What style of religious person are you?

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Well? Just curious.

Yep, raised with mono since childhood.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

I was raised by my grandparents who tried their best to make a monotheist out of me. Specifically one of the Baptist variety. It didn't work of course.

Baptist, huh? You have my sympathy.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Is that the disease or the religion?

And if you are a Trinitarian you are, perforce, a poly-theist.

If you believe that Jesus was a man, even as you and I are, then you believe God took a s**t daily.

ruveyn

Animism, Pantheism, Paganism, etc...

Of course he took a s**t daily. Maybe twice or more.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Style of religious person? I'm not a religious person.

I was raised Episcopalian,now I'm Buddhist.I don't know if there's one God or many,or any.I just hope that one day there is justice and a happy life for all.The worst problem for me was the Southern Baptist.They had a way of popping up out of nowhere and trying to convert me.They told me I was going to burn in Hell because I wasn't baptized properly,only sprinkled.Once I made the error of going to a Baptist revival and I wore a black Led Zepplin t-shirt.Talk about religious intolerance,those were the most intolerant people I've ever met.I don't want any part of their angry God.I was just walking in a park in Memphis once and a whole herd of them approached and asked me to get on my knees and pray with them,I didn't have any idea how to tell them no(I was only 15 and timid) so I wound up on my knees in a very crowded park praying with the Holy fools.I prayed they would go away,it ,must have worked because they did.They even passed me a card in a cafe once,it said "we can tell you are troubled,come pray with us".I didn't.Maybe be I should have,I'm still "troubled".

Hey, the Baptists did go away when you prayed for it. The power of prayer!
But seriously, I've argued with some of the more conservative members of WP about Baptists casting those of us not "properly baptized" into hell. They insist evangelicals aren't concerned about doctrinal differences anymore. Yeah, right.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

I bask in the glorious light of Tarvu. I am an Archmunty in my local Chabbernaggle and life has never seemed so clear or full of love and beauty to me. Tarvuism: Its so easy to join!

Life is not clear or full of love and beauty. It is complex, hard, dirty, brutal, ugly. That is called reality, brutal truth. Many people think that they need to be "beaten up" to know what existence is like. I'm like this, this is my view of the world.

Tear us down! Welcome destruction with open arms
It's all too static, bring it on, bring it on
Routine's so boring it makes me scream
Tear us down! Just tear us down!
When fate just pushes us along
..
Erase the comfort, erase the crutch
When given nothing we appreciate so much
A wake up call you want to just scream
Tear us down! Just tear us down!
On our own terms of right and wrong
..
Keep me incomplete! Keep it corroded the rust, the dust
Keep me incomplete! All sense of order can self-destruct
Keep me incomplete! Reduced to rubble and time to shine
Keep me incomplete! Tear us down and carry on
Children of nothing, this is our song
Hail destroyer! Hail Destroyer! Hail destroyer!
We're rising up from ashes!
Hail destroyer! Hail Destroyer! Hail destroyer!
Our lives begin when we fall down

The Preacher and the Bear

One day a Baptist preacher was strolling through the woods,it was a fine day and he was singing hymns.As he came around a tree he came face to face with a large black bear.The preacher was afraid and he dropped to his knees and began to pray" Please Lord Jesus,please make this a Christian bear!"The preacher rose to his feet and looked a the bear.The bear then dropped to it's knees and began to pray,"Thank you Lord Jesus for the meal you have set before me."

I just read that out loud to my wife. She thought it was hilarious.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Glad she liked it.

Same. Some of those options are not religious styles, one in particular is a lack thereof.