Poll: assertions made in the previous threads on religion (etc.)
Some of it serious, some of it silly. My secret goal is to know where people stand on the atheism as a religion issue. If the poll isn't your style feel free to respond to that question in comments.


Poll #1175982 Religious assertions
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: Friends

"Why we argue is completely orthogonal to religion."

We argue because of tribalism.

"I don't think core values are universal."

"Religion is often a codification of culture."

"We argue because common drives unite all life."

We argue because "Language is simultaneously very fuzzy and extremely specific."

"...we break into tribes because society as it stands right now is very big, and very impersonal."

Katkt is "a godlike super-being and all must worship [him]."

"...we are in the midst of a huge backlash to this trend [of weakening tribal identity post WWII]."

"Home ownership has been on the fall since shortly after WWII."

"...megachurches lost a lot of their impetus after the 80's."

"Population density has also been on the rise, making it not only harder to live in isolation, but harder to choose one's neighbors."

"Increased population density doesn't make it harder to choose your neighbors. It makes it easier."

"It is not that you do not need to be any of these [Pagan, Christian, Muslim, Animist, Hindu, Jewish, Atheist, or Buddhist]; it is that you must be all of them."

"What all this comes down to is; one doesn't have to be religious in order to be a good person or have a moral conscience or live a meaningful, virtuous life."

"I tend to group animism ... under paganism [or neopaganism]."

"I tend to group ... pantheism ... under paganism [or neopaganism]."

"Atheism doesn't really belong on the list [of choices of religions/religious identificaton]."