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What box are you going to tick for religion in the census?

Tim Robbins · 2011-03-17 11:49:11

I am putting this poll here instead of the religious forums in the effort to attract a broader sweep of people. I got some feedback on this before posting: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056209889 The effort is to see roughly how many non practising Catholics will tick the Catholic box in the census? By…

17-03-2011 12:49PM

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I am putting this poll here instead of the religious forums in the effort to attract a broader sweep of people. I got some feedback on this before posting: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056209889

The effort is to see roughly how many non practising Catholics will tick the Catholic box in the census?

By non practising I mean:
1. You don't go mass
2. You think sex before marriage is ok.
3. You don't say the Rosary.
4. You don't believe in things like the Resurrection
5. You don't go to confession
6. You don't believe communion is actually the Body of Jesus
7. You wouldn't bother you if you didn't get some ash on your forehead for ash Wednesday.

But you might
1. Get marriage in a church
2. Go to mass at Christmas
3. Get your kids baptised or send them to a catholic school

Which box will you tick in the census for Religion? 1028 votes

Catholic - because I am a practising Catholic

0%

Catholic - even though I am not practising

8%

88 votes

No Religion - because I am atheist / agnostic

16%

167 votes

No Religion - I have spiritual believes but don't see what religion box I can tick!

61%

634 votes

Another religion - because I pracise it. Please state!

9%

93 votes

Another religion - I don't practise it but I still feel associated with it. Please state!

2%

25 votes

something else - please state!

2%

21 votes

Tagged:

you're ma's box

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#2 17-03-2011 12:51PM

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No Religion - I have spiritual believes but don't see what religion box I can tick!

Tim Robbins wrote: »

But you might

3. Send them to a catholic school

90% of schools are still catholic, I might have to send my kid to a catholic school. Shudder.

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#3 17-03-2011 12:52PM

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Another religion - I don't practise it but I still feel associated with it. Please state!
How many of these threads do we need?

People will tick the box that they want to tick. That's the end of it. Stop trying to dictate to people what they should and should not do.

If a Catholic wants to call themselves Atheist or an Atheist wants to call themselves Catholic then that's their own prerogative. We don't need a million threads reminding people not to tick the box beside Catholic.

For the record, I won't be ticking the box beside Catholic.

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#4 17-03-2011 12:54PM

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Where is the poll?

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#5 17-03-2011 12:54PM

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Heavy Metal

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#6 17-03-2011 12:55PM

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No Religion - I have spiritual believes but don't see what religion box I can tick!
I'm going to close my eyes and jab at the census form. So I may be a black, Islamic, fluent Irish speaker with 18 kids, or I may be a retarded person with a load of pen marks all over the page. We'll see.

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#7 17-03-2011 12:57PM

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No Religion - I have spiritual believes but don't see what religion box I can tick!
No Religion.

My Beer Glass collection site 🍺
My Irish Callcards site

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#8 17-03-2011 12:57PM

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Another religion - because I pracise it. Please state!
Rastafarian obv

Let's all get baked and read the bible backwards.

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#9 17-03-2011 01:02PM

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Another religion - I don't practise it but I still feel associated with it. Please state!
I'm going to put down my current denomination of Christianity: CofI

I think people should be honest on the census first and foremost. I'm not expecting there to be a tidal wave of change, I would expect Catholicism at worst to be in the 70% region.

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#10 17-03-2011 01:03PM

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True Lad.

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#11 17-03-2011 01:04PM

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something else - please state!
jedi

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#12 17-03-2011 01:06PM

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No Religion - I have spiritual believes but don't see what religion box I can tick!
Church of sex and chocolate

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#13 17-03-2011 01:06PM

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As Ronnie Barker would say a practicising Catholic is one that hasnt got it right yet.

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#14 17-03-2011 01:07PM

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No Religion - because I am atheist / agnostic
I'm a lapsed catholic so to speak, so Catholic.

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#15 17-03-2011 01:08PM

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I'm a member of the MYOB sect.

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#16 17-03-2011 01:13PM

gcgirl

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No Religion - I have spiritual believes but don't see what religion box I can tick!
Where's the al la cart catholic box
Seriously should be on the censes

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#17 17-03-2011 01:18PM

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something else - please state!

