What Religion are you?

[Sirrus_Asura]

Does it matter what anyone believes? It doesn't change a damn thing lol.


On another note;I was driving home one day and listening to talk radio(bawww), and there was a Christian guy on the radio astonished that Christians statistically had a higher approval of torture then Non-Christians. Its kinda funny that he expects Christians to have a higher regard for life.

[Aquilo86]

Christian. Rather sad that I have to say this but I'd rather reserve 1-2 hours a week and being a generaly good person than chance going to hell. Believe or not.

and this is why organized religion is evil

[Sirrus_Asura]

I think its rather sad that you need to be threatened with eternal damnation to be a good person. Moral High Ground Wut?

[Kerberoz]

If you believe in an all-knowing god, don't you realize that he'd know you're only doing it to avoid "hell" and send you there anyway? Pascal's Wager is an infantile logical fallacy.

[Neosutra]

If you believe in an all-knowing god, don't you realize that he'd know you're only doing it to avoid "hell" and send you there anyway? Pascal's Wager is an infantile logical fallacy.

Not to mention Pascal's Wager doesnt specify which god to follow. It really is the weakest theist argument.

[Meat]

Not flaming religion, but the dietary thing has always puzzled me. Why so particular about pork, or sea arthropods?

I mean... I guess I could understand all arthropods, or all invertebrates, since they're thought of as "lower" life-forms, but why just the sea ones? I assume you can eat a grasshopper without violating your religion, right? Maybe it was due to people in biblical times constantly eating the wrong ones, or letting them spoil and getting sick a lot?

Now pork... really makes no sense from a practical standpoint. It's so easy to preserve and is almost always cooked through, plus the animals themselves are low maintenance compared to cows or sheep. It's called "dirty" but there are far dirtier animals not banned from consumption. Maybe because the flesh mildly resembles a human's?

And wtf is with kosher salt? Not knocking it, because it's great for cooking with, but I highly doubt that iodine was described in ancient texts.

Only meat can be unkosher, kosher salt is just a brand

[EternityEnd]

I would participate in this poll if you correctly labeled the parameters.

Atheism and Agnosticism are not religions. I think a more prudent way of posing the question would have been: "Are you religious? If so, which religion do you practice?", keeping the poll options. But no, Firas must be woefully ignorant!

lol. I'm sure Neo already brought that up though, I didn't read the thread.

[Atreides]

Kosher Salt refers to the size of the salt granules, it should more accurately be called "koshering salt" for its use in making meat kosher. The laws of kashrut dictate that all blood be drained out of the meat prior to cooking, large granuled "kosher" salt tends to draw out more liquid than ordinary table salt.

I think kosher salt also lacks iodine as well, but yeah.

[Amastacia]

Where's the option for "faithless"?

That's why I voted other.

If I had to get technical, I guess I'd consider myself apatheistic, but faithless is also pretty close.

I believe the question "is there a god (or gods)?" is pointless and academic, the answer is ultimately unimportant.

I believe more harm than good is done by taking it on faith that a divine being of any benevolence exists and is interested in us. There is a lot more circumstantial evidence that such is not the case than that such is the case, regardless of the absolute answer to the question of the existence/nonexistence of any supreme being(s).

[Knyghtmayre]

Because it says nothing of your belief?

If you know about the concept you believe in it or you don't. Saying you don't know is secondary. Belief is a light switch in this case. You believe in god or you don't, no middle ground.

How fucking stupid is this statement? Saying that you have to believe before you can admit knowing or not knowing is pretty stupid considering any rational person needs facts/proof to believe anything. Belief is secondary, and requires you to go through the knowledge-check step in the process that would lead anyone with even the smallest bit of a scientific mind to Agnosticism long before an actual belief.

"I don't know" is a fucking answer, deal with it.

[Senoska]

If you believe in an all-knowing god, don't you realize that he'd know you're only doing it to avoid "hell" and send you there anyway? Pascal's Wager is an infantile logical fallacy.

If he's an all knowing god by knowing the way you live your life he pretty much forces you into hell.

Omniscients is a paradox with free will.

[Ryuumaru]

Allllllahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh akhbar. (To my niggas in FR <3)

I'm originally German-protestant (christian) on my father's side. But I don't really follow the religion, nor care to put god ahead of any of my daily hassles. lol

Still think we need to smash the jahoods though. w

[Chen]

Because it says nothing of your belief?

If you know about the concept you believe in it or you don't. Saying you don't know is secondary. Belief is a light switch in this case. You believe in god or you don't, no middle ground.

this is pretty damn stupid

I'm raised as a christian, but i don't know if there really is a god. clearly there is a middle ground

[Kerberoz]

this is pretty damn stupid

I'm raised as a christian, but i don't know if there really is a god. clearly there is a middle ground

You're an agnostic theist, then.

[Senoska]

How fucking stupid is this statement? Saying that you have to believe before you can admit knowing or not knowing is pretty stupid considering any rational person needs facts/proof to believe anything. Belief is secondary, and requires you to go through the knowledge-check step in the process that would lead anyone with even the smallest bit of a scientific mind to Agnosticism long before an actual belief.

"I don't know" is a fucking answer, deal with it.

No. The question is not "Do you know there is a god?" its "Do you believe in one." Assuming you understand the question (IE: What a god is) you're bound to believe one way or another. You can't not know about it because you do know. Agnostic and gnostic is referring to know if you're certain about your choice.

Ignoring those words, tell me how you can be unsure? Is a light on or off, or shit, it might be half on. Wait...That's still on, isn't it...

edit:

You're an agnostic theist, then.

this.

[Izzy]

If I want this forum to automatically replace the word "religion" with "I just made a shitty post", does that make me agnostic?

[Stromgarde]

Every time this question gets asked, I find myself wishing that the question had been 'what is your attitude toward religion' rather than 'what is your religion' so we could save ourselves 5 pages of semantics.

[Senoska]

Every time this question gets asked, I find myself wishing that the question had been 'what is your attitude toward religion' rather than 'what is your religion' so we could save ourselves 5 pages of semantics.

Or just remove a statement of knowledge from a discussion about belief.

[Correction]

Has seno been beating Mirriam's Dictionary on everyone's forehead for several consecutive pages then claim a page with a misspelling of 'omniscience' and a mangling of the word 'paradox?'

[Knyghtmayre]

Without knowledge, there is no grounds to build a belief on. If you can't know that a god exists, then you can't know that you believe or disbelieve in its existence without being irrationally and hypocritically wrong, which is kind of the whole point, right?

"I don't know" is a fucking answer, deal with it.

And no, Seno hasn't been reciting the dictionary, but rather making up definitions to however they want them to sound.