Who is religious?

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So who here participates in an organized religion? I don't mean just going to the folks' place for the holidays or thinking there's a divinity that shapes our ends rough-hew them how we may, I mean which ILX'ers consider themselves practicing Christians/Muslims/Jews/Sikhs/Baha'i/etc., of whatever stripe?

(Please defer bashing to, at the very least, another thread.)

― Douglas, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Reform Jew, that's me. (Though I was brought up with several-times- yearly trips to the Birmingham Temple in Detroit, featuring Rabbi Sherwin Wine, the only atheist rabbi I know of offhand. Imagine a congregation of bluehaired Detroit Jews singing "We look for the right thing to do..." to the tune of "Avinu Malkeinu.")

― Douglas, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm a polynontheist, though i consider myself to have a strong moral/ethical/spiritual life...

― Queen G, Saturday, 20 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the church of saint john coltrane...yeah

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― geeta, Saturday, 20 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

By nature, Celtic Shinto. Worship with the -- Christ! -- scientists.

― Momus, Saturday, 20 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Catholic, Liberation and Mystical- closer to Blessed Oscar Romeo and Saint Julian of Norwhich then anything, ask me sometime about The Mother Church and Hiduism

― anthony, Saturday, 20 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Good timing. I actually just got home 5 min. ago from spending all day with a bunch of Freethinkers. So yes, I'm an atheist. Before the "full transformation" I tried going to some churches to make sure I was an atheist. The churches I went to were mostly Baptist (in fact, Southern Baptist and Freewill Baptist-YIKES!!!) but I never considered myself a Christian in my life.

If you guys ever wanna go to an action packed church service seek out your local Freewill Baptists-they are so moved by the spirit that they yell, speak in tongues (a bit), and run throughout the entire church. It's amazing.

― Lindsey B, Saturday, 20 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, but Lindsey, if you spent the whole day with them, doesn't that mean you just went to church? ;-) FWIW I'm atheist as well -- heck, why am I even posting here!

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Midly Christian. I've been known to step into a church every now and again. Actually, I'm more of a polymorphous mystic. I like Plotinus and Buddhism in its various incarnations, for example.

― Michael Daddino, Saturday, 20 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

agnostic veering more toward belief in something.

― jel --, Sunday, 21 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm a catholic but I don't go to mass or pray really ever. I've not really thought enough about whether there's a god or not, it doesn't keep me awake at night, my reasons for not going to mass etc are simple;I find it boring. No major anarchy going on there really.

― Ronan, Sunday, 21 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm a practicing Christian. As in, I haven't quite got the hang of it yet.

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 21 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

five months pass...

I wonder why this thread got so few responses (I could enumerate the reasons I am wondering about but this is just to put it in new answers).

― Josh (Josh), Monday, 23 September 2002 05:41 (twenty-three years ago)

josh- please illuminate (oh yes!) us...

anyway, I am a roman catholic. but lets say i have done much soul searching for a few years.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 23 September 2002 10:44 (twenty-three years ago)

1. people missed it
2. these are all the religious people (er most of them)
3. there are way more ambiguous touchy-feely divine-power-but-not-organized-religion-people
4. people reluctant to talk about it
5. lazy

― Josh (Josh), Monday, 23 September 2002 14:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I agree with the basic tenets of Christianity, but I'm still mistrustful of organized religion in general.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 September 2002 14:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I have my own religion, the True Church Of Tobit. It's based on the idea that all books of the Bible other than the Book of Tobit are apocryphal.

Praise Tobit.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 23 September 2002 20:47 (twenty-three years ago)

My husband and I have agreed that if we ever become preachers for tax purposes, we'll call our church the Church Of Holy Fucking.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Monday, 23 September 2002 21:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I wonder if we have ever asked ourselves what it means to be truly religious?

― J. Krishnamurti, Monday, 23 September 2002 23:49 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm a roman catholic, but i grew increasingly mistrustful of the catholic church and its wrong politics.
i believe in most of the ethics and the ideas behind christianism, but the people who's in charge has completely lost the point, in my opinion.
same for democracy, in fact.

― joan vich (joan vich), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

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