What Religion are You?

I'm just an animist, and not a practicing one. It just feels nice to call my car a "she". 

All the religion anyone needs, right there. If you need to be religious, all you need is to be able to anthropomorphize the physical world around you and attribute intent and consciousness to it. Everything else that the major religions added on, including their superspirits (deities), theology and all that - its not necessary, its just there to enslave minds. 

Of course, most people don't really understand their religion and actually are animists without realizing it. Take Christianity. Most Christians think God inhabits all matter and energy, they go to heaven when they die, and being good matters. Wrong, wrong, and wrong, according to Christianity. God is a person with a physical form - the notion of an animative, creative principle is Greco-Roman in origin and got attached to Christianity later on. The dead never go to heaven ... they rise bodily from the grave and, if they are lucky, get to live in New Jerusalem (which is city that floats down out of the sky and lands on earth). And good works are encouraged, but in the final verdict, don't matter even a little - all that matters is belief in Christ (which, according to the bible, is predestined! Free will has practically no biblical support except one ambiguous passage, but there are dozens supporting predestination). Crazy stuff! 

Edited by edgewaters - 23-Nov-2008 at 06:12

Agnostic, raised Catholic.

I still have some faith, in what I'm not sure.

I guess you could say I'm former christian who has made some sense out of secular humanism.


Edited by nova roma - 27-Nov-2008 at 22:07

Fundamentalist Pastafarian.  In the name of Pasta, the Meatballs, and the Holy Sauce we trust. we follow only holy words reveal by FSM to our prophet Bobby Henderson may he rest in pasta. RAmen.

Agnostic of Catholic moulding. And by moulding I mean the creation of a profound disillusionment with religion that is going to be pretty hard to shake.

Originally posted by Siege Tower Fundamentalist Pastafarian.  In the name of Pasta, the Meatballs, and the Holy Sauce we trust. we follow only holy words reveal by FSM to our prophet Bobby Henderson may he rest in pasta. RAmen.

Protestant who was raised a Methodist, but now consider myself just a Christian belonging to no particular denomination.

I was brought up Lutheran and some Greek Orthodox and attended a Baptist elementry school but now I accept any belief as long as they follow the godlen rule and respect other beliefs as equal in society. I also recognize the Christian roots of my nations but I am a strong believer in freedom of religion or no religion; as long as you respect other views, right to religion, and live in peace.