Celtic-Pagan-Anostic-Hedonist-with a strong tendancy for walking in the woods at odd hours of night…
Non-denominational Pagan.
Common-or-garden variety non-religious. Definitely non-christian, probably secular humanist.
I laugh at fundamentalists.
Misanthropic Nihilist here.
Ok, so I’m just an atheist who gets annoyed with people sometimes.
Militant atheist, and living in the “10 commandments in every school and a prayer before every football game” bible belt. I have found no reason to believe that, 5,000 years from now, our descendants won’t find Christianity every bit as backward and quaint as we find our own volcano-worshipping ancestors.
Catholic, though I’m still a little confused about my beliefs and technically Catholics are Christians too but anyway, if it came right down to it I’d just say non-religious.
Kitty
unitarian universalist humanist here
Western Unorthodox.
Semi-closeted guilty atheist.
[sub]I have only directly shared my non-belief with a few people, but the clueful ones among the rest should be picking up it up any time now. And sometimes my Methodist guilt creeps up behind me.[/sub]
-mdf
Atheist who’s a big fan of the Tao Te Ching, but not quite enough to consider myself a Taoist.
Wiccan here, thankyewverymuch.
Hey, Phil, where’s this bet? Couldja post a link?
Are ex-Catholics more apt to be bitter then ex-other-sorts-of-Christians? Or does it just seem that way?
I dunno what I am, but I’m sure as hell not a Christian, and I get more than a little pissed off at Christians who assume I’m one o’ them, too…
Atheist
Since when is “Christian” limited to only Protestant? That attitude sucks. What about the Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and Coptics?
I was raised Catholic, but left it in college. Went on a magical mystery tour of Hinduism, Yoga, Golden Dawn Magick, Hebrew Kabbalah, Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana, Sufism, Shakti Tantra, Taoism, Cannabis, LSD, Discordianism, and whatnot (while occasionally hobnobbing with Crowleyans, Wiccans and Unitarians), for several years.
My faith in God (or Goddess, two names for the same thing) is now stronger than ever, what with all I’ve been through in my life, and it keeps getting stronger. I am very happily religious deep down in my heart, I like all the religions and see the common essence they all share, but fundamentalists of all religions gross me out. Having to confront fundies is a major turnoff. So more and more I am withdrawing to the invocation and contemplation of God within my own heart, becoming more and more interior, less and less exterior. I do follow a definite religion, but don’t want to tell it here. The most interesting thing is being in just one religion yourself but liking and accepting all the others at the same time. I still do Yoga, but then Yoga is a set of techniques that work well with all religions.
One of my old Golden Dawn buddies from rural Missouri was a passionately evangelical born-again Christian at the same time he served as the head warlock of his Wiccan coven and we were doing Kabbalistic Magick together. Sounds bizarre, but he was for real and the sweetest, most decent guy you could ever meet. Now he’s a mainstay of his local Tibetan Buddhist temple!
Atheist checking in.
Atheist fans of Douglas Adams should check here:
http://www.AmericanAtheist.org/win98-99/T2/silverman.html
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Raised Christian, but belief was shaken when I was told that according to the Bible, my Jewish friends were bound for hell unless they “gave their lives to Christ.” I assume that would have included the Jewish speech-language pathologist that literally taught me how to speak. Refused to consider possibility of a God that would permit such a thing. Decided to study as many other religions as possible, with the amazing discovery that the concepts in Judaism actually came the closest to being what I personally believe.
Perhaps it’s in the genes. Go back far enough on my maternal grandmother’s side of the family, and you will find Jewish ancestors. But somewhere along the line, after the immigration from Europe to America, someone converted.
Today, I’m inclined towards deism, but I have absolutely no problem with the Big Bang, evolution, or the other concepts that get fundamentalists’ undies in a bunch.
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Darn coding…must learn to preview.
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Ummmmmmmm…I have to question this OP. Doesn’t matter if we’re Muslim or Atheist, were all united in being non-Christian?
I know this was started to balance out the Who’s A Christian thread. But…what the point? To prove that Christians are not a majority- which would make them a minority, on this board? Yeah maybe. So?
To prove they are not well reprensented? vanilla’s thread proves otherwise.
To take a general head count? Then we should distigush between Muslim (monotheist) Pagan (pantheist) and atheist (duh).
Of course everybody so far has been happy to define their faith of lack there of- so this works fine as a head count. But, still. Why lump all the non-christains together?
Militant Agnostic.
Jew. Raised Conservative, currently affiliated with Reform because that’s the only congregation nearby. Still haven’t figured out which one is closer to my beliefs.