I'm agnostic, but even if I did believe in some form of god/Higher intelligence/Allah/Yaweh/what fluckin ever, i wouldnt consider myself religious, because to me being religious is being part of an organisation consisting of humans who share a belief system