Religious affiliations of Prius owners

I agree on both counts. Many people who call themselves Christians do so because they certainly can't call themselves Muslims or Jews, so they must be Christians. Plus, they've even been to church several times (if you count weddings and funerals).

In years past, and to some extant still today, homosexuals have not been treated well by many mainline Christian groups (or Muslim groups for that matter), so it wouldn't surprise me if they migrated outside of at least the mainstream Christian groups more so than other people.

Okay, I have no clue what you said. I got the Venn diagrams, and the idea that PriusChat is not necessarily representative of the overall population, but that last sentence in particular threw me.


I didn't see a category for an agnostic Christian. I go to church regularly and generally find it interesting, but I'm not really sure why.

 

I am Jewish.

 

His holy noodliness, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is also not included, and only one person made a reference to the FSM.

 

I love that guy, but I'm concerned he may not be real.

I've just never seen proof of his existence, and I'm questioning my faith ...

I guess it's just my dark night of the soul messing with me

 

Or...



You prefer a different sauce...



Pesto...
Afredo...
Tomato...
3 Cheese...
4 Cheese...
X Cheese...
Mushroom...
Brown...
Green...
Red...
Oyster...
Or...

 

Wikipedia's Religion in America was the best link I could find. Depending on how you define not-religious, that figure is 10-20% in America on most surveys.

 

Yet in most Scandinavian countries, the figure is closer to 80 or 90%. I wonder why there's such a huge discrepancy?

 

I have a partial explanation of why Europe is more secular than America - the US never had a state church, unlike most of Europe. Churches in Europe would be more linked with politics and as such turned off more people....until recently, this has not been the case in America. The sharp turn to secularism after the revolutions in France, then Russia are in part because the church as seen as a supporter of the previous regime.

 

Better education, perhaps?

Tom

 

Nah, it's to do with Socialism

In Europe the State looks after you if you get ill, whereas in the USA God help you!

 

i don't see what the relevance is. i was talking about the US. scandinavia is whole different culture and i can't speak to that.

 

As the great Depeche Mode once said, "People are people". What does it matter they are in Scandinavia? Does your god smite all those outside your geo-political boundaires?

 

After reading the bible from cover to cover, old and new testiment, I came to the conclusion I am god. I am god for me and you are god for you.

Where ever I go there I am, I always hear my prayers, I have the strongest influence over my life and destiny, I can change the environment around me, I percieve therefore create everything I observe, with my 5 senses (in my mind).

I may not have control over the universe but I have more control over the part of it I am in than anyone else does.

I also have only 1 child, a boy I call Jesus ...
Well Sean actually.

 

Been walking about without a hat?

Bob Wilson

 

Due to the overwhelming evidence and indisputable logic, I'm changing my religion to Napkinism.

 

Put it in a few youtube videos, go on a daytime talk show, and you will have a half a bagillion followers pretty soon.

 

Catholic by birth.
Everybody should read this [ame="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-God-Delusion/dp/B0031RSA24/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1293980170&sr=8-2"]book[/ame] and make up their minds.
I am agnostic, going quickly towards atheist.
Since this forum is about cars and the Prius, I find the topic not really relevant - but there you go, you know my secret.

 

Organized religions usually represent belief systems based upon interpretations of events that have in some way been documented. I am not qualified to place a value on the religious beliefs of other people (within reason).

Religion is different than being spiritual. How we arrive at our core values after we strip away the teachings of our culture leaves us with some internal sense of right and wrong. Those core values come from somewhere within us. Some people choose to interpret those core beliefs as being given by God and some may simply call it humanity, but we all have them from the Atheist to the most devout Christian.

To me, those beliefs are to be respected so long as they do not interfere with the beliefs of others.

This afternoon I will be conducting a wedding in my role as minister. I choose to respect and honor the beliefs of the bride and groom (which are different than my own). Part of my role will be to help the families (who have different religious beliefs) come together to celebrate the marriage with joy and good will and without prejudice. In that way I can help people accept others who are different than themselves.

I simply believe that every person has a right to choose their own way to explore and celebrate their own beliefs. Sometimes those beliefs may follow the path or a particular religion and sometimes not. The belief of an Atheist I see as no less real or valid any other belief, and perhaps in some way it requires additional strength of conviction due to less open support from the people around us.

 

Atheism and believing in a higher being is pretty absolute. You believe there is no god or your believe in a god. You might be evangelical about at or just keep it to your self. How about agnosticism. Is there varying degrees of agnosticism? Is there such a thing as an evangelical agnostics?

 

If you use the definition that doesn't directly refer to Christianity, then yes.

Evangelical:
1. ....
2. ....
3. marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause


There are many varieties of agnostic

An Agnostic by the original definition, lets call then a Fundamentalist Agnostic, believes that they don't know if there is a god, that no one else knows either and that it isn't knowable by man whether there is a god or not.

My view is that I don't know but if there is a god and she want's me to know she exists she will be able to let me know that she exists.