# Pick a god, any god **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 19, 2008, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-god-any-god/449863 "2008-05-19T16:49:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ethelbert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@ethelbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ethelbert)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-god-any-god/449863/21 "2008-05-19T18:23:28Z")
Does [Solipsism](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism) count? Get off my lawn you figments of my imagination! ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-god-any-god/449863/22 "2008-05-19T18:30:19Z")
Worship of Coyote as he is represented in Crow mythology. (I want nothing to do with the Navajo Coyote, thank you very much.) ETA: If I have to choose a whole mythology, though, I’m not quite sure I’d want the rest of the Crow mythos. So, I’d then add my vote to the FSM. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-god-any-god/449863/23 "2008-05-19T18:33:37Z")
[QUOTE=pbbth] Oooh, I choose neopaganism. [/QUOTE] While I’m tempted to say the same, I wonder how that would work, just like I sometimes go :dubious: in certain eclectic circles. I mean, do you think Thor and Diana would get along? Would Sekhmet crash the party and drink all of Dionysus’ wine? Would Brigid slap the hell out of Aphrodite for being a silly git? I think we need to get a bit more specific, or we’re going to have a Clash of the Titans for sure. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-god-any-god/449863/24 "2008-05-19T18:34:31Z")
[QUOTE=ethelbert] Does [Solipsism](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism) count? [/QUOTE] Who’s asking? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-god-any-god/449863/25 "2008-05-19T18:35:10Z")
I pick neo-paganisn. “There are many ways to the goal.” So all the other religions can have their way… except that they don’t get to force others to it. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-god-any-god/449863/26 "2008-05-19T18:38:57Z")
Okay, don’t show It to me. Now put It back in the deck. Is THAT your god? Whaddaya mean, stripper deck? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-god-any-god/449863/27 "2008-05-19T18:43:42Z")
**Czarcasm** , I’m one of the only posters who adhered to your restrictions and chose a religion. Aren’t I to be commended? or at least to have you shred my choice by laughing at all the horrible things that are going to happen because I didn’t think things through enough? ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-god-any-god/449863/28 "2008-05-19T18:46:50Z")
I’d choose Christianity. (Or in other words, I’d vote for the status quo.) ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-god-any-god/449863/29 "2008-05-19T18:49:03Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] **Czarcasm** , I’m one of the only posters who adhered to your restrictions and chose a religion. [/QUOTE] One of the only posters? What does that mean? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-god-any-god/449863/30 "2008-05-19T18:51:49Z")
[QUOTE=ITR champion] I’d choose Christianity. (Or in other words, I’d vote for the status quo.) [/QUOTE] Which flavor? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-god-any-god/449863/31 "2008-05-19T18:52:45Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] One of the only posters? What does that mean? [/QUOTE] What it says…you know, a lot of other posters posted about wanting to choose one tenets or picking apart the notion of “reality” or so on. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-god-any-god/449863/32 "2008-05-19T18:54:26Z")
[nitpick] **Tenet**. Not tenant. A tenant is someone to whom you rent a room.[/np] Pantheism. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-god-any-god/449863/33 "2008-05-19T18:57:48Z")
[QUOTE=Maureen] [nitpick] **Tenet**. Not tenant. A tenant is someone to whom you rent a room.[/np] Pantheism. [/QUOTE] I…don’t know what you’re talking about? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-god-any-god/449863/34 "2008-05-19T18:58:55Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] Hell yes, there would by actual flying saucers and stuff. That would be far cooler than lots of other things. [/QUOTE] On second thought that would make Tom Cruise like the emperor of the universe, so I change my mind. I’ll go with either the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church or Unitarian Universalism. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-god-any-god/449863/35 "2008-05-19T19:00:43Z")
Since I’m asking for a single established religion, I’m going to have to disallow any variations of Panthism, neopeganism or the like, if you are trying to get away with letting them all exist equally. Pick a card, any card, but put the rest of the deck back down on the table. ---
**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-god-any-god/449863/36 "2008-05-19T19:00:53Z")
Hinduism It’s got a lot of cool gods and you get to be reincarnated. Plus it’s diverse enough everyone can be happy. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-god-any-god/449863/37 "2008-05-19T19:00:54Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] What it says…you know, a lot of other posters posted about wanting to choose one tenant or picking apart the notion of “reality” or so on. [/QUOTE] “One of the few” more approaches your definition. I still don’t know what “one of the only” means. It says nothing about relative numbers. If nineteen out of twenty said “x,” and so did you, you could say that you were one of the only ones to say “x.” Without a quantity attached, it has no meaning. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-god-any-god/449863/38 "2008-05-19T19:04:25Z")
[QUOTE=Czarcasm] Since I’m asking for a single established religion, I’m going to have to disallow any variations of Panthism, neopeganism or the like, if you are trying to get away with letting them all exist equally. Pick a card, any card, but put the rest of the deck back down on the table. [/QUOTE] Stickler. 😛 Fine. Will you allow atheism? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-god-any-god/449863/39 "2008-05-19T19:06:03Z")
[QUOTE=Maureen] Stickler. 😛 Fine. Will you allow atheism? [/QUOTE] No. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-god-any-god/449863/40 "2008-05-19T19:06:14Z")
Atheism, what, it’s an “-ism” just like the others, Science dammit! Okay, fine, if I can’t have Atheism, then I choose Cthulu-ism [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-god-any-god/449863.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-god-any-god/449863.md?page=3)