To what (if any) Religious denomination do you adhere.
Religious Affliliation of the Backroom
To what (if any) Religious denomination do you adhere.
"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-Eric "George Orwell" Blair
"If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
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Re: Religious Affliliation of the Backroom
You should really make a poll listing ALL of the options....
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Jewish, modern orthodox (which is regular orthodoxy, but we believe that to fully be religious you must interact fully with society)
so i get the best of both worlds....
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I'd say hardcore atheist here.....
"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." - Issac Newton
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There is a poll with a few more classifications than usual.
"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-Eric "George Orwell" Blair
"If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
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Re: Religious Affliliation of the Backroom
Yea Right!Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh
You should really make a poll listing ALL of the options....
"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-Eric "George Orwell" Blair
"If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
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Ironically, I am marking Atheist. As stated in the other thread, being Atheist and being Jewish are not mutually exclusive. Judiasm has a cultural aspect to it that is independent of the religious aspect. Abandoning the latter does not remove the former.
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exactly. while you may not have faith in Hashem, you are still jewish....
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Right. Maybe I should have made the poll about which religion you were born into. I could make another one if this one isn't interesting enough. Maybe one about Cultural religious affiliation - it would be much easier to do than ethnicity.
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"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-Eric "George Orwell" Blair
"If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
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I’ll call myself a 4 out of 10 Christian.
Haven’t we been here before?
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Probably many times. So what!!!!!!!!!??????
"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-Eric "George Orwell" Blair
"If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
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Officially Roman Catholic - in practice rather an agnostic who respects religeous beliefs but cannot really convince himself to believe.
I generally consider the teachings of the New Testament to be a good moral structure to live by, though.
So .. uhm ... I guess I put my vote to "agnostic"
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Southern Baptist. Thats right those crazies you see on Tv? I break bread with them! MAHAUHAUHAHUAUHAHUAUHAHAUUHA
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Playful atheist. Religion baffles me, I will never understand why people believe in a god of any sort, but some do and that is fine.
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Protestantism is quite a broad category...
Church of Scotland myself. So that's a typical Calvinist church, although I am worried that attitudes are changing.
I do quite like the look of the Free Presbyterian Church though, because I share its views on adult baptism.
At the end of the day politics is just trash compared to the Gospel.
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That would change a lot of people's votes, mine included.
More Atheists than I thought (I always thought we had more Agnostics than Atheists).
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I call myself an atheist, yet I don't think that chance exists. To some degree it does, but when it starts getting "scary", I tend to think there is something softly pushing the chances to a greater thing.
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Recently moved from agnosticism to full-blown atheism. It occurred to me that in the total absence of evidence, the proper scientific stance is not to adopt a position of comforting equivocation, it is to assume the null hypothesis.
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Roman Catholic out of choice - was born into a fairly non-religious household (what beliefs my parents had they generally kept to themselves).
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So would Episcopalians fall into the Anglican category or the Protestant category?
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Yeah hard to get a good pulse on the diversity out there with a poll. If the poll had asked BORN INTO, my answer would be Missouri Synod Lutheran.
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all this makes me wonder? i wonder how many orgah are jews?
i think ill pose that question in the frontroom......
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Roman Catholic.
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Oh c'mon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican_Communion
If you want to split hairs...
"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-Eric "George Orwell" Blair
"If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
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Luthren ELCA, with heavy dietist leanings.
When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples
-Stephen Crane
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Mark me as "unsure". Hence, I shall abstain from voting, for the time being.
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Atheist. Too many reasons for me to not believe, added to the lack of evidence of a supreme being. That said I think that its great that people can have faith in such things...
Nihil nobis metuendum est, praeter metum ipsum. - Caesar
We have not to fear anything, except fear itself.
Ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram
perque domos Ditis vacuas et inania regna:
quale per incertam lunam sub luce maligna
est iter in silvis, ubi caelum condidit umbra
Iuppiter, et rebus nox abstulit atra colorem. - Vergil
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I am a baptized Catholic. (Surprise). That was pretty much the end all of it. I wasn't brought up religiously, and have never believed. I don't not (no typo) believe enough to even consider myself an atheist.
This, of course, is the only proper way of atheism. The other atheists denominations must burn at the stake for their heresy. It, erm...says so not in the Bible, therefore it must necessarily be true for those who do not believe in a Christian God.
...anyway...
Jewish is a more complex identity, at least bearing more connotations, than Catholic, but to a large extent, the above is how I would describe my 'Catholicism'.
I think that those familiar with Catholic culture could tell my Catholic heritage even from my posts here. Even when the subject barely touches religion. I should think it simply shows, that it permeates my outlook, my ideas.
Maybe I should call myself post-Catholic. And demand Tuff adds this option to the poll too, just to make his life miserable.
I shall vote the way most others have understood the poll: as asking about current personal belief, and not heritage. Hence I am an atheist.
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Protestantism is a broad category, as already stated.
Lutheran- In the US,I do not identify myself with any particular Church, though I have been raised in Sweden under the Church of Sweden.
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This poll is clearly anti atheist!!
Atheism is the obvious choice as a first poll option starting with a and everything but it is listed at the bottom to force the other options to be considered first...
Edit: Atheist.. surprising i now..
Whats with all the polls!! i enjoy voting but feel i should be annoyed....
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