POLL: Your Religious affiliation...

[Chizzang]

Please take a moment and select the closest thing to where you are right now in your life...
And please add as many annoying commen

[D1B]

Left out a key option:

Pantheism - the belief that the universe (or nature as the totality of everything) is identical with divinity,[1] or that everything composes an all-encompassing, immanent God. Pantheists are not arrogant and thus do not believe in a distinct personal, ridiculous, silly or anthropomorphic god.

Queefs, stick to snarky and self deprecating comments.

[travelinman67]

Left out a key option:

Pantheism - the belief that the universe (or nature as the totality of everything) is identical with divinity,[1] or that everything composes an all-encompassing, immanent God. Pantheists are not arrogant and thus do not believe in a distinct personal, ridiculous, silly or anthropomorphic god.

Hippie Unitarian...aka, "I am God".

Fits you perfectly.

[Ivytalk]

I chose "moderately faithful." I still regularly attend church in the denomination that I grew up in, and I believe in the creed of that faith and appreciate the traditions of its liturgy. However, I don't believe in the "inerrancy of Scripture," particularly the Old Testament. I'm more of a New Testament guy.

[JoltinJoe]

Option 1 is ambiguous.

Does it mean that everything in the Bible is literally true?

Does it mean that the Bible is the Word of God, allegorical in many respects, while representing and recounting an evolving relationship between mankind and its Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer?

Also, the Old Testament contains the civil law of Moses, which is not the law of God, at least according to Christianity since its earliest days.

[HI54UNI]

Another option - I don't care but I'm not a douchebag that has to make fun of other people's beliefs.

[kalm]

Baptized and confirmed Lutheran.

Now I'm somewhere between Wanna be (but I'm not necessarily searching for a "religion") and agnostic (but I don't think discussing it is futile, rather I like discussing religion quite a bit).

Like D, I find pantheism and all the nature based religions that fit under pantheism's umbrella very interesting

[Ibanez]

Baptized and confirmed Lutheran.

Now I'm somewhere between Wanna be (but I'm not necessarily searching for a "religion") and agnostic (but I don't think discussing it is futile, rather I like discussing religion quite a bit).

Like D, I find pantheism and all the nature based religions that fit under pantheism's umbrella very interesting

Swap out "Luthern" for "Catholic" and that's me. But i don't go seeking any god or religion. Deism is interesting to me.

[Pwns]

On certain aspects of belief I am "religious lite" and sometimes maybe sacrilegious. In other aspects I probably seem like a fundamentalist, and won't apologize for it..

[kalm]

Baptized and confirmed Lutheran.

Now I'm somewhere between Wanna be (but I'm not necessarily searching for a "religion") and agnostic (but I don't think discussing it is futile, rather I like discussing religion quite a bit).

Like D, I find pantheism and all the nature based religions that fit under pantheism's umbrella very interesting

Swap out "Luthern" for "Catholic" and that's me. But i don't go seeking any god or religion. Deism is interesting to me.

Yeah, deism might describe me best.

[Ivytalk]

Swap out "Luthern" for "Catholic" and that's me. But i don't go seeking any god or religion. Deism is interesting to me.

Yeah, deism might describe me best.

We'll just start calling you the Voltaire of the Palouse.

[LeadBolt]

The first option is virtually impossible.

If you believe the Bible is the Word of God, then you most likely believe what it says in Romans 3:23 "All have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God", you understand no one can be completely faithful.

I've never truly understood what "Bible Inerrancy" is. There are many forms of literature in the Bible including allegories, parables, and symbolic portrayal of events.

I consider the Bible God's Word, but certainly don't understand it all, and believe no one else can either. I consider myself faithful, but I'm not completely faithful and believe no one is capable of being completely faithful.

Christianity, imho is about God's grace through the atoning death and resurrection of Jesus, the Messiah.

Constructive criticism is appreciated, disparagement is expected.

[andy7171]

I would have liked a "I believe and don't want to talk about it. And neither should you."

[kalm]

I would have liked a "I believe and don't want to talk about it. And neither should you."

Why?

Talking about it and even having challenged either strengthens your faith or forces some perhaps uncomfortable but important questions.

[Grizalltheway]

I would have liked a "I believe and don't want to talk about it. And neither should you."

Why?

Talking about it and even having challenged either strengthens your faith or forces some perhaps uncomfortable but important questions.

Nah. Much easier to stick your head in the sand and not upset your parents.

[JoltinJoe]

Isn't Deism an incomplete answer/process?

[Ivytalk]

Isn't Deism an incomplete answer/process?

JJ, I know you're dying to answer your own question, but don't go all JSO on us.

[JoltinJoe]

Isn't Deism an incomplete answer/process?

JJ, I know you're dying to answer your own question, but don't go all JSO on us.

Former Deist. Pretty much described me in my later high school and early college years.

I will say this. I find it ironic that so many people who so frequently cite Occam's Razor don't see the evident simplicity in a god who takes your form and explains everything to you. Isn't that the perfect God?

[93henfan]

God damn this thread!

[andy7171]

Why?

Talking about it and even having challenged either strengthens your faith or forces some perhaps uncomfortable but important questions.

Nah. Much easier to stick your head in the sand and not upset your parents.

This is why Kalms. The world is full of assholes. It a relationship between me and him. I'm living my life and struggling. Raising my girls as best I can. My dad was heartbroken when I refused to be confirmed and elated when I did when I was 23. I try to be like him everyday. But fail. My faith keeps me going to be better. Good enough?

[93henfan]

My dad was heartbroken when I refused to be confirmed

That's crazy! You should never spurn the mafia like that. You're lucky you didn't get capped in the back of the grape. You a brave mofo!

[Grizalltheway]

Nah. Much easier to stick your head in the sand and not upset your parents.

This is why Kalms. The world is full of assholes. It a relationship between me and him. I'm living my life and struggling. Raising my girls as best I can. My dad was heartbroken when I refused to be confirmed and elated when I did when I was 23. I try to be like him everyday. But fail. My faith keeps me going to be better. Good enough?

Ignored.

[Grizalltheway]

Nah. Much easier to stick your head in the sand and not upset your parents.

This is why Kalms. The world is full of assholes. It a relationship between me and him. I'm living my life and struggling. Raising my girls as best I can. My dad was heartbroken when I refused to be confirmed and elated when I did when I was 23. I try to be like him everyday. But fail. My faith keeps me going to be better. Good enough?

Oh, and this is why Catholics are scum. They'll disown their own flesh and blood for wanting to think for themselves and base their existence on something other than a superstitious cult. One step above Muslins.

[JoltinJoe]

This is why Kalms. The world is full of assholes. It a relationship between me and him. I'm living my life and struggling. Raising my girls as best I can. My dad was heartbroken when I refused to be confirmed and elated when I did when I was 23. I try to be like him everyday. But fail. My faith keeps me going to be better. Good enough?

Oh, and this is why Catholics are scum. They'll disown their own flesh and blood for wanting to think for themselves and base their existence on something other than a superstitious cult. One step above Muslins.

[Ivytalk]

JJ, I know you're dying to answer your own question, but don't go all JSO on us.

Former Deist. Pretty much described me in my later high school and early college years.

I will say this. I find it ironic that so many people who so frequently cite Occam's Razor don't see the evident simplicity in a god who takes your form and explains everything to you. Isn't that the perfect God?

Spot on. Did the Fordham experience help you shed your Deist phase?