Question:
Random Poll No.1

What religion are you?

Choices:
Christian
Jewish
Muslim
Other
None/Jedi

 

(insert a flaming anti-religious remark here that will get everyone all rowled up and pissed off at me, cause it's gunna happen sooner or later, so bring on the three ****ing bears!!!)

I'm a hardcore atheist. Not to offend anyone here, but I believe that religion is a scam that encourages group-think instead of individual thought - which is what this country (America) is founded on. Yes, I respect those who believe in God(s) or other religion, however, I feel that those religions (especially Christianity) are extremely contradictory and illogical. It's not easy to have an intelligent conversation with someone who believes in creationism over evolutionism - a theory that has been scientifically proven. With our president in office, religion is starting to become a basis for limiting our freedoms (gay-marraige, abortion).

I won't stand or sing or take off my hat for the Canadian nation anthem because of it's reference to god.

Unitarian. But I'm not real big into organized religion. Its all fine and dandy... until it goes bad.

We're the ones who do the partnership with the vampires, you know, the Transilvainian Outreach Program,

EDIT: left out the important word "not" up there!

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good points Tresspasser, I agree totally. I hate all religions, but dont think you have to be Atheist just cause religions are stupid. I was the same way, but thats only cause my knowledge of "god" was what I had heard from different religions. I dont follow any belief systems, but I believe in a God (I just see God as everything in the Universe) and I believe everyone has the potential to be God (Jesus' true teachings)

and creationism is evolution

There is a big differece between religion and faith. I beleive in Jesus Christ as my lord and savior. But I'm not a big fan of religion. I can see where it turns people off. Espeacially the hardliners. So God Bless to all, including the atheist. Peace.

You guys got to be careful with this one, don't generalize so much, because within each one of those religions, they even have their own groups.

For instance, Christian:

-Catholic (I shun you).
-Baptist (How can you call youself that if you don't believe in Baptism?)
-Lutheran's
-Latter Day Saints
-Jehova's Witnesses (Keep away from my door!)
-Community Chruch's (Down the street, so far . . .)
-Church of Christ


I for one follow the Church of Christ. And that's not even it. The correct terminology would be I follow Christ and associate myself with the church of Christ because the congregation wich I worship with believes the same thing.
Yes, we do meet together and worship together. But there's no Pope, Bishop, or Priest telling you what God wants you to do. We look in the Bible for the answers, and everything is between the individual and God.
and that's how it should be.

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Originally posted by Kyle Johnson:
and creationism is evolution

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Is it? I meant Darwinism then.

I'm not too fond of religious groups. Other people can drown themselves out, but i'm not going to take any of it. I went to catholic school for 9 years - and i had enough of their lectures and point of views on life and everything. They were trying to chain me down and follow them on their path. I wasn't allowed to ask questions concerning their views; i was punished for thinking on my own.

They were shoving on us that we had to be good, be good and worship all the time. If we didn't, we'd all go to hell. Fear isn't going to work on me, especially if i choose to believe my own beliefs. So i basically have a "F-ck you" attitude to catholisism.

creationism is evolution in the sense that the universe was created (big bang or whatever) and then from that we're created (evolution you can call it)

I respect everyone's right to choose their own path and choose what to believe in, but I think religion is very outdated and really no longer serves the purpose that it was originally created for. Religion (for the most part) first began as a way to explain the inexplainable. It gave an explanation for how we got here, why we got here, and what we need to do now that we are here. We live in an age now where we can live by sound logic, reason, and science to explain most of that. To be blunt, we live in an age in which we don't need to make up stories to explain what we don't understand, because we have the tools and we have the intelligence to figure it out. What we're really doing here is for everyone to find out on their own paths. People ought to think individually and go about their lives on their own and not constantly try to please someone else. Life is yours, folks. Live it your way.

JW is right on this one.

See, and my point of view is that is a very arragont stand to take.
I view that as man putting themselves at the same level as God, which is very blasphemous.

To say religion was created for the purpose of explanation is also very . . . ill researched. I'm sure many religions were all created for that, but to say all of them were is ridiculous. After all, the purpose (as I see it) is not where human kind came from, but where I, individually, came from and where I'm going afterwards.

Im hardcore Jewsh

and proud of it.