Poll: What is Your Religion (not your nation’s)?

[Constitutional Technocracy of Minecraft]

Agnostic atheism is also sometimes called weak atheism. Strong atheism would include the new atheism of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and others.

That is the good Atheism. We need strong resolute beliefs and steadfast believers if we wish to compete against religion in its many forms.

Seems like you're winning here in the UK. According to a 2017 poll less than 50% of the population is religious now

[Democratic Communist Federation]

Maybe. To be honest, I believe that in the grand scheme of things religious discussions are irrelevant as the only way we can find out whether afterlife exists or not is only after we die (at least for now). However, my main issue with religion is its trend to stigmatise all those who do not follow it to the letter.

There is also finally one Sikh. Most Sikhs (though I am not one personally) are open-minded and tolerant of others.

[Democratic Communist Federation]

Seems like you're winning here in the UK. According to a 2017 poll less than 50% of the population is religious now

They are commonly called the nones.

[Krumolia]

Maybe. To be honest, I believe that in the grand scheme of things religious discussions are irrelevant as the only way we can find out whether afterlife exists or not is only after we die (at least for now). However, my main issue with religion is its trend to stigmatise all those who do not follow it to the letter.

There is also finally one Sikh. Most Sikhs (though I am not one personally) are open-minded and tolerant of others.

Wait. So I'm a Sikh?

[Omnonia]

Agnostic atheism is also sometimes called weak atheism. Strong atheism would include the new atheism of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and others.

That is the good Atheism. We need strong resolute beliefs and steadfast believers if we wish to compete against religion in its many forms.

Strong atheism is a religion, itself... even though strong atheists don't have the integrity to admit it. And the evidence for strong atheism is exactly as solid as that for the existence of [insert deity X here].

BTW, Dawkins - much as I loathe him in regards to his jerkass attitude on religion - still is an agnostic atheist. He'd readily convert to any religion whose deity would be proven to exist by empirical standards. That's not gnostic, and thus, "weak".

[The Blaatschapen]

Agnostic atheism is also sometimes called weak atheism. Strong atheism would include the new atheism of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and others.

That is the good Atheism. We need strong resolute beliefs and steadfast believers if we wish to compete against religion in its many forms.

I do not wish to compete with religion. I prefer to spend my time on something more useful than that

[Democratic Communist Federation]

Wait. So I'm a Sikh?

lol. I am good friends with members of the local Sikh temple. They are really fine people.

Actually, I almost became a Sikh back in the late 1960s.

[Democratic Communist Federation]

Yes, religious studies can be rather time consuming.

[Democratic Communist Federation]

Strong atheism is a religion, itself... even though strong atheists don't have the integrity to admit it. And the evidence for strong atheism is exactly as solid as that for the existence of [insert deity X here].

BTW, Dawkins - much as I loathe him in regards to his jerkass attitude on religion - still is an agnostic atheist. He'd readily convert to any religion whose deity would be proven to exist by empirical standards. That's not gnostic, and thus, "weak".

I am trying my best to be reasonably non-ideological in this thread. However, I must admit that I agree with you. See, for instance, Alister E. McGrath and Joanna Collicutt McGrath's book The Dawkins Delusion?: Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine.

[United Islamic Commonwealth]

Wait. So I'm a Sikh?

lol. I am good friends with members of the local Sikh temple. They are really fine people.

Actually, I almost became a Sikh back in the late 1960s.

I mean no offense, but how old are you? :p

[Democratic Communist Federation]

I mean no offense, but how old are you?

I am pretty old. 61.

[Phoenicaea]

before the answer. Is it the official religion (the one of family, tradition coming from), or the personal believe? (with due respect I ask, why not to introduce such distinction in the poll)

[Democratic Communist Federation]

before the answer. Is it the official religion (the one of family, tradition coming from), or the personal believe? (with due respect I ask, why not to introduce such distinction in the poll)

It is your personal religious faith or the religion you grew up in. As the title of the thread says, Poll: What is Your Religion (not your nation’s)?

[Phoenicaea]

before the answer. Is it the official religion (the one of family, tradition coming from), or the personal believe? (with due respect I ask, why not to introduce such distinction in the poll)

It is your personal religious faith or the religion you grew up in. As the title of the thread says, Poll: What is Your Religion (not your nation’s)?

