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View Poll Results: What's your religion?
Agnostic 9 10.34%
Atheist 28 32.18%
Buddhist 1 1.15%
Catholic - Non-Practicing 4 4.60%
Catholic - Practicing 8 9.20%
Jewish - Observant 2 2.30%
Jewish - "Cultural" 0 0%
Hindu 0 0%
Muslim 0 0%
Pagan 2 2.30%
Protestant - Practicing 9 10.34%
Protestant - Non-Practicing 1 1.15%
"Spiritual" 11 12.64%
Other 12 13.79%
Voters: 87. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 08-02-2009, 07:35 PM
 
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Rite I...old fashioned over here.
Used to be Rite I. Somehow, we switched over to Rite II. That being said, I prefer the language of Rite I more. It is meet and right so to do.
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Old 08-02-2009, 07:36 PM
 
Location: So Cal
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Well, my mom is from New Orleans They know those things down there Don't make me prove it!


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Old 08-02-2009, 07:38 PM
 
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I don't want to offend anyone here but I just can't get some of these thoughts out of my mind regarding organized religion.


They just seem like fairytales and devices used to control people.

Don't eat pork, eat fish on friday, all of that kind of nonsense.

I don't think god is gonna judge me based on my f ing diet.??
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Old 08-02-2009, 07:40 PM
 
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I don't want to offend anyone here but I just can't get some of these thoughts out of my mind regarding organized religion.


They just seem like fairytales and devices used to control people.

Don't eat pork, eat fish on friday, all of that kind of nonsense.

I don't think god is gonna judge me based on my f ing diet.??
Well, thank you for that. But, really, you could subject any belief or non-belief system up to ridicule. So what?
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Old 08-02-2009, 07:40 PM
 
Location: Tucson
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Rite I...old fashioned over here.
There are divisions even within the same church?! Good grief! One would think the glorified religion should contribute to uniting people, not to dividing them further. Not that it's ever been the case... More people have been killed in the name of some god than for any other reason. Of course, that inspiration has always been given to the dummies covering the real reasons, which can be found by following the money.
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Old 08-02-2009, 07:43 PM
 
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There are divisions even within the same church?! Good grief! One would think the glorified religion should contribute to uniting people, not to dividing them further. Not that it's ever been the case... More people have been killed in the name of some god than for any other reason. Of course, that inspiration has always been given to the dummies covering the real reasons, which can be found by following the money.
It's not a division. There are just two different possible liturgies. One formal and one less so. In our church, the early service uses Rite II while the later service prefers Rite I.

Episcopalians are civilized. We form a committee and then have a wine and cheese party to settle our differences.
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Old 08-02-2009, 07:43 PM
 
Location: Orlando
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I don't want to offend anyone here but I just can't get some of these thoughts out of my mind regarding organized religion.


They just seem like fairytales and devices used to control people.

Don't eat pork, eat fish on friday, all of that kind of nonsense.

I don't think god is gonna judge me based on my f ing diet.??
So go ask these kind of questions over in the religion forum.
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Old 08-02-2009, 07:47 PM
 
Location: So Cal
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Well, thank you for that. But, really, you could subject any belief or non-belief system up to ridicule. So what?
Organized religion went shythouse for me once I found out that the Catholic church just moved child molesters around instead of turning them over to the authorities.

Of course, I understand that it is a small minority of priests doing that. I'm not a moron.

I just can't handle hypocrisy in any shape of form.
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Old 08-02-2009, 07:49 PM
 
Location: So Cal
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So go ask these kind of questions over in the religion forum.
Of course this thread doesn't even belong in this forum.

Since it was here I'd thought I'd chime in.
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Old 08-02-2009, 07:49 PM
 
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