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 Replies: 31 — Last Post Feb. 24 2:30pm by fenrir
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| I have a religion founded on the belief of a diety/dieties with ceratin guidelines reguarding his/her/its/their wishes. |
14 |
22% |
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| I have a religion that was not founded on the belief of a diety, yet maintains certain rules and guidelines for behavior. |
8 |
12% |
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| I do not affiliate myself with any religion, but believe in a super power, such as a god(s). I act according to how I believe a god/gods would want hi |
1 |
1% |
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| I do not affiliate myself with any religion, but believe in a super power, such as a god(s). I act according to my own standards in humanity. |
14 |
22% |
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| I do not affiliate myself with any religion and do not believe in a higher power that is not explainable through pure science. I act according to my o |
26 |
41% |
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| Vote Now! |
63 Votes Cast |
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pseudo neurosis
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Quote: from Mein Alias at 3:35 pm on Jan. 8, 2009
 Since there's too many religions to list and be comprehensive and open-minded, I figure this is the second best. I'm quite curious to see the results based on a portion of the community labeled as intellectual, since I've always associated religion with a lack of intelligence. I'm not calling religious people stupid, but I am saying that the poor and uneducated are more liable to be religious because they have nothing more sturdy to rely on other than a higher power to guide them through their lives. 
I think that statement is completely ignorant. I am a scientist and believe in the statement "science makes you believe in nothing." I think that's good, because if you do believe in something that cannot be explained in our frame of reference, your faith in whatever it is is that much stronger. Besides, we all have morals. We all have personal rules we set for ourselves. Dogmatic rules are no different, only they are rules that groups of people adhere to, rather than each individual person's individual rules. Do I think religion is g-r-r-r-eat? No. Many bad things have been done because of religion. But it's the ideal that appeals to people, and as long as the ideal is not forgotten, and the everyday man strives for the ideal, then the belief is fine.
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S0LITUDE
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I do not have anything to do with religion. I believe that the whole whether there's a God debate or not is unnecessary and thus I don't take sides on it. I also believe that it does not matter whether there's physical proof or not because I'm not sure whether I myself exist =/
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agerask
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i am roman catholic. ouch at your jab on religious people.
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exceedinglyrare
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Just a point, Mein Alias that "uneducated" doesn't necessarily mean "unintelligent." Your statements in this thread are rather ignorant, as has been pointed out.
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Chava
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I associate with a religion. My family is Jewish and I adhere to certain laws pertaining to Kosher eating and keeping the High Holy days. Other than that though I pretty much act according to my views of civil behavior.
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I guess it'd be most accurate to say that right now, I hesitantly believe in a divine force of the universe. What that is, what it's motives are, or what to call it, I don't claim any knowledge to.
I fluctuate, though. I struggle with my beliefs a lot; I can go from being agnostic bordering on basic Abrahamic beliefs or even closest to Catholic beliefs, as that's my only exposure to religion; to complete atheist and not even believing in a soul. There's a lot of questions that make me go back and forth. I don't know if I'll ever settle on one belief.
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Si on me presse de dire pourquoi je l'aimais,
je sens que cela ne se peut exprimer qu'en répondant,
"Parce que c'était lui, parce que c'était moi."
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fenrir
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Quote: from sophos at 3:41 am on Jan. 15, 2009
Quote: from omnifariam at 6:03 pm on Jan. 14, 2009
... Fenrir, what do you do for a living? Just curious.
Job title: scared little girl Job description: shy from conflict, throw hissy fits, hide under mommy's apron Performance evaluation: EXCELLENT
You follow little girls? Shame.
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I beleive that he too has a certain degree of sarcasm
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I chose the last option.
I have no belief whatsoever in a deity nor do I practice or associate myself with any religion.
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I do not affiliate myself with any religion, but believe in a super power, such as a god(s). I act according to my own standards in humanity.
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I'm a believer in energy, that its all connected and all endless
all working with and within each other bit of energy, coming and going in waves
so everything is everything and all that stuff
really i could go on for hours, but I'm at work, and shouldn't get paid to talk soul-shop
though it'd be sweet ass if i did
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I believe in something bigger or more powerful than myself but I do not live by life by rules 'it' has supposedly deemed to be the ultimate truth. Instead I think of it more like karma or a general feeling that eminates more at certain times than others. Sometimes it's present and often it doesn need to be.
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Quote: from pseudo neurosis at 7:22 pm on Jan. 16, 2009Quote: from Mein Alias at 3:35 pm on Jan. 8, 2009
Since there's too many religions to list and be comprehensive and open-minded, I figure this is the second best. I'm quite curious to see the results based on a portion of the community labeled as intellectual, since I've always associated religion with a lack of intelligence. I'm not calling religious people stupid, but I am saying that the poor and uneducated are more liable to be religious because they have nothing more sturdy to rely on other than a higher power to guide them through their lives.
Actually I agree with you. All you have to do is be observant to see that a vast majority of people who are extremely religious are not as intelligent. However that is not always true as you stated. There are plenty of intelligent people who are religious.
I'm assuming that the people who find your view ignorant are just angry you would say such a thing. Your view is in no way ignorant. It is a fair hypothesis imo. Now if you had just went on some rant about how religious people are all uneducated morons I might see some justice for their insults. However, I have thought myself that some strict atheists are in the same boat as the "poor/uneducated" religious fundamentalists. Not as many. Yet, I dislike hearing atheists say that they KNOW there is no god. It is the same to me as religious people saying they KNOW there is a god. I personally am an agnostic atheist. Which clears up the problem for me. I am not high and mighty enough to state that I KNOW whether or not there is a god. I just don't believe there is. I believe in science, energy, and I question certain supernatural occurrences. Post edited at 5:36 pm on Jan. 24, 2009 by MelinaEll
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