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Moving from Dakka Polls: threads about non-wargaming topics should go in the Off-Topic sub-forum. Thanks ~ Manchu

I'm just curious what the religious makeup of DakkaDakka is, so I made a poll. For me personally I'm irreligious I don't believe in any form of religion, in fact I don't believe in the supernatural either so I guess I'm a naturalist as well that being said I don't have any problems with other people

being religious or believing in the supernatural so long as they don't use it as an excuse for abusing others.

Agnostic, I don't see it as possible to prove that a creator exists or doesn't exist. < I tend to lean forward to a creator not existing though this is just my thought and thus doesn't prove anything really...so agnostic.

 Ardaric_Vaanes wrote:
Agnostic, I don't see it as possible to prove that a creator exists or doesn't exist. < I tend to lean forward to a creator not existing though this is just my thought and thus doesn't prove anything really...so agnostic.

The reason I don't believe in any religion is because a lot of the stories sound too fantastic to really be true, too much magic involved.

Atheist. I'm an atheist because I see our culture and race is the macro sense. As in, current religions are just another phase in the evolving beliefs of mankind. My realization of this made me also realize that soon our religions will fade and new ones will replace them. After reaching this mindset I couldn't continue worshipping god in earnest. I

I'd say I'm an agnostic with strong leanings toward atheism. I have no evidence that any religion is correct, and, since they all exist to a certain extent beyond the scope of observation, there's no real way to disprove them, so I can't say they're not all false. By the same token, my default position has to be that none of them are true.

I definitely find myself rallying against religions when their practitioners seem to believe that their teachings include the words "...and you can use this as an excuse to be a dick to people."

As a subject of study, Buddhism is particularly interesting to me, though it feels almost more philosophical than actually religious in nature.

I'm not sure this thread will end well...

Baptized and raised Catholic (currently in a Catholic university), now very much irreligious.

I think people should believe in what they like, as long as they don't mess with other peoples' beliefs either.

If I had a religion or philosophy though, I'd lean towards Zen or Taoism.

Christian, via Roman Catholicism.

I was atheist for a good period of my life, but something just called me to start reading up on Catholicism a few years ago and I've since returned to the Church. Really glad I came back.

 djones520 wrote:
I'm not sure this thread will end well...

Nah, we're good here. We might actually make it to the second page.

 daedalus wrote:

 djones520 wrote:
I'm not sure this thread will end well...

Nah, we're good here. We might actually make it to the second page.

I'd give it 3 pages.

 daedalus wrote:

 djones520 wrote:
I'm not sure this thread will end well...

Nah, we're good here. We might actually make it to the second page.

That would be nice. As an Atheist, nothing annoys me more then seeing my fellow Atheists go out of their way to pick fights.

Christian.

We have had a couple good religion threads that managed to stay respectful and had people asking good questions and giving good answers for quite a few pages. It's possible as long as all sides stay away from "trollolol" and a smug sense of entitlement.

Why does Taoism have to be other? I am offended for no particular reason! It isn't what I picked, I just want people to pay attention to me.

I'm agnostic, but I'll be the first to sign up once a deity rides down on a thunderbolt to smite those who oppose him/her.

Christian. My beliefs have never changed but over time I have found ways to adapt certain unknowns to match scientific thought and theory, (i.e. I believe in 7 day creation and have reasoned ways that it would fit with evolution.)

I'm a Pastafarian. All hail the Flying Spaghetti Monster!

How can you not love a religion based on pasta and rum, who's holy day is International talk like a pirate day?

While I do celebrate as the FSM dictates, I am technically Jewish. I get together with some fellow bad jews a few times a year and celebrate Hanukah and Passover. Although our seders would make anyone remotely orthodox cringe.

So mostly "non religious" but I clicked "other"

Help me Jesus! Help me Jewish God! Help me Allah! AAAAAHHH! Help me Tom Cruise! Tom Cruise, use your witchcraft on me to get the fire off me!


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(Couldnt resist =])

Okay, maybe just two.

 TheDiscoSpider wrote:
Okay, maybe just two.

Oh no my friend, those posts are on the first page.

Peregrinist, because I am the obvious One True God and you shall have no other gods before Me.

Atheist, because there isn't even the slightest bit of evidence or reason to believe that any god exists, or that any known religion is anything more than wishful thinking.

Anti-theist, because the whole mess is incredibly harmful and needs to be opposed.

(So what if there's a contradiction in my beliefs. It's one of the ineffable mysteries of Faith in Peregrinism, which makes it even more true.)

Militant Agnostic

 Ahtman wrote:

 TheDiscoSpider wrote:
Okay, maybe just two.

Oh no my friend, those posts are on the first page.

I hope we see two, but that's my faith in humanity talking.

I should be under other then, since I'm also pastafarian.

 kronk wrote:
Militant Agnostic

I don't know and neither do you, lol.

I've just discovered I'm an Ominist, I didn't even know there was a term for what i believed I just used to call myself polytheistic or polyreligious. Dakka taught me something , well feth me.

I seriously believe that anyone can believe in anything they want as long as it doesn't affect other people. This makes me dislike militant theists of any type , including atheists.
Alot of militant athiests could certainly use some religion to teach them tolerance (in my younger and dumber years i was militantly atheist).

Why do people get the urge to say "I don't believe in anything so I'm going to gak all over what someone else believes". I'm finding my tolerance level is going up as i get older (which is probably the opposite of most people) , though the bad side of this is if i hit 80 and someone tells me the world is ending I'll probably roll over and say "cool".


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 kronk wrote:
Militant Agnostic

I think this post wins the thread already , wd mr kronk. "I believe in some random creator, not your allah or your Ptah , HOW CAN YOU BE SO STUPID!"

Bullockist wrote:
I've just discovered I'm an Ominist, I didn't even know there was a term for what i believed I just used to call myself polytheistic or polyreligious. Dakka taught me something , well feth me.

I kind of think Omnism would be cool, as I would like to believe that if it were true the afterlife would be you sort of wait at some office type place where they set you up with an appointment with a councilor and you go though a catalog selecting which religion's after life you want so maybe you

want Valhalla, Mount Olympus, Reincarnations, Catholic heaven, Protestant heaven, removal of your consciousness, come back as a ghost or something else.

 Cheesecat wrote:

 kronk wrote:
Militant Agnostic

I don't know and neither do you, lol.

Bazinga!

Raised Catholic, considered seminary, now U/U leaning towards Deism, dating an Alexandrian Wiccan, for twenty odd years dated an amorphous Christian of Mormon upbringing who is music director for a Methodist church.

One of the players in my very first D&D game, back in '76, was a Catholic priest*, but the game took place in the basement of the Unitarian Universalist church in Portsmouth New Hampshire.

The Auld Grump

* Some people have horror stories about their priests when they were children... mine introduced me to wargaming, roleplaying games, and mimeograph machines... he has much to answer for! God bless you Father Semineau, wherever you may be.

Pastafarian

Misanthropic Atheist.

Catholic. I'm being confirmed on the eighteenth.