What Religion do you follow discussion thread.

[Securitan]

Thank you, finally someone who knows the facts. The Inquisition killed 6000 people over 500 years, while witch trials killed over 120,000 people over 300 years.

Disgusting historical revisionism.

The Inquisition killed indirectly very often because it allied to absolute monarchies that used religious criteria to apply death penalty, slavery, ethnic cleansing, deportations.

I can't find a source that says what you said - all place the number of killings by the Inquisition, direct or indirect, between 3000 and 6000.

EDIT: I just found a source that said anywhere between 100-140 million. Never mind.

[Sunalay]

whao I didn't know there were so many atheists on NS

Too many, in my opinion.

It's good to have mixture.

Really?

[Ripoll]

Roman Catholicism, though I suppose it is more cultural than me actually believing it all. I do like the academic study of it as literature though. (by it I refer to the bible) and I generally dislike atheists with the same world view as Richard Dawkins (I hate individuals that are deliberate pricks to people, what can I say)

[Liberty and Linguistics]

I'm largely agnostic. As simple as that, really. Although, I hate fundamentalists and "better than thou" atheists equally.

[Uieurnthlaal]

I'm nominally Roman Catholic and I celebrate Christmas and Easter, but in practice, I almost never go to church, and religion plays no role in my personal life anyway, so I consider myself agnostic.

[Securitan]

We're getting a good survey of NSG here!

[Anarkhist Kyrylashka]

Nah, I think it's just 1.1 billion.

When you count Christians in Name Only it jumps to 2 billion.

Ah. That makes sense.

[Dalcaria]

Disgusting historical revisionism.

The Inquisition killed indirectly very often because it allied to absolute monarchies that used religious criteria to apply death penalty, slavery, ethnic cleansing, deportations.

I can't find a source that says what you said - all place the number of killings by the Inquisition, direct or indirect, between 3000 and 6000.

EDIT: I just found a source that said anywhere between 100-140 million. Never mind.

Wait, what? The Inquisition killed more people than the Black Plague and WW1 combined? That's a bit of a stretch...... I mean, unless you're saying "these are all the lives that could have existed if not for the Inquisition", that's one thing, but that's talking about centuries down the road.

[Dalcaria]

I'm largely agnostic. As simple as that, really. Although, I hate fundamentalists and "better than thou" atheists equally.

Cheers to that mate! Christian, but equally unhappy with the "better than thou" folks, from both the Theistic and Atheistic side of things. I so much more prefer when we can all just treat people with respect and get along!

[Securitan]

I can't find a source that says what you said - all place the number of killings by the Inquisition, direct or indirect, between 3000 and 6000.

EDIT: I just found a source that said anywhere between 100-140 million. Never mind.

Wait, what? The Inquisition killed more people than the Black Plague and WW1 combined? That's a bit of a stretch...... I mean, unless you're saying "these are all the lives that could have existed if not for the Inquisition", that's one thing, but that's talking about centuries down the road.

Hey I never said valid source.

[The United Territories of Providence]

Apatheist

Maybe there's a god, maybe there isn't. Maybe something happens when we die and maybe not. There's only one sure way to know, and everyone who found the answer never lived to tell. Life would probably be better spent focusing on improving this world rather than focusing on entering the next, and that is regardless of God's existence.

[Edgy Opinions]

I'm not talking about murders, necessarily. Often New Christians just faced servitude, discrimination and persecution as a consequence. Being burned at the stake was more for "serious" offenses like sodomy...

[Securitan]

I'm not talking about murders, necessarily. Often New Christians just faced servitude, discrimination and persecution as a consequence. Being burned at the stake was more for "serious" offenses like sodomy...

Yeah and that's despicable. I'm tired, however, of people using the Inqisition as the absolute worst example of what religion can do.

[Phineana]

I consider myself a Jew, but I don't practice. I'm really an Agnostic.

[Phineana]

Apatheist

Maybe there's a god, maybe there isn't. Maybe something happens when we die and maybe not. There's only one sure way to know, and everyone who found the answer never lived to tell. Life would probably be better spent focusing on improving this world rather than focusing on entering the next, and that is regardless of God's existence.

This.

[Menassa]

I consider myself a Jew, but I don't practice. I'm really an Agnostic.

So why do you consider yourself a Jew?

[True American States]

Protestant Christianity. We are like neck and neck with all these unbelievers in NS.

[Securitan]

I consider myself a Jew, but I don't practice. I'm really an Agnostic.

So why do you consider yourself a Jew?

You can be from the region of Judea and not be religious. Same way you can be Arab and not Muslim.

[Ikania]

I'm an atheist, but a very open minded one at that. More like an agnostic atheist. While I haven't found any compelling evidence in support of a God, I think it would make the most logical explanation to how we were created so long as it coincides with proven facts pertaining to evolution and the age of the world.

For example, if it dawned on me one day that what Zoroaster said makes sense, I might just switch.

[Phineana]

I consider myself a Jew, but I don't practice. I'm really an Agnostic.

So why do you consider yourself a Jew?

I attended a Reform Jewish elementary school, and the label just sort of stuck. I got used to calling myself Jewish, so even when I realized that I don't really follow the religion anymore, I kept with it. But it's also that I identify with the culture; my dad was raised Catholic, and I admire certain aspects of Catholicism, but I don't view it as having the same personal relevance.

[Solaray]

Christian, technically Lutheran, but I really don't follow denominational nuances much.

[Pope Joan]

I am a Mennonite. We call ourselves a "third way" between Catholicism and Protestantism.

We support "works righteousness", which is anathema to Reformation Protestants.

We believe in direct access to divine reality without the mediation of priests or institutions, which means we could not be part of the Catholic church.

We live simple lives, try to be helpful, practice honesty without taking an oath, and work for peace.

[Sun Wukong]

Buddhism. As per the community service agreement.

[Burleson 2]

Well when you live in the Deep South if you don't go to church on a regular basis, you tend to be viewed as the spawn of the devil.

I am from Texas, was raised a southern baptist, and sometimes the people in the south are right.

Fixed that for you

[Dalcaria]

Wait, what? The Inquisition killed more people than the Black Plague and WW1 combined? That's a bit of a stretch...... I mean, unless you're saying "these are all the lives that could have existed if not for the Inquisition", that's one thing, but that's talking about centuries down the road.

Hey I never said valid source.

These sound like numbers Faux News would come up with for how many people Muslims have killed. Then again, apparently they've been trying to turn down the crazy lately, but I don't know by how much.