HI everyone! I'm new here, and I thought it might be interesting to make a poll about religion...

I'm not religous at all. However I've studied alot on christian.

Vagodeoz,

when you put up a poll like this you should at least look up the background of the major religions, spelling etc. I don't understand the facination with everyones religion when you didn't even take the time to do a little research before you posted it.

I edited some of your spelling and added (Edited) the options. To those of you who read this and realise I did not put your religion there, that is why I did other.

Cheers and happy voting.

Nils

I'm glad someone polled on this. With more contributers, it will show to newcomers, quickly, the belief orientation they will recieve in philosophical threads. VS. reading past posts to gain a demographic picture.

I am, to be specific, a modern western theravada buddhist.

You know, to be specific.

Oh, and to be similarly technical, I am also an atheist. Buddhists don't have a god. Unless they happen to believe in one from some earlier religious background. It doesn't always work out so well theologically, but that never stopped anyone. More the merrier really.

I call myself a catholic but only really because thats what my parents call themselves. I only believe about half of the things the church preach and I only go to church at Easter and Christmas.



I always thought that it was classified as a religion not because you worship a god, but simply because you have a kind of a guiding figure who you pray to, along with all the other stuff like a book and a set of rules etc. (very sorry if you don't actually pray to him and I'm just making stuff up)

Well, for theravada, there is no praying to a 'higher power'. It is different in a few mahayanda sects(in particular pure land). They do pray, kinda. They chant to ask for entrance into the 'pure land', a realm where it is supposedly easier to achieve enlightenment. However, really the pure land is supposed to be inside the person, and the chant is meditation to get there. But few pure land buddhists actually treat it that way. For most, its prayer.

But for me, as theravada, not so much.

I'm a Christian - A presbyterian to be exact.

I am a Christian, protestant. I believe in God and that all things work together for good. Being a christian is not easy but it is the only way to live... and worship for me is a lifestyle.

Out of curiosity, how is being a christian not easy?