elusiveat ([info]elusiveat) wrote,
@ 2008-04-22 15:08:00
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Poll: religion
Now I'm curious.

One question. One choice. If I failed to include your preferred religion, or you want to elaborate, please do so in comments.

Poll #1175405 Religion
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: Friends

Which of the folllowing best characterizes your religious identification?

Pagan
6 (14.0%)

Christian
4 (9.3%)

Muslim
0 (0.0%)

Animist
1 (2.3%)

Hindu
0 (0.0%)

Jewish
6 (14.0%)

Atheist
11 (25.6%)

Buddhist
3 (7.0%)

Agnostic
12 (27.9%)

Pantheist
0 (0.0%)


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[info]noneuklid
2008-04-22 07:12 pm UTC (link)
This poll inspires me to make rude remarks.

Radio boxes?

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[info]elusiveat
2008-04-22 07:15 pm UTC (link)
There's a madness to my methods. Please bear with me.

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[info]noneuklid
2008-04-22 07:17 pm UTC (link)
I assumed that you were aware that it will inspire many of your friends to make rude remarks. But that doesn't demonstrate anything novel; and I can't provide the input if I don't understand the prompt.

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[info]elusiveat
2008-04-22 07:19 pm UTC (link)
Are there any objections other than the fact that it only permits one response per user?

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[info]noneuklid
2008-04-22 07:22 pm UTC (link)
I take my joke religion very seriously.

And many of those religions have some very distinct branches.

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[info]elusiveat
2008-04-22 07:26 pm UTC (link)
I take my joke religion very seriously.

I assume this is the one I think you mean?

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[info]noneuklid
2008-04-22 07:33 pm UTC (link)
Yes. But there are others; although many Subgenius, for instance, will identify as Athiest or Agnostic, not all do.

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[info]metahacker
2008-04-22 07:19 pm UTC (link)
Bearing with.

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[info]kpram
2008-04-22 07:29 pm UTC (link)
http://www.io.com/~kpram/church.html

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[info]elusiveat
2008-04-22 07:32 pm UTC (link)
: )

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[info]emp42ress
2008-04-22 07:57 pm UTC (link)
Having to choose one made me do some weird defining: religiously, if forced to choose I'll pick agnostic, but Jewish is at least as large a defining feature of who I am, it's just more cultural than religious. Of course, that said, if you let me, I'd choose both.

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[info]rufinia
2008-04-22 08:16 pm UTC (link)
Do I get to call myself "Token" now?

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[info]elusiveat
2008-04-22 08:21 pm UTC (link)
[grin] I know there are a couple others on my friends list, but if it please you...

Also, that icon is awesome : )

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[info]soong
2008-04-22 08:46 pm UTC (link)
I'll stand on the sidelines and cheer for the religious left, but haven't played that game in a while.

My considered bucket of labels is: lapsed UU atheist humanist with an occasional taste for Buddhism.
I voted atheist.

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[info]squirrelitude
2008-04-22 11:51 pm UTC (link)
Same here, except without the Buddhist bit.

I'm technically agnostic, but atheist by default (if forced to make a choice). Occam's Razor and all that.

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[info]xuth
2008-04-22 08:29 pm UTC (link)
I don't know that I "identify" with any religion. It's not a part of who I am. If you tried to pin me down to something, depending on the day and your choice of definitions, you might be able to associate me with agnostics or atheists, but only because you'd be defining either of them so broadly.

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[info]sprrwhwk
2008-04-22 08:34 pm UTC (link)
Culturally Lutheran (ELCA); functionally agnostic (what I picked above); believes if there is a god(s) that created the universe, ey is best understood through studying the universe ey created, which could fall under pantheist, I guess.

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[info]lightvortex
2008-04-22 09:06 pm UTC (link)
I voted Buddhist, but I don't really practice it and go to a UU church (which actually has a Buddhist sitting group, but I don't go to it because it meets at the same time as the young adult group).

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[info]flwyd
2008-04-22 10:40 pm UTC (link)
I tend to group animism and sometimes pantheism (depending on the flavor) under paganism (or neopaganism, depending on how pedantic people want to be).

Atheism doesn't really belong on the list; the question "Do you believe in God" is correlated, but not identical to, "What religion do you identify with?"

I classify myself as polyatheist, I believe in the nonexistence of many gods.

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[info]squirrelitude
2008-04-22 11:53 pm UTC (link)
Atheism doesn't really belong on the list; the question "Do you believe in God" is correlated, but not identical to, "What religion do you identify with?"


Amen.

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[info]lyght
2008-04-23 01:43 am UTC (link)
I also found myself surprised that there were so many options that to me seemed pagan.

Checked animism, which is not necessarily what comes easy to me. In that case I would probably have to be agnostic, because I am in constant doubt about all possibilities presented to me. I make a conscious effort to "practice" animism as a form of paganism, in the same way someone who meditates regularly is said to practice.

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[info]ultimatepsi
2008-04-23 11:51 am UTC (link)
But... there is no "other" option. Now I have to actually think. Not fair! (-;

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[info]ultimatepsi
2008-04-23 11:59 am UTC (link)
So after a bit of thinking, I went with agnostic, rather than Pagan or Pantheist, because while there are Pagan and Pantheistic elements to my religion, both fail to encompass the entirety of it. Also, I have been known to refer to myself as "the most religious agnostic I've ever met".

In summary, I believe in many Gods that may or may not exist.

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[info]elusiveat
2008-04-23 02:54 pm UTC (link)
Uh oh. You're on to me.

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[info]gigglingwizard
2008-04-23 11:58 am UTC (link)
I checked Pagan, but my approach to paganism is both pantheistic and animistic.

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