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What Religious/Spiritual Persuasion Are You?

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  • #32
    Glenster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭Glenster


    LZ5by5 wrote: »
    It's the internet. Nerds = atheist/agnostic. ;) :pac:

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


  • #33
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #34
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Thaedydal wrote: »
    Bah!

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


  • #35
    Wazdakka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭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.


  • #36
    m@cc@
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #37
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭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.........?


  • #38
    m@cc@
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭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.


  • #39
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭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)


  • #40
    m@cc@
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭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.


  • #41
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


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


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  • #42
    strobe
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    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.


  • #43
    Scrambled egg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 383 ✭✭Scrambled egg


    How come you left out Jedi? ;)


  • #44
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    No option for David Icke? :confused:


  • #45
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,182 ✭✭✭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.


  • #46
    aidan24326
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭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.


  • #47
    Corkfeen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭Corkfeen


    Was gonna go for atheist but sure i'll be a scientologist for the day. ;)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbGGt_HI304


  • #48
    Feeky Magee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 677 ✭✭✭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...


  • #49
    Riddle101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,669 ✭✭✭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.


  • #50
    DonalN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 868 ✭✭✭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


  • #51
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


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


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  • #52
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Agnostic, but my way of thinking is very atheist due to my dislike of organised religions.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #53
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    I am all religions. Religion is a part of human heritage so I claim ownership of all of them.


  • #54
    Tabnabs
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 16,057 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    This always makes me smile

    http://api.ning.com/files/nJ051Qngejl3NcJQ6-bffmPH-p6IwYoWbkdJpK7C8HRXDFcb*59CHBgBOK0tDx8hHS5hc6ZebbJm2fOsjNi3N3QE05QdDcRx/thor.jpeg


  • #55
    cynder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,128 ✭✭✭cynder


    I believe in god but have no religion so what am I?

    i think i would be no-religion but am not atheist.

    dont go to church never been baptised.


  • #56
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    grindelwald wrote: »
    I believe in god but have no religion so what am I?
    Cult bait.


  • #57
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    grindelwald wrote: »
    I believe in god but have no religion so what am I?

    i think i would be no-religion but am not atheist.

    dont go to church never been baptised.
    Church of the Other I'd say

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #58
    ChocolateSauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭ChocolateSauce


    Athiest who isn't prepared to rule out that Mushrooms hold the secret to everything. :pac:


  • #59
    Genghiz Cohen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    grindelwald wrote: »
    I believe in god but have no religion so what am I?

    i think i would be no-religion but am not atheist.

    dont go to church never been baptised.

    If you believe in Jesus Christ, that pretty much makes you Christian.
    If you believe in Yahweh, god of the Bible, but not Christ, that's a bit more Jewish.
    You could just be spiritual, that's pretty much a religion in itself.

    But I must ask you, why do you believe in a God at all?


  • #60
    cynder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,128 ✭✭✭cynder


    I would beleive more in yahweh, but jews believe christ never came to earth - I believe he did. i dont believe christ is god (the father the son and holy spirit) as in the father = GOD(yahweh) his son = jesus
    and gods holy spirit that is among us here down on earth (sort of an essence).

    I dont believe in use of idols (as stated in the 10 comandments)


    I could be a one man cult - or should i say a one woman cult!



    I dont like cults...... never have never will.


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  • #61
    Smart Bug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,368 ✭✭✭Smart Bug


    omahaid wrote: »
    No pastafarian?

    I am quite disappointed that this poll has yet to be touched by His Noodley Appendage.


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