I'm writting Fianna Fail are quears at every given opportunity. Then I'm gonna blast the form with piss before I hand it too the census official.

On a serious note......... CACI can fuhken bite my ass if they thing they're gonna make a fuhken cent out of me. They can fuhk right fuhken off.

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#18 17-03-2011 01:18PM

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Another religion - I don't practise it but I still feel associated with it. Please state!
gcgirl: That's what the option "Lapsed Roman Catholic" was for last time I think. At least it was registered in the last CSO statistics. I wonder if it will be on it this time?

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#19 17-03-2011 01:26PM

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No Religion - I have spiritual believes but don't see what religion box I can tick!

squod wrote: »

On a serious note......... CACI can fuhken bite my ass if they thing they're gonna make a fuhken cent out of me. They can fuhk right fuhken off.

They've been paid already.. Just think, you're money could some day go towards paying the legal fees of people accused of torture!

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#20 17-03-2011 01:29PM

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No Religion - I have spiritual believes but don't see what religion box I can tick!
No religion or pastafarian

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#21 17-03-2011 01:29PM

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gcgirl wrote: »

Where's the al la cart catholic box
Seriously should be on the censes

Yes and No. For all other religions you don't need the a la carte option.
It's Catholicism that tends to yield most of this behaviour.

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#22 17-03-2011 01:31PM

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No Religion - I have spiritual believes but don't see what religion box I can tick!
anyone who wants to tick Jedi should just put down No Religion, it'll do more good.

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#23 17-03-2011 01:32PM

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Same as I put down last time - Bible believing Christian.

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#24 17-03-2011 01:34PM

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Another religion - I don't practise it but I still feel associated with it. Please state!

Tim Robbins wrote: »

Yes and No. For all other religions you don't need the a la carte option.
It's Catholicism that tends to yield most of this behaviour.

From experience I'd probably argue that mainline Protestants can be about as nominal, perhaps even more so.

Edit: It seems to be through a personal understanding of who God is that makes people become active in that such an encounter is life-changing.

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#25 17-03-2011 01:36PM

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Jakkass wrote: »

From experience I'd probably argue that mainline Protestants can be about as nominal, perhaps even more so.

most catholics in this country have closer to protestant beliefs anyway just wont admit to it

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#26 17-03-2011 01:36PM

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Jakkass wrote: »

From experience I'd probably argue that mainline Protestants can be about as nominal, perhaps even more so.

Well you'd know better.

What I was thinking was the Protestant Churches don't make as many demands on you so it was actually harder to be a non practising Protestant.
Or in the more extreme versions (the bible belt in the US or Northern Ireland) they all buy into it and it was hard to find much deviation.

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#27 17-03-2011 01:39PM

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I hope people realise that if you fill in something like Jedi Knight or Pastafarian you just get counted as No Religion anyway.

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#28 17-03-2011 01:42PM

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krudler wrote: »

most catholics in this country have closer to protestant beliefs anyway just wont admit to it

This makes the assumption that all Protestants have liberal beliefs. A lot of people seem to think this.

I would argue that a sizeable proportion in Ireland do.

I guess if you squared up some of my beliefs with what the RCC would put forward some of them would differ such as having no objection the use of contraceptives in and of itself, communion being a symbolic presentation of the last supper etc, more emphasis on a personal relationship with Jesus rather than ritual, others would overlap with the RCC such as marriage being the correct context for sexual activity. Other more liberal Protestants would disagree on a number of these things.

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#29 17-03-2011 01:42PM

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Catholic - even though I am not practising

squod wrote: »

I'm writting Fianna Fail are quears at every given opportunity. Then I'm gonna blast the form with piss before I hand it too the census official.

On a serious note......... CACI can fuhken bite my ass if they thing they're gonna make a fuhken cent out of me. They can fuhk right fuhken off.

I wonder what you will put down for, How good is your english?

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#30 17-03-2011 01:42PM

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I'd tick the 'Agnostic' box, but definitely not the 'Atheist' box, so where does that leave me with this poll?

There's as much difference between my beliefs and the certain beliefs of an atheist as there is between my beliefs and the certain beliefs of a practising Catholic/Christian. That's sort of the point in being an agnostic!

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#31 17-03-2011 01:50PM

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Oh, great, not only is it another census thread but it has religion included for a double whammy.

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