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Do you consider yourself religious ?

  • 06-03-2015 10:20pm
    #1
    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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Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Eh, it's no bowl of Special K


  • 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.


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


    More religious than the Pope herself


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 835 ✭✭✭dogcat


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


  • 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


  • 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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,628 ✭✭✭Señor Fancy Pants


    Jesus Christ no!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭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...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 224 ✭✭SoftMicro


    Hell no


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


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Ehhhhh...

    Ehhh.....




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


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

    The Rosary beads come out quick smart then!


  • Registered Users Posts: 251 ✭✭shane7218


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


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

    Remember the Titanic!;)


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


    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.


  • 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.


  • 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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,909 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 71 ✭✭Golaco


    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!


  • 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 :(


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


    I religiously avoid mass.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭Mark Tapley


    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.


  • 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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 251 ✭✭shane7218


    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 ?


  • 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.


  • 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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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭Mark Tapley


    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.


  • Posts: 24,714 [Deleted User]


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


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭Mark Tapley


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,664 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat


    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.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 820 ✭✭✭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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users Posts: 440 ✭✭creolebelle


    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    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?


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,152 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 919 ✭✭✭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......


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭BlaasForRafa


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 440 ✭✭creolebelle


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    No.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,556 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,814 ✭✭✭TPD


    Nope.


  • Registered Users Posts: 476 ✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭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.


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