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What Religious/Spiritual Persuasion Are You?

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  • 24-02-2010 11:04am
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    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭


    So with the recent outbreak of religiously themed threads in after hours I thought I would throw up the obligatory video poll. So, what's your soul poison? Which option most closely describes your religious leaning.

    Edit: Before someone complains about the options, I just threw them up off the top of my head, so Pagans, Hindus ect, no offense was meant.
    Post Edit: Actually if a mod could possibly add Hindu and Pagan it would be appreciated as they're two of the more common ones missing from the list. Thanks.

    Religious/spiritual presuasion? 310 votes

    Christian (Catholic)
    0% 0 votes
    Christian (Protestant)
    13% 42 votes
    Christian (Other)
    2% 8 votes
    Islam
    3% 11 votes
    Buddhism
    0% 3 votes
    Secular/Non-Religious/Atheist/Agnostic
    1% 4 votes
    Spiritism
    68% 211 votes
    Judaism
    0% 0 votes
    Scientology
    0% 0 votes
    Other
    2% 8 votes
    Hindu
    7% 22 votes
    Pagan
    0% 1 vote


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    #2
    Prof.Badass
    Registered Users Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Prof.Badass


    Rational thinking does not allow me to have any steadfast religious/spiritual beliefs. To get me to act like something is 100% true you'll need evidence. Personal inclinations do not count as evidence as these can be wrong.....a lot.

    To be controversial, I don't see much difference in believing that you can talk to god and believing that the CIA are after you. One just happens to be socially encouraged while the other is not.


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    #3
    Oneironaut
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41 ✭Oneironaut


    Bi-secular.


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    #4
    2qk4u
    Registered Users Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭2qk4u


    Its all fairy tales to me.


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    #5
    Stercus Accidit
    Registered Users Posts: 8,758 ✭✭✭Stercus Accidit


    http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/4/45270/1253930-this_thread_again_super.jpg


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    #6
    rgt320q
    Registered Users Posts: 573 ✭✭✭rgt320q


    You forgot the oldest one of all: Jedi.


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    #7
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Not a fan of religion, any religion. I think people should live by their conscience, not some set of rules from a fairy tale. I don't need a god to tell me not to be an asshole, that's what the missus is for!


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    #8
    peepeep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 150 ✭✭peepeep


    Why are 'atheist' and 'agnostic' thrown together in the poll? They are completely different.


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    #9
    bullpost
    Registered Users Posts: 4,226 ✭✭✭bullpost


    Wheres the man utd. option - they've got the best attendances, choirs, hymns etc.


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    djk1000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 899 ✭✭✭djk1000


    What about Humanist? Growing movement in Ireland


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    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    peepeep wrote: »
    Why are 'atheist' and 'agnostic' thrown together in the poll? They are completely different.
    They're not really. Agnostic is closer to atheist than it is to catholic.

    An agnostic has sometimes been described as someone who is undecided on the matter, but in reality an agnostic is someone who accepts that the existence of a God or Gods is inherently unknowable so don't draw a conclusion on the matter.

    Atheists accept that the existence of Gods is inherently unknowable, but consider it such an extreme outside possibility that it's negligible and not really worthy of consideration.

    In terms of religious persuasion, it's fair to lump agnostic and atheist in the same definition because neither have any religious persuasion.


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    #12
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    No gods for me thanks


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    #13
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Hindu/Pagan added per request


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    #14
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Bah!

    Could a mod kindly please remove my vote as Other and change it to pagan please.


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    #15
    Handsome Bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,905 ✭✭✭✭Handsome Bob


    Scientology for me.


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    #16
    Lockstep
    Registered Users Posts: 9,029 ✭✭✭Lockstep


    Catholic.


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    #17
    Delirium
    Moderators Posts: 51,738 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Nuwaubianism for me.:D

    List of some of the beliefs.

