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What religion do you have?

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    #92
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Dudess wrote: »

    I'd still go to church weddings and christenings though - it's their day, not mine. Can't see how that's hypocritical.

    It's not, we all do things for other people even when we don't want to or believe in it, it's keeping the peace sometimes. No harm in it.


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    #93
    tfitzgerald
    Registered Users Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭tfitzgerald


    Roman Catholic . I still go to Mass. But at the moment I am having doubts in my faith that are troubling me


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    #94
    Tigger
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    Pagan tradition .
    It wasnt on the cencus And it wasn't on the ops poll. But it's the religion of this country before the Arab god came here and it's being recognised more and more in legality


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    #95
    djk1000
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    Big shout out to my fellow buddhists! Not to be pedantic, but buddhism isn't a religion. I don't believe in or worship a god or consider myself a member of any religion. Just trying to live a better life.


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    #96
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    I believe in Harvey Dent!


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    #97
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,106 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Agnostic, but if gun to my head I was to come up with a "faith" of a divine nature? I'd call myself a universal pantheist. For me if a "god" exists it's the universe itself. It came from an eternal nothing, indeed by it's birth gave rise to the very notion of eternity itself. It also gave rise to complexity and has all the information of universal existence at it's disposal. The contention that any god is a remote one never squared with me. Why shouldn't it feel the death of a star as much as a sparrow? Or you? The latter is more complex in it's information than any star. The universe would "know" the tiniest change as part of itself. I would extend the Gaia principle to the universe on that score.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    #98
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,707 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Agnostic, but if gun to my head I was to come up with a "faith" of a divine nature? I'd call myself a universal pantheist. For me if a "god" exists it's the universe itself. It came from an eternal nothing, indeed by it's birth gave rise to the very notion of eternity itself. It also gave rise to complexity and has all the information of universal existence at it's disposal. The contention that any god is a remote one never squared with me. Why shouldn't it feel the death of a star as much as a sparrow? Or you? The latter is more complex in it's information than any star. The universe would "know" the tiniest change as part of itself. I would extend the Gaia principle to the universe on that score.


    So thats three for Pagan


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    #99
    Toby Take a Bow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Toby Take a Bow


    Tigger wrote: »
    Pagan tradition .
    It wasnt on the cencus And it wasn't on the ops poll. But it's the religion of this country before the Arab god came here and it's being recognised more and more in legality

    Arab god?:confused:

    Also, there's no connect between the 'pagan' tradition of today and the one that was practiced before. How are you practicing that religion, exactly?


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    #100
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    MisterEpicurus wrote: »
    ChunkyLover_53 wrote: »
    Oh, do you go to Atheist Church too?

    It's not called a church, atheists don't appear to have bad memories such that our beliefs need constant reinforcement every Sunday. ;)

    Seems like they need constant reinforcement on boards.


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    #101
    Tigger
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    Toby Take a Bow wrote: »
    Arab god?:confused:

    Also, there's no connect between the 'pagan' tradition of today and the one that was practiced before. How are you practicing that religion, exactly?

    would semite god or desert god suit yer tastes better?


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    #102
    Toby Take a Bow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Toby Take a Bow


    Tigger wrote: »
    would semite god or desert god suit yer tastes better?

    Semite, probably. Arab's just incorrect. Desert maybe not so much: I don't think the whole area of Palestine back then was proper desert.


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    #103
    qrrgprgua
    Registered Users Posts: 786 ✭✭✭qrrgprgua


    lastest published statistics show 84% of Population is Catholic.


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    #104
    shizz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭shizz


    I think it should be changed to practising catholic or whatever religion you are. I know a lot of people who are definitely not practising but would consider it a label for themselves.


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    #105
    corktina
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    100% Atheist.
    However I'm happy for you all to do or believe what you want.


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    #106
    Run_to_da_hills
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    qrrgprgua wrote: »
    lastest published statistics show 84% of Population is Catholic.
    On paper.


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    #107
    Helix
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    if you're not practicing, don't follow your religion, and don't really believe it, then picking anything other than no religion in the census makes you an absolute idiot


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    #108
    Run_to_da_hills
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    Religion is the worst thing that has ever happened to this world, Countless Billions of souls have been damned to Hell by false religion.


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    #109
    shizz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭shizz


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    Religion is the worst thing that has ever happened to this world, Countless Billions of souls have been damned to Hell by false religion.

    This post started off so promising...


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    #110
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    shizz wrote: »
    This post started off so promising...
    :p


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    #111
    shizz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭shizz


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    Religion is the worst thing that has ever happened to this world, Countless of Billions of people have died or been killed in direct connection to a religious belief.

    Thought I'd fix it for you.


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    #112
    amacachi
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    Born to Die wrote: »
    Religion causes enough problems without being resurrected in AH over and over and over and over again..

    The Christians started the Resurrections War in fairness.


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    #113
    Cork boy 55
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Cork boy 55


    I pray to Crom... but I seldom pray to him, he doesn't listen.
    He is strong! If I die, I have to go before him, and he will ask me, "What is the riddle of steel?" If I don't know it, he will cast me out of Valhalla and laugh at me. That's Crom, strong on his mountain!
    Crom laughs at your "Gods". He laughs from his mountain.


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    #114
    Zebra3
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    qrrgprgua wrote: »
    lastest published statistics show 84% of Population is Catholic.

    Ah, the just in case brigade. :rolleyes:

    You can imagine them all signing up to pay the household tax atm....


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    #115
    John Doe1
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    I'm quantum presbyterian:)


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    #116
    Wereghost
    Registered Users Posts: 324 ✭✭Wereghost


    im invisible wrote: »
    atheism and agnosticism are not the same...

    *sits back, gets popcorn
    Heh. Maybe every choice should have had both Gnostic and Agnostic versions.


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    #117
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    John Doe1 wrote: »
    I'm quantum presbyterian:)
    Hey Brethren.


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    #118
    Morag
    Registered Users Posts: 8,423 ✭✭✭Morag


    Cork boy 55 wrote: »
    I pray to Crom... but I seldom pray to him, he doesn't listen.
    He is strong! If I die, I have to go before him, and he will ask me, "What is the riddle of steel?" If I don't know it, he will cast me out of Valhalla and laugh at me. That's Crom, strong on his mountain!
    Crom laughs at your "Gods". He laughs from his mountain.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBGOQ7SsJrw


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    #119
    Ahada
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭Ahada


    Hi all...I was wondering (since I'm not from Ireland) if people here even care what religion you believe in? We don't participate in Christmas or Easter and our neighbors seemed to think it was horrible that we did not....


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    #120
    Seachmall
    Registered Users Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    Ahada wrote: »
    Hi all...I was wondering (since I'm not from Ireland) if people here even care what religion you believe in? We don't participate in Christmas or Easter and our neighbors seemed to think it was horrible that we did not....

    As long as you're Catholic nobody cares what religion you are.


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    #121
    rusty_racer94
    Registered Users Posts: 866 ✭✭✭rusty_racer94


    I'm the minority in the poll.


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