# What Are Your Religious Beliefs? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 17, 2010, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-religious-beliefs/550484 "2010-08-17T01:25:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-religious-beliefs/550484/21 "2010-08-17T12:50:30Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > > [@norinew](#): > > > > I’m Baha’i. > > Seriously? > > I have to say, you’re the first Baha’i I’ve ever encountered outside of Haifa, except for those guys by the statue of Garibaldi. Really? Every summer, I go to a couple of Baha’i Summer Schools, and there are, at the two big ones, hundreds of Baha’is (plus some seekers) there. One of the retreats I go to is focused toward the West Virginia Baha’i community, and that one’s much smaller, maybe 25 or 30 attendees. At the larger schools, a lot (maybe 1/3) of the attendees are of Iranian descent, another 1/3 are mixed race, 1/3 are USA born and bred. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-religious-beliefs/550484/22 "2010-08-17T13:00:54Z")
Atheist. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-religious-beliefs/550484/23 "2010-08-17T13:57:09Z")
I’m a Buddhist, but I’m also an Atheist. The poll wouldn’t let me check both, so I checked Buddhist. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-religious-beliefs/550484/24 "2010-08-17T14:04:05Z")
I’m the only Protestant Arminian so far?!? Re Baha’i- Seals & Croft are Baha’i. Re Secularist but Spiritual- would Humanist be a better term? ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-religious-beliefs/550484/25 "2010-08-17T14:06:55Z")
I’m a little distressed to find “Anglican” consigned to “Protestant-Other.” I consider myself Anglo-Catholic. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-religious-beliefs/550484/26 "2010-08-17T14:09:33Z")
Sikhism and Jainism are not, strictly speaking, “Vedic” religions. Neither is Buddhism. “Dharmic” would be more apt. I voted atheist, but I’m really an apatheist. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-religious-beliefs/550484/27 "2010-08-17T14:14:49Z")
I voted "Pagan/Wiccan because I do believe there’s more to this universe than we experience, and I believe in a female goddess. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-religious-beliefs/550484/28 "2010-08-17T14:18:08Z")
Technical agnostic, practical atheist, cultural Christian with occasional tendencies towards anti-theism, who nevertheless finds the fictional characters of Aslan, Athena, Jesus, & Thor helpful to think about, at divers times and for divers purposes. And no, that does not mean “unsure.” ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-religious-beliefs/550484/29 "2010-08-17T14:18:30Z")
I clicked “Other Religion”. I’m an atheist Unitarian Universalist. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-religious-beliefs/550484/30 "2010-08-17T14:22:08Z")
Atheist, non practicing. ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9de0a6/32.png) [@Electric\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-religious-beliefs/550484/31 "2010-08-17T14:44:30Z")
“Unsure”, because I waver between agnostic and atheist with some remnants of my old pagan beliefs. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-religious-beliefs/550484/32 "2010-08-17T14:46:19Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Re Baha’i- Seals & Croft are Baha’i. Actually, I knew that. Their biggest hit, _Hummingbird_ was written about Baha’u’llah, the Prophet/Founder of the faith. It even includes a couple of lines of Baha’i scripture: “Lend us your wings Let us soar Through the atmosphere of Abha\* Lift us up to the Heaven of Holiness O, Source of our being!” \*Abha-place of Glory and Light. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-religious-beliefs/550484/33 "2010-08-17T14:48:07Z")
I picked atheist, but I still feel a strong connection with Judaism and Jewish culture. Although I don’t actively believe in god, I do often find myself making decisions based on Jewish ethics. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-religious-beliefs/550484/34 "2010-08-17T14:50:06Z")
> [@spark240](#): > > I have to :dubious: a little at a slotting that puts Mormons and Unitarians together, two of the most functionally different religious groups I have ever encountered. I couldn’t agree more. Those are two of the most diametrically opposed religions I can think of. That would be like putting Buddhism and Scientology in the same category. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-religious-beliefs/550484/35 "2010-08-17T14:55:27Z")
Areligious, I guess. I can’t work up the bile to be loudly atheist, even though I think it’s all hoodwink and hoodoo. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-religious-beliefs/550484/36 "2010-08-17T14:55:57Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > > [@Alessan](#): > > > > > [@Alessan](#): > > > > > > > [@norinew](#): > > > > > > > > I’m Baha’i. > > > > > > Seriously? > > > > > > I have to say, you’re the first Baha’i I’ve ever encountered outside of Haifa, except for those guys by the statue of Garibaldi. > > > > Seriously? > > > > I have to say, you’re the first Baha’i I’ve ever encountered outside of Haifa, except for those guys by the statue of Garibaldi. > > Really? Every summer, I go to a couple of Baha’i Summer Schools, and there are, at the two big ones, hundreds of Baha’is (plus some seekers) there. One of the retreats I go to is focused toward the West Virginia Baha’i community, and that one’s much smaller, maybe 25 or 30 attendees. At the larger schools, a lot (maybe 1/3) of the attendees are of Iranian descent, another 1/3 are mixed race, 1/3 are USA born and bred. IIRC the Baha’i actively **refuse** to accept Israeli’s into their fold, because of the (unstated) fact that their spiritual and operational center is here, and they just don’t want to piss off any of the large and influential (other) religious denominations here. Ah – [found something](http://bahai-library.com/?file=uhj_teaching_in_israel) Oh, and I voted Atheist… ---
**Author:** ![Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fried_Dough_Ho)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-religious-beliefs/550484/37 "2010-08-17T14:59:57Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Atheist, non practicing. Would that be considered a lapsed atheist? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-religious-beliefs/550484/38 "2010-08-17T15:15:27Z")
> [@Fried\_Dough\_Ho](#): > > > [@kayaker](#): > > > > Atheist, non practicing. > > Would that be considered a lapsed atheist? 😛 A loving god would smite thee for that! ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-religious-beliefs/550484/39 "2010-08-17T15:32:02Z")
Atheist. I really have no time for silly superstitions and woo woo beliefs. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-religious-beliefs/550484/40 "2010-08-17T15:44:29Z")
I’m a Pastafarian, but I’m beginning to have my doubts. Does that make me agnostic? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-religious-beliefs/550484.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-religious-beliefs/550484.md?page=3)