What religion are you?

[Mercator]

I was baptised, and did both First Communion and Confirmation.

I'm an atheist.

[molly bloom]

No religion. Previously catholic, then lapsed catholic, now not interested. Still have the residual guilt thing though, but speaking to other ex holy rollers that seems common. You can take the boy out of Catholicism, but you can't take Catholicism out of the boy.

Still, it's given me a keen appreciation for kitsch Mexican/Hispanic religious folk art and the more grotesque excesses of Christian Gothic...

[Shogun Gunner]

Wow... I got wonder if Spec regrets starting this poll!

We haven't discussed the Shintoist yet. That's my belief.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Azazel

Why shouldnt He believe in azazel? at least he exists.

You know, it wasn't supposed to be that way. If he wasn't such a goddamn tyrant, and would've let us do some stuff around, like all the other Normal pantheons, we wouldn't have rebelled against him. but NOOOOO, Y had to supervise all the stuff. Hey, cut us some slack, we aren't just drones, you know....****, we, we were... Freedom Fighters! Yep! that's right! But now, he's been badmouthing us for a couple of thousands of years, and saying how we're all 'evil', and stuff... , and he's supposedly this good god, and we're evil demons. Yeah, explain your way out of the holocaust, 'my good lord'.

If youve followed my exchanges with ben, youd know ai consider the Shoah a very serious theological issue, and one that traditional justifications of "the way of God to Man" dont adequately address. The only way out, I think, is a different view of G-d, and of the mans relationship to G-d, and of the sources of our relationship to G-d one that explicitly deals with the Shoah. I wont go into the details here - I will recommend a book - "To Mend the World" by the late R. Emil Fackenheim.


A worthwhile book, for commited Christians and Humanists as well as those wrestling with Judaism - and one which struggles with classic humanist approaches to Jewishness as well (notably Spinoza, who Fackenheim sees as almost a proto-secular Zionist)

[Dinner]

What the hell is a Boudist? Is that some horrible misspelling of Buddhist?

[Japher]

naw, it's a booDiss

[Az]

If youve followed my exchanges with ben, youd know ai consider the Shoah a very serious theological issue, and one that traditional justifications of "the way of God to Man" dont adequately address. The only way out, I think, is a different view of G-d, and of the mans relationship to G-d, and of the sources of our relationship to G-d one that explicitly deals with the Shoah. I wont go into the details here - I will recommend a book - "To Mend the World" by the late R. Emil Fackenheim.

Is this new god a cold an uncaring god, that considers us his little playthings? This strikes me as more reasonable.

[Monk]

Will somebody explain to me briefly why people write G-d instead of God?

[Az]

a VERY ancient taboo, of sorts. Stems from the ancient belief that if you said one's name, you control him in some way.

[Shogun Gunner]

I don't know M-nk. Thanks for the explanation Az-zel.

[Tassadar500]

Originally posted by Azazel
a VERY ancient taboo, of sorts. Stems from the ancient belief that if you said one's name, you control him in some way.

I have a different explanation for it. In Judaism you cannot throw away anything that has God's name on it. So people type G-d so it's not actually His name

[SlowwHand]

Christian and Protestant, Methodist variety.