What is your religion/belief?

[Nero]

Hello guys and dolls.
Just curious about the religions/beliefs of our members.
Protestant Christian here.
If I have forgotten yours, tell me and I'll add it.

[Kate]

Pagan is close I guess as a category, but it's really more a personal mythology, and one that I've always just "known" since I was born, not something I learned or figured out. If anything, I've had to *unlearn* to get back to what I already knew.

So Faeries and Dreaming and Dove Dark Chocolate are pretty much my religion

~Kate~

[Melissa]

I'm gonna go with Other

Ditto.  Mine are somewhat based on christianity, but not completely.  It's really a mix of beliefs.

[Nero]

I'm gonna go with Other

I'm gonna go with Other

Ditto.  Mine are somewhat based on christianity, but not completely.  It's really a mix of beliefs.

ok. 'Other' has been added to the poll.

[Jessica]

It used to be the case that I would answer Buddhism.

Now, I'm not sure.  I don't know if I have one.

Jessica

[Nando]

I am a religious pluralist. My ethics and view on life is fueled by Philosophical Taoism, Zen Buddhism, and LaVeyan Satanism. Spiritually, I am a neopagan. I am a non-theist, meaning that I don't believe in a god, but I believe in spirituality.

But I do fantasize on being a Jew every once and a while. 

[SarahFaceDoom]

I'm sort of a chaos magician in the sense that I just use what system works best for me at that point in time.  I'm most familiar with Christianity and Buddhism though.  I was raised in an extremely fundementalist, almost radically so, childhood.  My dad and his family basically live out in the hills somewhere(I don't even know anymore) where they make their own food and stockpile weapons, keeping themselves isolated from secular society, and ready for...I don't know what.  The rapture I think.  Or zombies.  Probably zombies.

I'm sort of a discordian.  Or that's what they tell me.

[Jeannette]

I'm Evangelic; thus, voted OTHER.

[Gray Seraph]

It's hard to put a name to my religion, so "Other".

I tend to borrow bits and pieces from various religions( whatever suits my needs at the time), and have my own mythology to go along with it( some I thought up on my own, and the rest is based on existing mythologies).

There's no better religion than the one you come up with on your own. Otherwise your not really following your personal beliefs, just blindly following someone else's.

~Marciel

[The Middle Way]

I have to say

none of the above

(including 'Other')

[Nero]

I have to say

none of the above

(including 'Other')

ok, please share.

[tinkerbell]

I couldn't find the option for Tinkerlicism so I voted Roman Catholic. 

tink

[The Middle Way]

I have to say

none of the above

(including 'Other')

ok, please share.

Well, first this was an opportunity to make a bad joke, which I can't resist.

I have no firm belief system, I don't believe in them, yet. Which appears to be nonsense, yeah, well.
I'll grant you it's absurd, which is kind of the point....

I am studying what's called the Diamond Vehicle (Vajrayana) of Buddhism, but it would be absurd to say I practice, it's new to me. Buddhism is, to my view, a school-of-thought, rather than a Religion, anyway; the only thing I have been able to find, per 'God' in the texts (again I'm new, haven't talked much to any of their nuns or monks, ya know?) has been to deny God as we commonly know Him/Her/It; that it's all Mind, Universal Mind, which, long story short, is the one thing-in-itself, the rest is interdependent upon phemomena, which has no essence of its own.

[Buddhism is a heterodoxy of (proto-)Hinduism, which is something the Historical Buddha never quite repudiated, in the first place.]

(Then you have the whole chicken-eating dilemma in there, & ya can't go for that practice, no way no how...)

Anyway, long story short, I am extremely attracted to this non-religion, particularly as 'Belief', as is usually thought of EG: in this topic, is not believed in, in there, in any typical way.

South Park: "God is a Buddhist...*" who just doesn't go for all that stuff...

(*: only all the people in hebbin is mormons, so go figure 
also see; Discordianism cf. The Flying Spaghetti Monster)

nota

[Christo]

Protestant Christian here.

same here

[Kimberly]

Other -- It is not on the books.

Any books


Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:57:33 PDT:
Just to reprise my words which are still pretty accurate really, but I seem to agree with the Gnostic view these days. Albeit, my view and understanding is still very eclectic I must admit.

[Pica Pica]

I used to do discordian, then i met one. I can never be one again.

[katia]

i'm an atheist.  i have to make a notation though.  atheism is neither a religion nor a belief system.

[ErickaM]

I'm an Evangelic..

[RebeccaFog]

I put other.

          I don't feel drawn to a particular discipline. I attend UU church, however, the UU congregation is made up of wiccans, agnostics, jews, muslims, catholics, etcetera & such.

     I am a spiritual person who believes that there is one hell of a huge spirit woven throughout the universe. It is every individuals choice in how they communicate with it, how they personify it, and how they relate with it.

     Every individual has the potential to relate to their God. Each individual is capable of discovering God within themselves. It doesn't have to be called 'God', but it absolutely cannot be called Edgar Cranberry Sparkleton Reese.

[Rachel]

I am spiritual with the earth.  i wanna move to a place with some land and meditate out in nature, and play music.  So basically im a wood nymph as the token gay guy at my work said.....it was funneh