What Are Your Religious Beliefs?

[meenie7]

I’m a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I’m sad we didn’t get our own category, but oh well.

[Tethered_Kite]

I resist a label and obligatory doctrine.

I believe that I am body, mind and spirit and for optimum health need daily maintenance of those components.

A Healthist whatchamacallit, if you must.

[Mister_Rik]

@MeanOldLady

I’m a Pastafarian, but I’m beginning to have my doubts. Does that make me agnostic?

So you’re a follower of the prophet, Al Dente?

[Desert_Nomad]

I wish we could answer more than one. I would say I am an Atheist/Agnostic depending on the day, but with Islamic leanings… eg when I am in Islamic countries, I will attend prayers in a mosque once a week or so. I also strictly refrain from alcohol.

[jjimm]

@MeanOldLady

I’m a Pastafarian, but I’m beginning to have my doubts. Does that make me agnostic?

Or an agnocchi.

[Shirley_Ujest]

@Voyager

<Hawkeye> Druid. Reformed. </Hawkeye>

HEH.

[Rushgeekgirl]

I am atheist but I’ve been studying Buddhism for a while now, and I do feel drawn to it despite the spiritual aspects. I have been atheist for a long time so I just chose that but it could have been either.

[MeanOldLady]

@Mister_Rik

@MeanOldLady

I’m a Pastafarian, but I’m beginning to have my doubts. Does that make me agnostic?

So you’re a follower of the prophet, Al Dente?

Excellent! They need t work that into their website somehow.

@jjimm

@MeanOldLady

I’m a Pastafarian, but I’m beginning to have my doubts. Does that make me agnostic?

Or an agnocchi.

Oh, you…

[Mister_Rik]

@MeanOldLady

@Mister_Rik

So you’re a follower of the prophet, Al Dente?

Excellent! They need t work that into their website somehow.

You mean they haven’t already? And there’s actually a website?

I got it several years ago from a local band who was having a “name the band” contest, and one of the submissions was “Al Dente and the Pastafarians”.

[Lanzy]

Pigeon holeing, hey?

[C3]

@spark240

@Curtis LeMay

They are both Christian-based but are at the same time rather unorthodox (ie anti-Trinitarianism for instance).

That’s a rough theological similarity. They do very different things with it. Comparable, or closer, parallels could be drawn between many pairs you list separately, like Sunni and Shia.

While Unitarian Universalists are “descended” from Unitarians (and Universalists!), you’d be hard pressed to hear any talk of the Trinity or anti-Trinitarianism in a UU congregation, outside of a “History of UUism” learning circle. UUs are historically Christian-based and there are Christian UUs, but it would be incorrect to say that Unitarian Universalism is a Christian religion, even an unorthodox one. I’m a UU and my brother is LDS. Our theologies have nothing in common, except for the overarching humanist ideas that are present in most religions and philosophies.

[as_u_wish]

Interesting choices on breaking down Christianity. Not necessarily the ones I would have chosen. I had to look up Arminian, but I think that’s where I fit. But it groups a lot of us together. I suspect even amongst the three of us currently checking this, not all would share the same detailed beliefs. I hold to these truths: There is one God and Father of us all. The scriptures are God’s word and reveal truth to us through the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Jesus is a real individual, his death and physical ressurection atoned for our sins and opens the way to heaven. The Holy Spirit indwells us, guides us and empowers us. Demons and angels are both very real. Miracles happen, often through prayer. Prayer is a powerful weapon in fighting evil. Adult baptism by immersion. And then, of course, just to be difficult, I choose to honor the Seventh Day Sabbath, though I have no issue with others who choose differently. Or with those who choose to baptize infants, or or or or. There’s a lot of flexibility and cultural adaptivity. So I’m guessing I checked the correct box, but I’m not sure.

[Qin_Shi_Huangdi]

@C3

@spark240

That’s a rough theological similarity. They do very different things with it. Comparable, or closer, parallels could be drawn between many pairs you list separately, like Sunni and Shia.

While Unitarian Universalists are “descended” from Unitarians (and Universalists!), you’d be hard pressed to hear any talk of the Trinity or anti-Trinitarianism in a UU congregation, outside of a “History of UUism” learning circle. UUs are historically Christian-based and there are Christian UUs, but it would be incorrect to say that Unitarian Universalism is a Christian religion, even an unorthodox one. I’m a UU and my brother is LDS. Our theologies have nothing in common, except for the overarching humanist ideas that are present in most religions and philosophies.

However there are Unitarians outside of Unitarian Universalists who are somewhat more traditional in theology.

[C3]

@Curtis LeMay

@C3

While Unitarian Universalists are “descended” from Unitarians (and Universalists!), you’d be hard pressed to hear any talk of the Trinity or anti-Trinitarianism in a UU congregation, outside of a “History of UUism” learning circle. UUs are historically Christian-based and there are Christian UUs, but it would be incorrect to say that Unitarian Universalism is a Christian religion, even an unorthodox one. I’m a UU and my brother is LDS. Our theologies have nothing in common, except for the overarching humanist ideas that are present in most religions and philosophies.

However there are Unitarians outside of Unitarian Universalists who are somewhat more traditional in theology.

This is true, but it might have been more clear in your poll to either use the non-capitalized “unitarian” or to use “nontrinitarian” if that’s what you meant. By capitalizing Unitarian, it’s unclear whether you mean Unitarian Universalist or unitarian and most people would assume you were referring to UU.

[KRC]

Raised in an agnostic household, believed in God because of a couple bizarre experiences in my teens (one of which involved a hallucination of Aleister Crowley!) and later became terrified of something watching me from the sky. I was only able to identify the evil thing in the sky as Kafka, who oddly wrote about having been afraid of something similar.

I’ve since given up; I founded the first church of Chaos and Absurdity. Anyone is welcome to join as long as they bow to the ringneck parrots and admit they are saints. (Oh, and there’s a $500 fee, cash only. Hey, I’m not spending the rest of my life eating Ramens.)

[whiterabbit]

KRC, you should check out the Discordians. Seriously. You sound like you’d fit right in.

It would have been really helpful to have a multiple choice option. Agnostic is close enough, but I have Pagan leanings as well – as in I don’t know if there is a God/gods but if I were to believe there were, I’d be Pagan because I like the general outlook on the universe and us as being part of it and all that fuzzy stuff.

[Cat_Whisperer]

You didn’t have an option for agnostic pantheistic pagan buddhist. :mad:

[GuanoLad]

I believe the one true religion is ichthyism, which nobody is worshipping, so we’re all going to get a short sharp shock in the afterlife when the mighty Fish God pronounces Judgement and sentences us to eternity in Oceanic Hell.

[LouisB]

You need an option for “My personal religious beliefs are my own business and no ones business but mine.” That’s the one I would have chosen.

[norinew]

@LouisB

You need an option for “My personal religious beliefs are my own business and no ones business but mine.” That’s the one I would have chosen.

As I’m not a mind reader, I can’t say for sure, but it’s possible, even probable, that the OP thought that people who believe that simply would not respond.