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    Religion

    That is interesting. I've always loved that people actually put Jedi (my friend's parents did. :'D) Also, whoa. If you ignore Jediism, paganism (including the numbers for Wiccans and Druids... and I guess the 300 Heathens even though they were misplaced into 'no religion' for some reason) is...
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    ...o_o I'm not sure about my particular area, but as far as I know it's definitely less than 50% Christian for the whole UK. The 2001 census said something like 70% but considering other polls and such that's mainly just people raised like that who probably believe in God very vaguely if at...
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    Religion

    I'm actually surprised there's so many of them here, I thought there'd only be about five or something judging from this forum's general attitude. Then again, I'm used to living where Christians are a definite minority...
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    Religion

    No, no, I'm talking about the people who got out easy. Most people raised in a, say, Catholic family are like you - unfortunately stuck with it for the rest of their life. I'm talking about people who aren't stuck with it. You know, the people earlier who were saying it was easy to get out? I...
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    Religion

    This. If you found it easy and simple, count yourself as lucky because you really are a rarity. Apart from knowing a few people personally who came from really devout Irish Catholic families, I've experienced this a bit but in a bit of an ironic way: I was raised by a very, very non-religious...
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    Religion

    No, the Big Bang actually happened.
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    Religion

    tbh I don't believe that if there are deities, they had anything to do with the Big Bang. My idea of deities didn't and couldn't exist before humans existed, and perhaps not even until humans thought them up. They're only personifications of divinity, made into a more human-like form so we can...
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    Religion

    You can't call evolution "just a theory" and then go on to say that gravity is an actual scientific law. Make up your mind.
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    Religion

    Well, it's not like I'm a firm believer who refuses to see anything else. I guess technically I'm strictly agnostic, but I always had these odd little random beliefs ever since I was little and suddenly discovered that there was a name for them... I'm not forcing myself to believe anything, and...
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    Religion

    That's... not really what I'm saying. Differing beliefs occur naturally, I'm saying that it's unfair to condemn those which you disagree with because a world in which everyone believed the same about divinity would be a very dull world indeed. I don't have a different belief because I'm trying...
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    Religion

    Not scientifically, perhaps. But one of the reasons I hate proselytism is because everyone needs different beliefs -- like the natural world, only diversity can save religion. My beliefs aren't necessarily right for you, and vice versa. If it can inspire and sustain someone, then that's more...
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    Religion

    Well, it seemed as though you were implying this "odd deity" is some totally quaint new deity us new age lunatics thought up. What are the silly reasons? I personally think nature is the only thing worthy of "worship"; it's the only thing that quite obviously sustains us as opposed to the...
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    Religion

    ...people have worshipped the earth/nature for thousands and thousands and thousands of years but okay (and for particular parts of nature, pretty much forever). Most people who believe in nature "recycling" don't really believe in souls by the common definition. Of course we don't know whether...
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    Religion

    People believe in reincarnation because they think the idea that the soul or whatever lives on in the cycle of nature makes sense. Of course, that's the hippie neo-pagan yay nature viewpoint, so yeah. I don't really know much about other forms of reincarnation and don't really agree with the...
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    Religion

    ...my religious studies exam was split up into different courses, all on the same exam, so Judaism would be right under Christianity even though we're meant to ignore it. Judaism wasn't mentioned, only 'G-d' and I seriously thought this was some kind of futuristic deity pronounced 'Jee-dee'. >_>...
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    Religion

    Ahhh sorry, I really know absolutely nothing about Judaism. But I believe they are... somewhat connected or something so I put them together. :(
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    Religion

    Same. :D Or rather, I had my own odd spiritual beliefs in my head that didn't seem to fit anywhere, and then I found that neo-paganism fit it rather well. That's actually what I don't like about organised religion like Christianity. It's too much of "this is you what you believe" instead of...
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    Religion

    Because I'm curious! And previous threads on religion had crappy polls. ...not that mine is any better, feel free to yell at me if it looks stupid. It's actually really hard to make a poll on this. And I included neo-paganism because it's the biggest religion after the Big Six in the UK (if you...
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