# Religion Poll

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-poll/246936>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 25, 2004, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-poll/246936 "2004-05-25T03:49:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 9

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**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-poll/246936/161 "2004-05-26T00:28:08Z")

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what?  
No satanists, Subgenius’s, nakedmolerat worshippers?

Wheres the diversity???

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**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-poll/246936/162 "2004-05-26T00:32:07Z")

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Militant Atheist.

I believe in the golden rule, but I don’t see why that has to have anything to do with religion.

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**Author:** ![quilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/839c29/32.png) [@quilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quilter)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-poll/246936/163 "2004-05-26T00:44:22Z")

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Lutheran roots (my 10x-great-grandfather’s pastor portrait still hangs in a Luthern church in northern Germany), raised fundy Christian. I’m profoundly agnostic.

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**Author:** ![VertexShader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@VertexShader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VertexShader)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-poll/246936/164 "2004-05-26T00:48:27Z")

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Atheist.

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**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-poll/246936/165 "2004-05-26T00:54:32Z")

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Agnostic, who is a firm believer in the Golden Rule and occasionally practices ultra-Reform Judaism on holidays and at life-cycle events to keep her family off her back.

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**Author:** ![yBeayf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@yBeayf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yBeayf)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-poll/246936/166 "2004-05-26T01:04:02Z")

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Eastern (Russian) Orthodox.

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**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-poll/246936/167 "2004-05-26T02:05:28Z")

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I’m afraid to open a can o’ worms, here, but I’d like to suggest it is possible to be a follower (in general) of the teachings of Christ as described in the Bible, without adhering to the necessity of any sort of divinity being involved. There are those who speculate that it was his later followers who insisted on his godhood, and that Christ may have never actually such for himself.

Nevertheless, a follower of the _teachings_ of Christ = Christian.

I therefore, am an agnostic Christian.  
😃

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**Author:** ![milroyj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@milroyj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milroyj)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-poll/246936/168 "2004-05-26T02:10:29Z")

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Catholic

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**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-poll/246936/169 "2004-05-26T02:27:59Z")

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Reform Judaism.

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**Author:** ![Zap\_Rowsdower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3da27b/32.png) [@Zap\_Rowsdower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zap_Rowsdower)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-poll/246936/170 "2004-05-26T02:37:22Z")

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Atheist, who also believes the “Golden Rule” is a good way to live and has nothing to do with religion

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**Author:** ![Never\_to\_be\_Queen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Never\_to\_be\_Queen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Never_to_be_Queen)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-poll/246936/171 "2004-05-26T03:01:05Z")

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Christian. I go to a United Methodist Church but am more “progressive” than the people there.

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**Author:** ![leafrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cab0a1/32.png) [@leafrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leafrog)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-poll/246936/172 "2004-05-26T03:04:37Z")

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Raised a Mennonite (am I the first?)

but now, thank god, I’m an athiest.

😉

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**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-poll/246936/173 "2004-05-26T03:07:01Z")

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Catholic

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**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-poll/246936/174 "2004-05-26T03:08:08Z")

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(Soft) Atheist.

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**Author:** ![the\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@the\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Lady)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-poll/246936/175 "2004-05-26T03:11:03Z")

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lapsed Catholic

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**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-poll/246936/176 "2004-05-26T04:17:40Z")

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Neo-pagan Celtic Discordian

🆒 fnord 🆒

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**Author:** ![dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamer)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-poll/246936/177 "2004-05-26T04:19:14Z")

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Messianic Jew, or I’m a Jew for Jesus.

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**Author:** ![LordVor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90ced4/32.png) [@LordVor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LordVor)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-poll/246936/178 "2004-05-26T04:48:54Z")

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recovering cathaholic.

(athiest)

-lv

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**Author:** ![BytopianDream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9de0a6/32.png) [@BytopianDream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BytopianDream)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-poll/246936/179 "2004-05-26T04:52:27Z")

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Baha’i

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**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-poll/246936/180 "2004-05-26T05:52:18Z")

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Catholic

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