What Religious/Spiritual Persuasion Are You?

strobe

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.

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.

Oneironaut

Bi-secular.

2qk4u

Its all fairy tales to me.

Stercus Accidit

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

rgt320q

You forgot the oldest one of all: Jedi.

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!

peepeep

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

bullpost

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

djk1000

What about Humanist? Growing movement in Ireland

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.

Dave!

No gods for me thanks

biko

Hindu/Pagan added per request

Nevyn

Bah!

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

Handsome Bob

Scientology for me.

Lockstep

Catholic.

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.”

Lockstep

I am friends with everyone from hardcore atheist to islam.

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

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:

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.

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.

DazMarz

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

emeraldstar

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

thetonynator

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

Handsome Bob

thetonynator wrote: »

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

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

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.

PeterIanStaker

atheist for me

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..'

omahaid

No pastafarian?

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.

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.

Glenster

LZ5by5 wrote: »

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

So heartlessly matter-of-fact. I love it.

seamus

m@cc@ wrote: »

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.

Agnostics don't believe that a God exists.

biko

Thaedydal wrote: »

Bah!

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

Done

Wazdakka

Religion is dying in this country..
Plain and simple..

About bloody time people move on from superstition to science.

The problem now is that some of our national laws are still based around these ramblings about somebody's imaginary friend.

m@cc@

seamus wrote: »

Agnostics don't believe that a God exists.

Sorry, they are open to the idea that a God exists but it's futile to discover if one does exist. Down the middle if you ask me and clearly different from someone who outright say that there is no God.

strobe

m@cc@ wrote: »

Sorry, they are open to the idea that a God exists but it's futile to discover if one does exist. Down the middle if you ask me and clearly different from someone who outright say that there is no God.

But that means they don't believe in a god.........?

m@cc@

strobe wrote: »

But that means they don't believe in a god.........?

No it doesn't, it means it's beyond the human comprehension to know if one exists or not.

strobe

m@cc@ wrote: »

No it doesn't, it means it's beyond the human comprehension to know if one exists or not.

Of course it is.......which is why they don't hold a belief in a god?


(This will never end. For the purpose of the poll, I can't see any reason why it wouldn't be placed alongside non-religious or atheist. Let's just agree to disagree)

m@cc@

strobe wrote: »

Of course it is.......which is why they don't hold a belief in a god?

If you want to go down that road, and be glib about it, then Scientology should be bracketed in with them too.

Dravokivich

None of the above... All of the below...

strobe

m@cc@ wrote: »

If you want to go down that road, and be glib about it, then Scientology should be bracketed in with them too.

I don't wish to be glib or go down that road which is why I said let's agree to disagree.

Scrambled egg

How come you left out Jedi?

stovelid

No option for David Icke?

dvpower

m@cc@ wrote: »

Sorry, they are open to the idea that a God exists but it's futile to discover if one does exist. Down the middle if you ask me and clearly different from someone who outright say that there is no God.

I don't think many atheists outright say that there is no God. More likely that there is no good evidence for the existence of God.

But if God were to turn up on the Late Late next Friday and conclusively demonstrate His existence, then atheists would accept the new evidence and leave their atheism behind.

aidan24326

dvpower wrote: »

But if God were to turn up on the Late Late next Friday and conclusively demonstrate His existence, then atheists would accept the new evidence and leave their atheism behind.

That is true. Still no guarantee we'd want to worship him though.

Corkfeen

Was gonna go for atheist but sure i'll be a scientologist for the day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbGGt_HI304

Feeky Magee

Results of polls like this make a mockery of the official statistic of 4-5% atheists in Ireland. People need to start putting it down on the Census...

Riddle101

I'm born Catholic but have become more of just a believer in God in recent years. While I'm still considered a Catholic, I've become somewhat disilustioned by Catholism, due to it's old fashioned views and with all this child abuse stuff as well as other things i'm annoyed with, I find myself not wanting to belong to any one religon but to be just a believer in god.

DonalN

This works for me.

'When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That is my religion' - Abraham Lincoln

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

None, they are all a joke/scam...