What religion do you follow? (2)

I'm wondering what the proportions of the various religions are in here (specifically I'm wondering how that ties into political stances, if it all).
Note - I mean which religion you're active in - that may be none, even if you're nominally in a religion but just don't practise.

 

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I am a catholic proud and true, albeit I don;t go to church, meh! But I think personally that Catholics are more sexually conservative, but politically liberal in comparison to their deviants which are the Proestants. I am a liberal granted, and we value culture of our Church as a intergral part in many nations histories good or bad.

 

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The main problem which I found with any religion, is the human element, which based on very little information, developed a full and complex, totally unsubstantiated system.
I believe in a unique God, and as a christian in Jesus Crist, but not in any so named christian faiths, which -all of them- differ so much of what Jesus teached.

 

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Deism.

 

Cthulhuism.

I do believe I was the first to propose the creation of a US Cthulhuist state where strict religious law was enforced.

 

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What label today?

Essential monism.

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Tiassa

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James,
I know Secular Humanism isn't a religion (I'm a secular humanist myself), but it isn't a religion in the same way that black isn't a colour. Call it a committment rather than a philosophy or a religion I guess.
Non-secular humanism would be agnosticism rather than atheism.

 

What? No separate choice for "Woship of Xev"? I'm offended! Of course, I'd be sorely tempted by "Worship of Bebelina"...

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Sparks

An interesting issue you raise, but I submit two counterpoints:

(1) Secular humanism is a religion inasmuch as atheism is: the First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects your right to be either atheistic or secularly humanistic. Also remember that "secular" is a comparative word.

(2) Secular humanism represents a doctrinal paradigm that can, like any religion, be held to despite objective evidence to the contrary; it is an assertion of principles much like religious morals. At this point, we cycle back to point #1.

So I suppose it's a matter of hair-splitting. Freedom of religion includes the right to have no specific religion, or to invest religion in no specific God. And while, most days, this is a point of only minor consequence, it seems to be more substantial a consideration in our forums, where there seems to exist a rhetorical difference between clinging to principle in the name of God and clinging to principle in the name of Cause. Yet, as a human function, I admit I see no difference between them. The biggest difference is that "cause" is easier to sublimate.

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I don't really have a name for my religious beliefs, and making one up on the spot would be stupid, but I do pratice my own unique religion. Sometimes it is my only constant, it defines who I am heavily.

 

tiassa,

You have objective evidence that a deity exists, that human life has no intrinsic value, and that we as humans are incapable of bettering our own world without the direct aid of a deity?

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I am an agnostic.

The nature of a supreme being makes it impossible to provide concrete evidence for or against its existence. Personally I find it a bit arrogant to claim that one has absolute knowledge of something that can't truly be known.

If I had to guess, I would say that there probably isn't any supreme being or higher power, but I can't say for sure either way.

 

Sparks

Explain secular humanism to me just a little bit. I always thought that it meant simply that one didn't believe in anything super- natural, that a more appropriate label might be naturalistic humanism. I have thought that was a main difference between it and deism, as deists believe in a Supreme Being.

 

Spyke,
These sites do a far better job than I can:
http://www.secularhumanism.org/
http://irish-humanists.org/

 

Atheism

I do not believe in Miracles.
Some things are Amazing, and at some level Everything is amazing, but the problem with religion in general is that is a way to prevent oneself from admitting that somethings are beyond knowing.
Saying that god knows something is very much like saying, "I don't know."
I think that saying, "I don't know." is honest.
I think that saying, "I don't know, but god knows" is unnecessary.

therefore I am an Atheist

btw
your list did not include a category for atheists, why not?

 

It had two Jasper - "Not a part of any religion", and "Secular Humanist".

 

Well ....

On the one hand, isn't that a little beside the point? To the other, isn't that sort of the point?

Life is organized around a series of presuppositions. That's all.

Human life has what value we assign it.

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I’m a probabilistic agnostic in that I believe god/s is very unlikely but still possible.