# Curious - how many religious non-christian, non-pagan dopers are there? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 11, 2002, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-how-many-religious-non-christian-non-pagan-dopers-are-there/131823 "2002-10-11T14:32:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-how-many-religious-non-christian-non-pagan-dopers-are-there/131823/21 "2002-10-11T21:38:38Z")
Former Christian, now agnostic theist. Boy is _that_ ever a long explanation:) ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-how-many-religious-non-christian-non-pagan-dopers-are-there/131823/22 "2002-10-11T22:59:19Z")
More or less a Buddhist. I don’t know from “religious”–I usually just say my temporal lobes are prone to minor seizures, but that inspires funny looks. ---
**Author:** ![Lodrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@Lodrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lodrain)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2002, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-how-many-religious-non-christian-non-pagan-dopers-are-there/131823/23 "2002-10-12T00:51:29Z")
Ehh… I haven’t a clue what I’d be called. Maybe a devoted pantheist with a creative streak. I have a very absorbing belief in a higher power that could be called ‘God’ and that this power is in no way seperate from the universe – this power _is_ the universe, and thus, everything is ‘God’ – we are ‘God’, this computer is ‘God’, the kitty on my lap is ‘God’ I do respect and love this deity dearly and have a very deep set of beliefs regarding ‘God’, but I am technically part of no religion, unless I call my beliefs my own personal system of faith. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2002, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-how-many-religious-non-christian-non-pagan-dopers-are-there/131823/24 "2002-10-12T01:30:09Z")
Polls belong in **IMHO**. I’ll move this for you. * * * **Cajun Man** - SDMB Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Lost\_In\_Reality](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Lost\_In\_Reality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lost_In_Reality)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2002, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-how-many-religious-non-christian-non-pagan-dopers-are-there/131823/25 "2002-10-12T06:57:14Z")
One more Jew checking in. Though I’m conservadox with slight leanings towards deism (I know it makes no sense) so I’m not as religious as the others. ---
**Author:** ![Osakadave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@Osakadave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osakadave)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2002, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-how-many-religious-non-christian-non-pagan-dopers-are-there/131823/26 "2002-10-12T11:38:11Z")
Sorry Cajun Man. ☹ Somehow I thought I had posted this in IMHO. (out of curiosity, where was it? I can’t find it elsewhere.) Thanks for those who pointed out the “neo-pagan” defitition I intended. Some additional questions. ivylass: I understood neo-pagans and wiccan to be more or less the same. I’d be interested to know the difference. For the various UUs, deist, and theist: I understood these to be of Christian origin, historically (especially UUism). When did they move away from that/ ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2002, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-how-many-religious-non-christian-non-pagan-dopers-are-there/131823/27 "2002-10-12T12:56:52Z")
I occasionally attend a feminist church in NYC, but I’m basically a non-believer in a male “God” and especially any religion which does not treat women and men equally. ---
**Author:** ![Stentor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Stentor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stentor)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2002, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-how-many-religious-non-christian-non-pagan-dopers-are-there/131823/28 "2002-10-12T15:54:01Z")
Zen Buddhist. ---
**Author:** ![Osakadave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@Osakadave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osakadave)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2002, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-how-many-religious-non-christian-non-pagan-dopers-are-there/131823/29 "2002-10-12T18:27:18Z")
Oh, and for the record, I’m Buddhist. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2002, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-how-many-religious-non-christian-non-pagan-dopers-are-there/131823/30 "2002-10-12T18:33:18Z")
Same as **Lodrain**. ---
**Author:** ![curwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@curwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curwin)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2002, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-how-many-religious-non-christian-non-pagan-dopers-are-there/131823/31 "2002-10-12T19:04:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by zev\_steinhardt \* > \*\*No official census, but there are a number of religious Jews on these boards. Among them are (in no particular order): > > **cmkeller** , **Keeve** , **CK Dexter Havn** , **IzzyR** , **RedNaxela** , **Gila B** , **Captain Amazing** , **sdimbert** , **MHand** and probably a few other whom I hope will forgive me for momentarily forgetting them. > > Zev Steinhardt \*\* Forgive you, ey? ---
**Author:** ![Stellablue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@Stellablue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stellablue)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2002, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-how-many-religious-non-christian-non-pagan-dopers-are-there/131823/32 "2002-10-12T19:10:35Z")
One Buddhist here. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-how-many-religious-non-christian-non-pagan-dopers-are-there/131823.md?page=1)