What's your religion ???

[Shemtov]

I don't buy that. .......A God can't just pop out of no where IMO.

You're forgetting that the whole definition of the Abrahamic God is a God beyond all natural laws (because he created them). The whole idea is is that he's beyond the rule that everything needs a source.

 

[Art_of_Crime]

If you put a gun to my head I guess I would say Buddhism.
Soto school Zen to be specific. Though I consider it more of a path/way of life/way of thinking than a religion. It offers no "answers" in the conventional western way of thinking.

 

[Llama_Shepherd]

I don't buy that. .......A God can't just pop out of no where IMO. I view Christian God and Jesus as two people, two Gods.

Well that's all well and good, but the Christian Deity is one being. The Christian argument is God is like a shamrock, a shamrock is one plant with three leaves, tear any leaf it is not a shamrock. It is a god who is infinite, he is beyond time, he doesn't appear, he just is. Considering actual scientific theories are being developed to replace the Big Bang, to allow for one infinite dimension, time, it could be theoretically possible for something to just always exist. A real thing.

And this comes from an atheist.

 

[RetrogradeOrbit]

I don't subscribe to any religion. But I am not an atheist. Colour me agnostic, that way if there is something, I hopefully won't burn for eternity.

On a UK census in the early 2000's there was a box for religion. I put Jedi...
No really, I did. Apparently so did umpteen thousand others, but the Census Bureau would not add it to their recognised religions list.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I always find it strange when people feel the need to bash other people's religions in these threads.

 

[Llama_Shepherd]

No, they did, my friend is still a Jedi.

 

[RetrogradeOrbit]

That's interesting. My understanding is that it was disallowed, for fairly obvious reasons. The Government does not like having the p**s taken out of them as a rule.

 

[Llama_Shepherd]

Yeah, if it was just a couple people that put it, there'd be a £1000 fine. But because of the amount of people who said it they pretty much had to accept it, its not an official religion, but after all, what defines a religion. So next time you go into a shop, you can have your hood up for religious reasons.

 

[RetrogradeOrbit]

I just did a bit of research and this is what I found on Wikipedia. I hasten to add I checked some other sources to validate the numbers...

England and Wales

In England and Wales 390,127 people (almost 0.8%) stated their religion as Jedi on their 2001 Census forms, surpassing Sikhism, Judaism, and Buddhism, and making it the fourth largest reported religion in the countries.
In the 2001 Census 2.6% of the population of Brighton claimed to be Jedi. The percentages of religious affiliations were:

Christian: 70.0%
No religion: 14.7%
Chose not to respond: 7.8%
Muslim: 3.1%
Hindu: 2.1%
Jedi: 0.7%

Or read http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1589133.stm

Made me chuckle.

 

[random_havoc]

I don't buy that. .......A God can't just pop out of no where IMO. I view Christian God and Jesus as two people, two Gods.

Your first sentence was already responded to quite nicely. In regards to your second, the Bible has numerous references that make it very clear that Jesus is God, the Holy Spirit is God, and that God the Father is God, and also that there is only one God. Hence the trinity as someone mentioned above.

 

[Prison Mike]

I'm Hindu

 

[Godsfireworks]

I'm a Christian. But I'm studying to major in Geology. the two seem to have bashed heads through history, so I'm gonna see how it works out. I'm excited.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Yeah, if it was just a couple people that put it, there'd be a £1000 fine. But because of the amount of people who said it they pretty much had to accept it, its not an official religion, but after all, what defines a religion. So next time you go into a shop, you can have your hood up for religious reasons.

Be careful. You know what happened the last time a government got mad at its jedis.

 

[Art_of_Crime]

Be careful. You know what happened the last time a government got mad at its jedis.

I only wish our government was cool enough to have Jedis.

 

[hopefuldreamer]

I just did a bit of research and this is what I found on Wikipedia. I hasten to add I checked some other sources to validate the numbers...

England and Wales

In England and Wales 390,127 people (almost 0.8%) stated their religion as Jedi on their 2001 Census forms, surpassing Sikhism, Judaism, and Buddhism, and making it the fourth largest reported religion in the countries.
In the 2001 Census 2.6% of the population of Brighton claimed to be Jedi. The percentages of religious affiliations were:

Christian: 70.0%
No religion: 14.7%
Chose not to respond: 7.8%
Muslim: 3.1%
Hindu: 2.1%
Jedi: 0.7%

Or read http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1589133.stm

Made me chuckle.

That's awesome.

 

[Sloth7d]

Dammit! No Siths!?

 

[Changeling]

Agnostic

 

[hammerhedd11]

Christian

 

[Mr.Webs]

I was raised as a Christian pretty much, always had angels and crucifixes in my house, but I had a slight crisis of faith about two years ago. I just couldn't get behind it anymore, the more I read about the faith and it's foundation. But then I happened across Buddhism, specifically Zen. It really helped me accept a lot of things I had been fighting against, helped me say things I'd been only thinking for a long while.

So...I'm a Zen Buddhist, I guess. But I try to take a bit from every religion and apply it the best I can.

 

[Hellion]

But I try to take a bit from every religion and apply it the best I can.

Me at the moment...I've been contemplating a lot of things recently...

 

[Pink Ranger]

Dammit! No Siths!?

Of course not. There can only be two at the same time.

 

[Crazy Quilt]

I'm a Muslim and I'm sticking to it.

I would shout "ALLAHU AKBAR" but then people will think I'm a 'turrist'. So I'll just say SubhanAllah brother!

 

[Crazy Quilt]

Ok. I don't read much on this, but Is Allah and Christian God one and same? I view them as separate Gods. To be honest...it makes sense to me of many Gods cause who made the Christian God? I doubt "one" God just came to be.

Ugh. Really?

Well, Allahs not part of a trinity, so he (and the Jewish God) are not the same as the Christian God.

Yes and no. The Godhead of the Trinity, the Father, is the same God as Yahweh/Allah. But yes the Christian concept of God is different from the Jewish and Islamic concept. Unless you're a Unitarian because they don't believe in the Trinity. I don't THINK Mormons and Jehovas Witnesses do, either but I'm not certain on that.

 

[Thundarr]

I did not vote, as my religion is not listed on your poll.

If you must know, I'm a Wiccan.

 

[Secret Fawful]

WHY DO YOU WANT TO KNOW MY RELIGION!? Is it because you want to PERSECUTE ME!? I BET YOU'D ALL FEED ME TO LIONS IF YOU COULD.