    1. It is important to bury the afterbirth so that Satan does not use it to make a duplicate of the recently-born child

    2. Furthermore, some aborted fetuses survive their abortion to live in the sewers, where they are being gathered and organized to take over the world

    3. People were once perfectly symmetrical and ambidextrous, but then a meteorite struck Earth and tilted its axis causing handedness and shifting the heart off-center in the chest

    4. Each of us has seven clones living in different parts of the world

    5. Women existed for many generations before they invented men through genetic manipulation

    6. Homo sapiens is the result of cloning experiments that were done on Mars using Homo erectus

    7. Nikola Tesla came from the planet Venus

    8. The Illuminati have nurtured a child, Satan’s son, who was born on 6 June 1966 at the Dakota House on 72nd Street in New York to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis of the Rothschild/Kennedy families. The Pope was present at the birth and performed necromantic ceremonies. The child was raised by former U.S. president Richard Nixon and now lives in Belgium, where it is hooked up bodily to a computer called “The Beast 3M” or “3666.”

    If you can read this, you're too close!



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    #18
    Lockstep
    Registered Users Posts: 9,029 ✭✭✭Lockstep


    I am friends with everyone from hardcore atheist to islam.

    But Scientology makes me deeply uneasy. Bigot that I am.


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    #19
    Handsome Bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,905 ✭✭✭✭Handsome Bob


    LZ5by5 wrote: »
    Scientology for me.
    kickoutthejams wrote: »
    I am friends with everyone from hardcore atheist to islam.

    But Scientology makes me deeply uneasy. Bigot that I am.

    Oi. :mad: :pac:


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    #20
    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    I believe in me. I figure if I'm going to have faith in something, it might as well be myself. Sometimes I doubt my faith though.


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    #21
    Davidius
    Registered Users Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    Karl Hungus wrote: »
    I believe in me. I figure if I'm going to have faith in something, it might as well be myself. Something I doubt my faith though.
    Yeah I'm beginning to lose my faith in you myself. There's simply no solid evidence to suggest that you exist.[/because somebody was going to say it]

    I probably qualify as agnostic. I simply don't and can't know.


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    #22
    DazMarz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


    Very much an atheist and a virulent anti-organised religion kind of guy...


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    emeraldstar
    Registered Users Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    Well, raised Catholic, but I would say none really.


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    thetonynator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


    very surprising the number that ticked atheist etc . . . .


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    Handsome Bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,905 ✭✭✭✭Handsome Bob


    thetonynator wrote: »
    very surprising the number that ticked atheist etc . . . .

    It's the internet. Nerds = atheist/agnostic. ;) :pac:


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    toiletduck
    Registered Users Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭toiletduck


    thetonynator wrote: »
    very surprising the number that ticked atheist etc . . . .

    Not really, it's the usual result whenever a poll like this is done on AH.


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    #27
    PeterIanStaker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭PeterIanStaker


    atheist for me


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    #28
    moonpurple
    Closed Accounts Posts: 852 ✭✭✭moonpurple


    Christian other, previously dreary Catholic Christian, now positive European Christian

    Jedd Bartlett, West Wing, HBO, 'our faith in God prompts us to face each of life's challenges and not use God as an excuse to avoid these difficult challenges.'

    St. Paul: 'Trust In God's love and have no fear..'


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    #29
    omahaid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭omahaid


    No pastafarian?


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    #30
    m@cc@
    Registered Users Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    seamus wrote: »
    They're not really. Agnostic is closer to atheist than it is to catholic.

    Are we using Catholicism as the yardstick by which all other beliefs are measured? Who gives a crap what agnostic is close to? In term of atheism, one has a belief that a 'god' exists, one doesn't. That's a pretty fundamental difference in beliefs, in fact one would go as far to say as one of the main things that define a belief system.


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    Thomas828
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭Thomas828


    Christian Catholic. I have read up on Buddhism, Judaism and Paganism and wondered if I could abide by any of those religions. But in the end I settled back into the one I grew up with. -- By the way, I was a nihilist for a while but I lost all faith in it.


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