What's Your Favorite Religion

[Ben Kenobi]

/me flames Da Shi.

Catholicism and Protestantism are not different religions. They are branches from the same tree. Therefore I will protest your obviously inaccurate and carelessly flawed poll by voting for the banana religion.

[Buck Birdseed]

My favourite religion is Give Birdseed Stuffism. I don't practice it myself but it does have a certain je ne sais quoi.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Elok


Off-topic, insulting, and severely mistaken on several different counts. Wow. Capitalism is existent as a separate system from communism, just like the more moderate forms of socialism. It's mostly mentioned in the context of Communism debates because the rest of us don't object to it, but capitalism is just as "real" as communism.

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Im not sure thats quite true. There's a market economy, private property, etc - but what is capitalism? Why privilege the role of capital or its owners in charecterizing a market economy? Historian Ferdinand Braudel, who most certainly DID believe that capitalism was a useful category, still felt the need to justify that assertion. (BTW he did not consider capitalism identical to a market economy with private property)

[Buck Birdseed]

Power. All lefty political analyses are more-or-less based on who's got the power and who should have it. Thus commies lift our the owners of capital as they're the ones who weild most power in a capitalist economy.

Could you withhin their belief system design a market economy with private ownership where capitalists (marxist sense) did not weild the most power? Possibly. You could ban corporations for instance, or require all companies to be owned privately-yet-collectively by the workers...

[Gangerolf]

judaism. at least the hasidic guys with funny beards and hats

[Mercator]

Monotheistic religions are boring.

[Shogun Gunner]

Hindi - you got love Ganesh - a dude with an elephant head. And that chick with six arms... And Brahma has four faces on his head to look in every direction! Awesome!

[Drake Tungsten]

****, Kannon has eleven heads and a thousand arms...

Buddhism 1 - Hinduism 0

[Shogun Gunner]

damm!

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
How can a person living in China leave Daoism out of a religion poll?

Because Daoism is not a religion?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Catholicism and Protestantism are not different religions. They are branches from the same tree.

In addition, if you seperate Catholicism and Protestantism, then you have to seperate out Protestantism, because you have very different variations there.

[Zkribbler]

I've always had a soft spot for the Church of the Most High Goddess. You went in, paid her husband a "love offering," then took the Goddess into the back room where she performed a ... uh ... "religious" ritual on you.

She tried to defend her prostitution charge by arguing the First Amendment. It didn't work.

[Ben Kenobi]

True Imran. There is no one true 'Protestant' church.

[Drake Tungsten]

Because Daoism is not a religion?

I would've thought you'd know your own country's history better than this. Not all Daoists follow what could be called a Daoist "religion", but there has been a significant religious form of Daoism in China for thousands of years. It was one of the main competitors to Buddhism in China for a long time.

[Urban Ranger]

The confusion arises because there's no differentiation in English between the two, though in fact they are very different from each other and should have separate names in English, as they do in Chinese.