If you had to pick a religion, which would you NOT choose?

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If you had to pick a religion, which would you not choose?

Buddhism	3%	[ 2 ]
Judaism	4%	[ 3 ]
Polytheism	1%	[ 1 ]
Islam	32%	[ 23 ]
Christianity	22%	[ 16 ]
Theism	4%	[ 3 ]
Taoism	0%	[ 0 ]
Atheism/Humanism	7%	[ 5 ]
Sikhism	3%	[ 2 ]
Hinduism	4%	[ 3 ]
Wicca	4%	[ 3 ]
Other	16%	[ 12 ]

Total votes : 73

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07 Apr 2008, 5:37 pm

which would you NOT choose? BTW, no complaining about redundancies.

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07 Apr 2008, 5:49 pm

what the hell?!? what kind of a trick poll is this. it initially read to me as which one would you choose. then i find out after I pick that I'm choosing the one I DON'T want?

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07 Apr 2008, 5:49 pm

BTW, I picked Sikhism as my non-choice so I could view the poll results. I already am fairly sure about which one shall get the highest percentage on WP.

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07 Apr 2008, 5:51 pm

Betzalel wrote:

what the hell?!? what kind of a trick poll is this. it initially read to me as which one would you choose. then i find out after I pick that I'm choosing the one I DON'T want?

It says "not" and it hasn't changed. I guess it is a small word though, should've capitalized it.

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07 Apr 2008, 5:55 pm

can you put a brief description of them all. I don't know what half of them are

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07 Apr 2008, 5:59 pm

MR_BOGAN wrote:

can you put a brief description of them all. I don't know what half of them are

I can only tell you from what I personally know about Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, so I'd just be wikiing the rest. If you have no personal bias, pick "other".

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07 Apr 2008, 6:02 pm

Ok I choose other.

I like lepricorns, so I think I will believe in them then. :dwarf:

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07 Apr 2008, 6:09 pm

MR_BOGAN wrote:

Ok I choose other.

I like lepricorns, so I think I will believe in them then. :dwarf:

I like Star Trek, therefore it is real? I believe some short people may have pointy ears, but it isn't because I like them or not. I don't want this to be a debate thread, but it just nagged me to hear that.

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07 Apr 2008, 6:19 pm

Atheism, because I think it has no hope, but Wicca was also down there with it.

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07 Apr 2008, 6:20 pm

I voted for Islam, but I would prefer none of them.

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07 Apr 2008, 7:35 pm

I voted Islam, but there are so many there I could not be.

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07 Apr 2008, 7:54 pm

I choose Other - I don't think I'd want to pick Satanism. After all, Satan is an established figure in both Christian and Islamic theology, in which he has a defined role - why would I want to sign up with the losing side?

So what's wrong with Sikhs, anyway?

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07 Apr 2008, 7:58 pm

Scientology. Most people don't think it's a real religion, but most people don't think atheism is a religion either.

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07 Apr 2008, 9:15 pm

So, parakeet-man, the initial results probably are not what you had expected. Islam has taken a beating, and Judaism doesn't seem too popular, nor does atheism/humanism. "Other" leading substantially right now.

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07 Apr 2008, 9:17 pm

DeaconBlues wrote:

Should have picked other, but basically:

Sikhism has these:

A: God is the Creator.
B: God is the Universe.
The Creator is the Universe?

Perhaps in the philosophy that falls out of Darwinism everything creates itself, but I view God as eternal and self-existent Creator who is not a component of the Creation. Creation is dependent on Him, and thus cannot be Him.

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07 Apr 2008, 9:18 pm

DeaconBlues wrote:

maybe i never read enough of it but i never took satanism as being theistic but i know there are such morons. the references they make tot he devil, as best as i saw it within the context of the literature, was used as more of a metaphical character...the skepticism, the freedom from judeo-christian religious oppression...but not as a literal "we worship the devil cause god sucks!" interpretation. i like some of the satanic philosophy and i think their disdain for ignorance and apathy is revolutionary within the realm of religions. in fact, they're the only religion i can think of that makes ignorance a direct sin. but like i said earlier, i haven't read all of the satanic bible yet...some of it is too gothy/melodramatic and makes me just go 'psh...yeah, sure.'

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