Your religious beliefs
- Thread starter Rom's Sehlat
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I'm kind of glad to see someone sharing this mindset. It's something my Dad (a firebreathing Catholic up to the day he died) never understood, nor did he ever try to understand. When he would berate me during my college and later years for not going to church every Sunday, I would quote Matthew 6:6 -- "But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you." For me, my faith is an intensely personal thing. It's not something that I wish to push upon others, nor is it something that I really care to share with others. The Holy See would certainly disagree with me, but I don't need to go to church every Sunday and sing "Glory to God in the Highest" in order to have a spiritual life. I pray in solitude, between myself and God.
For the record, my wife and I are Protestants (I like to joke that I'm a recovering Catholic), in the United Church of Christ.
None; I'm an atheist.
Jews don't count, eh?
I'm a Roman Catholic. I don't practice my faith anymore, so really I'm an atheist Catholic. Or a Catholic atheist. It depends on my mood.
I'm a Roman Catholic. I don't practice my faith anymore, so really I'm an atheist Catholic. Or a Catholic atheist. It depends on my mood.
What? No separate category for us Quantum Presbyterians?
No option for Pastafarian?
I'll sue.
I'll sue.
Can I ask then, which church do you go to (if you do go).
I only ask because I share the same mindset. I find the divisions unnecessary, and so I try to go to a different church each week to get the best out of all of them.
However, being quite lazy, I usually end up going to the Catholic cathedral.
Other: atheist.
Bias in the poll? I don't get the feeling that it's intentional, but sometimes that's the worst kind...
Bias in the poll? I don't get the feeling that it's intentional, but sometimes that's the worst kind...
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Other: Evil, wicked devourer of all that is good. Mostly pie.
I grew up Catholic, but I left a few years back for lots of reasons. I'm now a high-church ELCA flavored Lutheran. I do however, agree with those who say that denomination shouldn't be that important, so long as their fundamental belief is that of loving God and neighbor, and not fleecing the faithful to save them from some goofy-assed, heretical money grubbing construct (like teh_Rapturez).
This.
Atheist. Mostly though, I am anti-religion as a whole.
I don't think of myself as 'Protestant', in some ways it seems like a denomination in itself.
I go to the same church, when I go, which usually ends up being every other week, although it changes. Sometimes I go two weeks in a row, sometimes not at all for three weeks.
I don't go to Catholic or CoE, because I don't personally like the traditionalist way in which things are done - Read words out, listen to the priest read out set words, etc. I just find it boring and uninspired to be honest. Too formal.
The church I usually go to is an Evangelical church.
Well, that's somewhere along the lines of my own thinking, and that's partly why I haven't been for ages. That and 10am in the morning is far too early on your day off.
I also disagree with some of the things in the church my family goes too, and it feels so twee and boring. (Sorry, Jay)
Other: Jewish
If anyone wants to redo this poll, I'd suggest also including Judaism, Sikhism, Taoism, B'ahai, folk religions, and a category for non-practicing.
If anyone wants to redo this poll, I'd suggest also including Judaism, Sikhism, Taoism, B'ahai, folk religions, and a category for non-practicing.
