Do you consider yourself religious ?

Yes I am religious, I go to mass on Sunday's and pray twice a day.

The Diabolical Monocle

Spiritual.

Very very important to separate the terms religious and spiritual.

And thats not being done.

And so the spiritual side of people's lives/personalities has been tied to certain religions in our society, and those religions aren't holding up very well at the moment it would seem.

This leads to people confusing their very essence with institutions which to be fair regularly get their asses kicked on social media by the whole dawkinite/internet nouveau atheist demographic.

Mark Tapley

creolebelle wrote: »

Yes. I believe in god. I'm not sure if my belief in god is rooted in fear or logic

Well religion and logic don't mix to well.

Tin Foil Hat

Lucas Castroman wrote: »

There are forces and powers in the universe which we do not understand. I hold these forces with great reverence and as such, I am religious.

My too. I've been known to genuflect before fridge magnets.

BunkMoreland

Whenever I'm driving past a church and all the zombies are exiting after mass, I start to consider these people inferior to me. I really look down on them, like an inferior race which should be exterminated.

CruelCoin

I absolutely am religious.

I am an ordained (yes it is actually a thing) minister of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

All praise his noodley goodness. He boiled for your sins.

RAmen

creolebelle

Mark Tapley wrote: »

Well religion and logic don't mix to well.

It's one thing to believe in god but it's another to believe in god because you fear the unknown

iusedtoknow

I move between being athiest and anti-theist depending on whether it's a catholic or a jehovah's witness I'm talking to

vicwatson

Lord PuppyMcSnuggle of Cuddleshire wrote: »

No, but I drink religiously if that counts.

Raises can of Guinness with both hands above head and mumbles a prayer.

Is that you fr Jack?

KKkitty

Too much bad stuff has happened to me to believe there's anything up there.

lubie76

No even raised as a catholic child I always questioned this big man in the Sky stuff, much like Santa claus and the tooth fairy. As I got older and saw how much pain, suffering and war religion has caused, I closed that door completely and set myself free. I now believe in just being a good person and being kind to others but not out of fear of a heaven and hell.

Joe prim

I am not religious, although i am, of course, a deeply spiritual person, and,as a deeply spiritual person, I am deeply offended at the lack of an Atari jaguar option in the poll on this thread, which is against the spirit of AH, which, as a deeply spiritual person, I value (deeply) ....oh, yeah, also, I believe everything happens for a reason......

iusedtoknow

CruelCoin wrote: »

I absolutely am religious.

I am an ordained (yes it is actually a thing) minister of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

All praise his noodley goodness. He boiled for your sins.

RAmen

Our pasta, who art in a colander, draining be your noodles. Thy noodle come, Thy sauce be yum, on top some grated Parmesan. Give us this day our garlic bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trample on our lawns. And lead us not into vegetarianism, but deliver us some pizza, for thine is the meatball, the noodle, and the sauce, forever and ever. RAmen

BlaasForRafa

Lucas Castroman wrote: »

There are forces and powers in the universe which we do not understand. I hold these forces with great reverence and as such, I am religious.

Where there are things that are not understood I prefer not to fill up the gaps with god. Humans come up with the answers to all kinds of mysteries every year, the "god of the gaps" gets made more redundant all the time.

creolebelle

iusedtoknow wrote: »

Our pasta, who art in a colander, draining be your noodles. Thy noodle come, Thy sauce be yum, on top some grated Parmesan. Give us this day our garlic bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trample on our lawns. And lead us not into vegetarianism, but deliver us some pizza, for thine is the meatball, the noodle, and the sauce, forever and ever. RAmen

You win

osarusan

No.

kowloon

CruelCoin wrote: »

I absolutely am religious.

I am an ordained (yes it is actually a thing) minister of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

All praise his noodley goodness. He boiled for your sins.

RAmen

I too am touched by his noodly appendage.

TPD

Nope.

Cen taurus

I'm a Catholic. I don't label myself religious. I'm not big into labels, or categorising and pigeon-holing people, as this is a very inaccurate guide to anything. People are a lot more complex than that.

Antar Bolaeisk

I'm not religious at all, I wouldn't even brand myself as an atheist as I feel that's almost become a religious term in and of itself, something religious people use to make sense of the non-believers.

davwain

Lord PuppyMcSnuggle of Cuddleshire wrote: »

No, but I drink religiously if that counts.

Raises can of Guinness with both hands above head and mumbles a prayer.

My favourite drink, if I'm out at a pub, is a Stoli and Coke (Smirnoff, if Stoli isn't available). Like many people of East Slavic descent, I like to drink vodka.

And I don't consider myself otherwise religious.

Pherekydes

Full on atheist. So are my kids.

The wife's a nagnostic.

Saipanne

I'm agnostic.

It's not that I say "i don't know".

It's that I say "we cannot know".


Militant agnostic?

5uspect

Cen taurus wrote: »

I'm a Catholic. I don't label myself religious. I'm not big into labels, or categorising and pigeon-holing people, as this is a very inaccurate guide to anything. People are a lot more complex than that.

You're aware that Catholic is the more specific pigeon holed label here?
As a Catholic do you follow all the required dogmas?

MRnotlob606

I am and would not deny it either.

Mesrine65

I was raised non-religious & have no thoughts or beliefs on the subject.

Religion is a non-entity to me, but I respect the right of others to worship as they see fit as long as they're not imposing it upon me.

The_Valeyard

Saipanne wrote: »

I'm agnostic.

It's not that I say "i don't know".

It's that I say "we cannot know".


Militant agnostic?

CruelCoin

iusedtoknow wrote: »

Our pasta, who art in a colander, draining be your noodles. Thy noodle come, Thy sauce be yum, on top some grated Parmesan. Give us this day our garlic bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trample on our lawns. And lead us not into vegetarianism, but deliver us some pizza, for thine is the meatball, the noodle, and the sauce, forever and ever. RAmen

You know our prayer!

You are surely destined to go to heaven and frolick in the beery rain spewed forth from the beer volcanoe, whilst buxom wenches freshly minted from the stripper factory hang on your every move.

(You did of course say the prayer in a pirate accent, didn't you?)

Lenin Skynard

I like spaghetti but I don't believe it created the universe.

CruelCoin

Lenin Skynard wrote: »

I like spaghetti but I don't believe it created the universe.

And that's perfectly ok. But note that unlike pretty much every other religion in history, we won't kill/maim you for your blasphemy.