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Do you consider yourself religious ?

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  • 06-03-2015 11:20pm
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    shane7218
    Registered Users Posts: 251 ✭✭


    I find it interesting when having a conversation with people and the topic of religion comes up. A lot of people will say they are catholic but when you ask them do they pray or really believe in it they say no.


    Personally I'm an atheist but I respect people's rights to believe whatever they want, however when religion starts to interfere with public life and effects policy I have a serious problem and unfortunately this is a big problem in Ireland.

    So to everyone in AH, are you religious ?

    Do you consider yourself religious ? 165 votes

    Yes
    0% 0 votes
    I see myself as belonging to a particular religion but not religious
    17% 29 votes
    No
    10% 17 votes
    Richard Dawkins
    72% 119 votes


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    #2
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Eh, it's no bowl of Special K


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    Lord PuppyMcSnuggle of Cuddleshire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭Lord PuppyMcSnuggle of Cuddleshire


    No, but I drink religiously if that counts.

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


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    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    More religious than the Pope herself


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    #5
    dodderangler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Kinda but I know that everyone at some stage in a day says god or Jesus or
    Something along them lines.
    Surely that's part of religion.


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    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    I wouldn't knock religion or anybody who believes in it.

    I gives comfort to a lot of people.

    Personally, I'd be more spiritual than religious. I'd like there's something out there, if you know what I mean.


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    dogcat
    Registered Users Posts: 835 ✭✭✭dogcat


    I myself am an atheist, although baptised Catholic (unfortunately in my opinion).


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    Golaco
    Registered Users Posts: 71 ✭✭Golaco


    shane7218 wrote: »
    Personally I'm an atheist but I respect people's rights to believe whatever they want, however when religion starts to interfere with public life and effects policy I have a serious problem and unfortunately this is a big problem in Ireland.

    Completely agree. People can believe in whatever deity or deities they want. However their chosen deity shouldn't define them or dictate their life. Should be kinda like their favorite sports team


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    Zippie84
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭Zippie84


    Nope, had it drilled into me as a child in Catholic Ireland, but thankfully been in a position to form my own opinions since.

    I can understand people either believing or not believing, being either religious or non-religious, but what I can't understand is the many people who believe simply cos it's what they were told is the truth and the way of live since they were a sprog, just cos, you know.. that's the way it is, and have never taken the time to question things and make up their own mind either way.


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    #10
    Agricola
    Registered Users Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    I don't believe in God, go to Mass, pray, or any of that craic. But Im still a Catholic a course.


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    #11
    eviltwin
    Registered Users Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    No. I was raised in a religion but never felt any connection to it. I'm happier marching to the beat of my own drum.


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    Señor Fancy Pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,628 ✭✭✭Señor Fancy Pants


    Jesus Christ no!


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    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    shane7218 wrote: »
    I find it interesting when having a conversation with people and the topic of religion comes up. A lot of people will say they are catholic but when you ask them do they pray or really believe in it they say no.


    Personally I'm an atheist but I respect people's rights to believe whatever they want, however when religion starts to interfere with public life and effects policy I have a serious problem and unfortunately this is a big problem in Ireland.

    So to everyone in AH, are you religious ?

    Ehhhhh...


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    SoftMicro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 224 ✭✭SoftMicro


    Hell no


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    Zippie84
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭Zippie84


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Ehhhhh...

    Ehhh.....




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    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    Still.......There's no such thing as a non-believer on a sinking ship.

    The Rosary beads come out quick smart then!


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    shane7218
    Registered Users Posts: 251 ✭✭shane7218


    Filmer Paradise wrote: »
    Still.......There's no such thing as a non-believer on a sinking ship.

    The Rosary beads come out quick smart then!

    I would be looking for a lifeboat, not rosary beads :D


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    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    shane7218 wrote: »
    I would be looking for a lifeboat, not rosary beads :D

    Remember the Titanic!;)


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    K4t
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,362 ✭✭✭K4t


    Filmer Paradise wrote: »
    Still.......There's no such thing as a non-believer on a sinking ship.
    Yes, there is. And they weren't really believers in the first place if they only choose to believe when it suits them. They are the weakest of the weak.


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    snowstorm445
    Registered Users Posts: 932 ✭✭✭snowstorm445


    I generally don't see myself as religious, but I do not regard myself as a militant atheist either.

    I was raised as a Catholic and that has had an enormous effect on my life and my character. Despite not adhering to the Church anymore I have no problem admitting that.

    I am open to the idea that there are greater levels of reality that current science is unaware of in relation to the Universe and its creation, but projecting a humanised, familiar understanding onto something clearly beyond our scope seems childish. I don't intend on dictating what others should believe, but I see little to be gained in practicing rituals idolising/devoted to whatever was responsible for the creation of the Universe. It all seems very primitive.


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    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I don't consider myself to be anything.

    If people, religious and non religious, spent less time spewing and blethering about what they consider themselves to be and more time getting up off their arses and contributing something to the universe, I'd be a happy man. :)


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    #22
    hynesie08
    Registered Users Posts: 9,708 ✭✭✭hynesie08


    Full on agnostic, i believe there's something more than we can logically explain, I have no issue with people having faith but organised religion and especially the "one true faith" stuff pisses me off, no one should have a right to tell anyone else how to live their life.


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    Golaco
    Registered Users Posts: 71 ✭✭Golaco


    Filmer Paradise wrote: »
    Still.......There's no such thing as a non-believer on a sinking ship.

    The Rosary beads come out quick smart then!

    If I ever find myself at the pearly gates it will be very awkward indeed. I'll have a lot of backtracking to do!


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    Vincent Vega
    Registered Users Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭Vincent Vega


    I wouldn't call myself religious, but would definitely say I am somewhat spiritual. Shame the poll doesn't have that option :(


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    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    I religiously avoid mass.


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    #26
    Mark Tapley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭Mark Tapley


    Vincent Vega wrote: »
    I wouldn't call myself religious, but would definitely say I am somewhat spiritual. Shame the poll doesn't have that option :(

    OP could change the poll to Religious/Other mumbo jumbo.


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    #27
    Lucas Castroman
    Registered Users Posts: 241 ✭✭Lucas Castroman


    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.


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    #28
    shane7218
    Registered Users Posts: 251 ✭✭shane7218


    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.

    So you think that because we cant yet explain everything, the answer is within a book written 1000's of years ago ?


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    #29
    Mr_Muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 917 ✭✭✭Mr_Muffin


    No i don't consider myself religious.

    I just think we are at a very early stage of humanity. Give it another few thousand/million years and we will know a lot more about the universe. If there really is a heaven then we will so advanced we will be able to visit it whenever we want.

    I think life loses it's magic when religion comes into it - i don't want to know what happens when i die.


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    #30
    creolebelle
    Registered Users Posts: 440 ✭✭creolebelle


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


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    #31
    Mark Tapley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭Mark Tapley


    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.

    So you worship what you don't understand? That poll does need a mumbo jumbo option.


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