I asked because it could be a cause of search, I guess not to be alone in beeing Chatolic as tradition - family blood, and might be education, and agnostic in personal believe. So why not a different pool, where one has to say its education and faith believe as discint.

In pool we often have agnostic togheter might be, example given, from christian and from sikh, nevertheless (it could be, I don t know) they could have far different feeling between them, even if they share beeing not denominational.

This mine is for debate, not a critic. You could find association between things, example given: are the ones of christian education supposed to lean toward agnosticism?
(so I ll answer agnostic, by the way, ignoring the "cultural lag" as the pool dictates)

[Victores]

One issue with the poll is that it doesn't take into account people being part of multiple religions at the same time.

[United Islamic Commonwealth]

One issue with the poll is that it doesn't take into account people being part of multiple religions at the same time.

How does one do that?

[Victores]

One issue with the poll is that it doesn't take into account people being part of multiple religions at the same time.

How does one do that?

Chinese Religion, Shintoism, many parts of Sub-Saharan Africa.

[Kenmoria]

One issue with the poll is that it doesn't take into account people being part of multiple religions at the same time.

How does one do that?

I have a friend who is a Buddhist and a Christian at the same time. He believes both in the Holy Trinity and in reincarnation/karma. Though many people, including myself, found it confusing, religion is a thing that someone can do whatever they like with because, due to its nature, there are no concrete rules.

[United Islamic Commonwealth]

How does one do that?

I have a friend who is a Buddhist and a Christian at the same time. He believes both in the Holy Trinity and in reincarnation/karma. Though many people, including myself, found it confusing, religion is a thing that someone can do whatever they like with because, due to its nature, there are no concrete rules.

I mean, in the end you're gonna conflict and end up being one religion. Like, there's a point where you cease mixing religions and end up being your own thing. Like, your friend is probably more a Christian with Buddhist influences than anything else. Or something completely otherwise/new. Bible is pretty clear on the whole one life thing. Hebrews 9:27

[United Islamic Commonwealth]

How does one do that?

Chinese Religion, Shintoism, many parts of Sub-Saharan Africa.

That's more syncretism than actually being all those different faiths.

[Democratic Communist Federation]

This mine is for debate, not a critic. You could find association between things, example given: are the ones of christian education supposed to lean toward agnosticism?
(so I ll answer agnostic, by the way, ignoring the "cultural lag" as the pool dictates)

As a sociologist, I appreciate your use of Wm. Ogburn's term culture lag. However, it is difficult to be that nuanced in an online poll. If I were designing a scientific survey (which, as a sociologist, I have), then I would make the categories more detailed and elaborate.

[Democratic Communist Federation]

One issue with the poll is that it doesn't take into account people being part of multiple religions at the same time.

That is true, but allowing multiple choices would cause some degree of confusion. For instance, no one would have any way of knowing whether the selections were made by one person or by multiple individuals.

[Norway Realm]

To briefly summarize my metaphysical-philosophical development over the course of my life, I was raised in a primarily secular non-religious household although my father was nominally Christian, but never attended church services or aligned with a specific denomination. Around age 15 I began researching and reading literature on a myriad of occult topics and developed a scholastic interest in the esoteric philosophies (Thelmea-Crowley, alchemy, runology, Vamachara Tantra chaos-magick, etc). Into my junior year of high school I dabbling more into the arcane "dark arts" into the Satanic scene and read LaVey's content, principally the Satanic Bible. I've identified primarily with Satanism and have developed contacts with other "Enlightened Epicureans/Egoists" involved with the CoS, and independent practitioners on an online forum who corresponded with my beliefs. Around the early months of 2016, I began divulging more intensively into my ancestral religion (I'm a national born and ethnic Norwegian) of Norse Polytheism and reading the sagas. I currently most align with the Ariosophic and Left-Hand Paths.

[Estonland]

I think of myself as a deist however I follow some tenets of Alawite Islam and Tengriism

[Volkegoth]

Agnostic atheism is also sometimes called weak atheism. Strong atheism would include the new atheism of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and others.

That is the good Atheism. We need strong resolute beliefs and steadfast believers if we wish to compete against religion in its many forms.

Why the hell do you care what people believe? I don't care, and I'm a Anglican Christian (might be converting to Russian Orthodoxy soon). Why does an atheist care more than me what people believe?