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Post by gameboy on May 26, 2019 18:25:55 GMT
What religion/philosophy do you most strongly identify with?
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Post by clusium on May 26, 2019 20:48:13 GMT
What religion/philosophy do you most strongly identify with? How come you only showed the denominations of Christianity, but not of any the other religions? 
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Post by gameboy on May 27, 2019 0:57:53 GMT
What religion/philosophy do you most strongly identify with? How come you only showed the denominations of Christianity, but not of any the other religions? Well obviously there are more Christians here than Muslims, Hindus or Buddhists. I mean obviously there are plenty of Catholics and Protestants. But there aren't enough Hindus to start listing every Hindu sect. Is there even one Hindu here?
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Post by The Herald Erjen on May 27, 2019 1:30:40 GMT
Oh, goody! I love surveys!
Christian, nondenominational.
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Post by maya55555 on May 27, 2019 1:40:03 GMT
gameboy
You list needs tweaking. I am still digging your horns.
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Post by gameboy on May 27, 2019 3:20:32 GMT
Oh, goody! I love surveys! Christian, nondenominational. Erjen, quite frankly, in the context of modern American society, nondenominational is most likely Protestant. If you reject Rome and the Pope, you're aligned with Luther and the others who broke with the Catholic Church. Sure, there are Gnostic Christians, but from reading your posts for years, I don't think you are one.
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Post by gameboy on May 27, 2019 3:23:05 GMT
gameboy
You list needs tweaking. I am still digging your horns. Thanks. Horns are Gnostic. Tweaked how? What's missing? What's wrong?
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Post by The Herald Erjen on May 27, 2019 3:24:13 GMT
Oh, goody! I love surveys! Christian, nondenominational. Erjen, quite frankly, in the context of modern American society, nondenominational is most likely Protestant. If you reject Rome and the Pope, you're aligned with Luther and the others who broke with the Catholic Church. Sure, there are Gnostic Christians, but from reading your posts for years, I don't think you are one. Sorry you feel that way, gameboy. You've got four different kinds of Christianity listed, and I frankly don't identify with any of them.
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Post by clusium on May 27, 2019 3:40:18 GMT
How come you only showed the denominations of Christianity, but not of any the other religions? Well obviously there are more Christians here than Muslims, Hindus or Buddhists. I mean obviously there are plenty of Catholics and Protestants. But there aren't enough Hindus to start listing every Hindu sect. Is there even one Hindu here? Yes. Aj_June.
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Post by gameboy on May 27, 2019 3:50:58 GMT
Erjen, quite frankly, in the context of modern American society, nondenominational is most likely Protestant. If you reject Rome and the Pope, you're aligned with Luther and the others who broke with the Catholic Church. Sure, there are Gnostic Christians, but from reading your posts for years, I don't think you are one. Sorry you feel that way, gameboy. You've got four different kinds of Christianity listed, and I frankly don't identify with any of them. Okay, I wasn't aware non-denominational is any different from Protestant. Here's a good simple critique of it though:
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Post by The Herald Erjen on May 27, 2019 3:56:10 GMT
Sorry you feel that way, gameboy. You've got four different kinds of Christianity listed, and I frankly don't identify with any of them. Okay, I wasn't aware non-denominational is any different from Protestant. Here's a good simple critique of it though: Thanks. I had to tell Ned Kelly several times that I am not a Protestant. If he still doesn't get it, perhaps this critique will help to straighten him out.
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Post by gameboy on May 27, 2019 4:52:10 GMT
Okay, I wasn't aware non-denominational is any different from Protestant. Here's a good simple critique of it though: Thanks. I had to tell Ned Kelly several times that I am not a Protestant. If he still doesn't get it, perhaps this critique will help to straighten him out. That's not a flattering description though. It basically say non-denominational is sloppy ignorant Christianity.
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Post by gameboy on May 27, 2019 4:56:34 GMT
Well obviously there are more Christians here than Muslims, Hindus or Buddhists. I mean obviously there are plenty of Catholics and Protestants. But there aren't enough Hindus to start listing every Hindu sect. Is there even one Hindu here? Yes. Aj_June . I don't think Aj_June considers himself Hindu.
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Post by clusium on May 27, 2019 5:04:38 GMT
I don't think Aj_June considers himself Hindu. Well, not a religious one, but, in background. Kind of like how atheists brought up in the Jewish faith, still identify with it.
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Post by gameboy on May 27, 2019 5:13:42 GMT
I don't think Aj_June considers himself Hindu. Well, not a religious one, but, in background. Kind of like how atheists brought up in the Jewish faith, still identify with it. Okay, I get your point. I was baptized Greek Orthodox but don't believe in it. But I still consider myself nominally Greek Orthodox and want an Orthodox priest at my funeral. I'm curious to see AJ's view on it.
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Post by geode on May 27, 2019 8:00:04 GMT
I selected "Other"... Even though multiple categories are listed for Christians, none of them fit me. Like Erjen I am a non-denominational Christian. If I fit into one of the "Christian" choices offered I would no longer be non-denominational. I am not a Protestant.
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Post by phludowin on May 27, 2019 8:26:51 GMT
The thing with multiple choice is that there always are separations and groupings not everybody agrees upon.
In Christianity, there is not only Catholic, Protestant Orthodox, nondenominational, other... even Protestants can separate themselves into sects. And in Germany there's the Roman-Catholic Church and the "Altkatholiken" (literally "Old Catholics"; not Protestant, but reject the infaillability of the Pope).
We could even group the religions; Judaism, Christianity and Islam are all Abrahamitic monotheistic religions. Unitarian Universalism and Baha'i are also based on them.
I voted "Atheist/Agnostic", although I consider myself a weak atheist, but not agnostic.
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Post by Morgana on May 27, 2019 12:10:18 GMT
What religion/philosophy do you most strongly identify with? Non-demoninational Christian
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Post by maya55555 on May 27, 2019 14:57:12 GMT
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Post by gameboy on May 27, 2019 18:09:09 GMT
You're correct. Lumping Gnosticism in with the Occult was a mistake. I've seen Mormon theologians claim Mormonism is a form neo-Gnosticism. But the Gnostics were looking into ideas which Rome considered heresies. The Gnostics were mystics. I was trying to offer broad categories as opposed to dividing the whole theme into dozens of smaller sects.
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