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| What is your religious belief? |
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38% |
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| other religion (please specify) |
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5% |
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| theist (There is a God), but not committed to a particular religion |
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2% |
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| agnostic (There may or may not be a God.) |
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15% |
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| atheist (There is no God.) |
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37% |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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 Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:32 pm Post subject: What is your religious belief? |
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A religious believer on this board recently complained that the religious skeptics were in the majority, and that they were taking over the place.
Is that true, or do all of us tend to see the enemy as more powerful than it really is?
Assuming that most of the messages are from religious skeptics, does that mean that the religious skeptics really are the majority?
Or do we have a silent majority and a vociferous minority?
I know that this question has been asked in a poll before, but I can't find it.
Last edited by tomato on Sun Jun 24, 2007 3:32 am; edited 1 time in total |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:40 pm Post subject: Re: What is your religious belief? |
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| tomato wrote: |
A religious believer recently complained that the religious skeptics on this board were in the majority, and that they were taking over the place.
Is that true, or do all of us tend to see the enemy as more powerful than it really is?
Assuming that most of the messages are from religious skeptics, does that mean that the religious skeptics really are the majority?
Or do we have a silent majority and a vociferous minority?
I know that this question has been asked in a poll before, but I can't find it. |
Yeah, I started that thread and I can't even find it. I think the last time there were about 35% Christians and the rest evenly divided up, so it would support a silent majority. |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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At least this religion thread has more of a higher purpose than most of the other ones.
I won't take part in the poll, though, as my religious background has nothing to do with my career and shouldn't be a basis for stereotypes and judgments. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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| You'd figure with a random sampling of university graduates and people with jobs that require thinking, you'd find a lower amount of religious people than on average. |
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Boodleheimer
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
Location: working undercover for the Man
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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Catholic. with a Religious Studies minor at uni (Early Christianity, original texts and exegesis). and i can't stand Benedict and i despised the policies of John Paul II.
are you going to sub-divide 'Christian' at all? (born-again, Protestant, Orthodox, Catholic, other... or perhaps Vehement Christian, Hippie Christian, Guilt-Obsessed Christian, other...) |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 10:18 pm Post subject: Re: What is your religious belief? |
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| tomato wrote: |
A religious believer recently complained that the religious skeptics on this board were in the majority, and that they were taking over the place.
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How odd: I'd have said it were 'tother way round ... |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Bibbitybop wrote: |
I won't take part in the poll, though, as my religious background has nothing to do with my career and shouldn't be a basis for stereotypes and judgments. |
What has career got to do with it? |
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Grimalkin
Joined: 22 May 2005
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 12:37 am Post subject: |
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Just been reading that less than 7% of the members of The National Academy of Sciences in America believe in a 'personal god'.
Maybe there's hope after all!  |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 12:39 am Post subject: |
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Ain't got no god
Ain't got no devil
Sun's comin' up
Got cakes on the griddle
Life ain't nothin' but a stupid fkn riddle
Thank god I'm an atheist |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 3:11 am Post subject: |
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Belief is a weak term - one might believe in anything...
There's a difference between belief and faith. St. Paul refers to faith as the "evidence of things unseen"...
The founder of the nonsectarian International Society for Krishna Consciousness defines faith as "trust in something sublime". It can be developed progressively by practicing techniques of spiritual science outlined in Bhagavad-gita and other Vedic literatures ...
"In God We Trust" is still the current national motto of the United States of America.
The day that it's changed to "In atheistic scientists we trust" will assure the destruction of modern civilization ... |
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Saxiif
Joined: 15 May 2003
Location: Seongnam
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 3:14 am Post subject: |
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faith as the "evidence of things unseen"...
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That is a rather confusing assertion. |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 3:30 am Post subject: |
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| Rteacher wrote: |
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"In God We Trust" is still the current national motto of the United States of America.
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hmmm, that's what is written on the notes issued by the private bank known as the Fed.
I have never heard it referred to as the "national mortto". Indeed, as a motto for a state founded on desire for religious freedom and tolerance I would find it strange were it so. |
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ED209
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 3:31 am Post subject: |
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| Rteacher wrote: |
Belief is a weak term - one might believe in anything...
There's a difference between belief and faith. St. Paul refers to faith as the "evidence of things unseen"...
The founder of the nonsectarian International Society for Krishna Consciousness defines faith as "trust in something sublime". It can be developed progressively by practicing techniques of spiritual science outlined in Bhagavad-gita and other Vedic literatures ...
"In God We Trust" is still the current national motto of the United States of America.
The day that it's changed to "In atheistic scientists we trust" will assure the destruction of modern civilization ... |
Put you down as theist then? |
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ED209
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 3:39 am Post subject: |
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| Wangja wrote: |
| Rteacher wrote: |
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"In God We Trust" is still the current national motto of the United States of America.
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hmmm, that's what is written on the notes issued by the private bank known as the Fed.
I have never heard it referred to as the "national mortto". Indeed, as a motto for a state founded on desire for religious freedom and tolerance I would find it strange were it so. |
What should America's motto be?
"America, f*ck yeah!"
"You're fired!"
"In God we trust?"
"Does God hate fags? Raise your hands"
Tomato- looked at the poll atheists standing at around 51% |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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| I happily skewed the poll. |
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