2011 KW Religious Composition Poll

Post by **Vraith** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 2:23 am

So, I took it...much oddnes [especially description of "liberal Quaker"]

Your Top 3 Faith Match Profiles Are:
1. Neo-Pagan (100%)
2. Liberal Quakers (97%)
3. Unitarian Universalism (97%)

Post by **aliantha** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 3:15 am

Wow, looks like we'll have to build a UU church at the Watch commune.

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 3:39 am

I've been thinking of pastoring a Sunday Watch service.

. Despite as the head priest... We'd have to agree on some kind of creature to worship. Maybe a walrus with the head of a sealion?

Post by **Savor Dam** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 3:42 am

aliantha wrote:Wow, looks like we'll have to build a UU church at the Watch commune.

Build may not be necessary, but to either establish one or foster good relations with one in the area might be worth doing.

Without restarting a conversation that not all were comfortable with last weekend, let's just say the UUs are amenable to officiating over some unconventional commitments, and will not raise excessive objections about the parties involved remaining aligned with their legacy faiths that do not countenance what these members are doing with their lives/loves.

LF: the Church of the Pinnaped may swim...but it ain't gonna fly!

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 3:48 am

Surely, ali meant a UU here, at the Watch.

Post by **Savor Dam** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 3:58 am

Fist, I don't think so.

While we very much missed you at Elohimfest, there was a lot of discussion there and subsequently here (in the Elohimfest thread and elsewhere) about gathering like-minded Watchers somewhere and not just consorting virtually, aside from the triennial 'fests that might not occur anymore once TLD has been released and the "last 'fest" has taken place.

I have no objection to UU practice and ritual here...but ali did say "Wow, looks like we'll have to build a UU church at the Watch commune." From that, I contend her intent was to advocate for this at the physical gathering of Watchers envisioned at Elohimfest 3 and discussed here on the Watch thereafter.

ali...am I off-base?

Post by **aliantha** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 4:17 am

Nope, SD, you are spot-on. Fist, there's always such a letdown after an E-fest, and a bunch of us really liked New Mexico, and several of us old farts are closing in on retirement age. So we sorta kinda started talking about a Watchers' enclave in NM. (The discussion is in the most recent pages of the E-fest thread in the General SRD forum.) But so far it's just talk.

Just for the record, I wasn't *that* uncomfortable with the discussion last weekend. (For one thing, it wasn't happening in *my* forum! :p)

Post by **sgt.null** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 7:15 am

i am sure Alb. has a Catholic church Julie and I can join.

Post by **Loredoctor** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 8:03 am

Lord Foul wrote:
Loremaster wrote:Atheist, and proud of it.
Here...you can absorb my atheist experience points since I don't need them.

I need to reach level 15 so I can start wearing the Boots of Dawkins +4

Post by **stonemaybe** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 8:15 am

Can we have a swimming pool in our church? Maybe an infinity one?

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 9:24 am

Lord Foul wrote:Well; belief and lifestyle are often inextricably bound. Just ask the Middle-East! Or the Middle Ages. . Only recently has culture and religion divided into separate cells. Which is good. Or we'd be doing Crusade #133.

Still; in ways we often don't see, our beliefs reflect how we want to live.

I was referring to the studies done which showed that there was a massive difference in the UK between the number of people who answer "Christian" on the census, and the number of people who answer "Yes" to"Do you believe there is a god?". 15% of people answer "no religion" to the census; 30-40% answer "no" in other surveys where the question is posed differently.

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 12:28 pm

Ah! Sorry SD. I, of course, didn't know about that conversation in Alb.

Post by **Vraith** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 1:40 pm

Murrin wrote:
Lord Foul wrote:Well; belief and lifestyle are often inextricably bound. Just ask the Middle-East! Or the Middle Ages. . Only recently has culture and religion divided into separate cells. Which is good. Or we'd be doing Crusade #133.

Still; in ways we often don't see, our beliefs reflect how we want to live.
I was referring to the studies done which showed that there was a massive difference in the UK between the number of people who answer "Christian" on the census, and the number of people who answer "Yes" to"Do you believe there is a god?". 15% of people answer "no religion" to the census; 30-40% answer "no" in other surveys where the question is posed differently.

Reminds me of a survey/study on matters religious I ran across years ago, I think while working on a paper about "A Lesson Before Dying"...don't remember exact numbers now, but something like 10% of people who don't believe any heaven exists say they're going to go to heaven...

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 1:42 pm

I can do that?!?

Post by **Avatar** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 4:52 am

Loremaster wrote:
Lord Foul wrote:
Loremaster wrote:Atheist, and proud of it.
Here...you can absorb my atheist experience points since I don't need them.
I need to reach level 15 so I can start wearing the Boots of Dawkins +4

Awesome.

Murrin wrote:I was referring to the studies done which showed that there was a massive difference in the UK between the number of people who answer "Christian" on the census, and the number of people who answer "Yes" to"Do you believe there is a god?".

Religious affiliation, I've often thought, is often more a combination of upbringing and habit than other things.

--A

Post by **Harbinger** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 10:26 pm

1. Nontheist (100%)
2. Secular Humanism (100%)
3. Unitarian Universalism (96%)

Post by **ussusimiel** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 8:49 pm

*bump*

u.

Post by **ussusimiel** » Fri Aug 26, 2011 8:46 pm

The results are in:

Judeo-Christian . . . . . . .29.5%

Buddhist . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4%

The Rest . . . . . . . . . . . 66.5%

Does that seem right?

About 2-to-1 non-religious-to-religious?

u.

Post by **aliantha** » Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:14 pm

Wait just a durn minute there, Mister Sir. How are you defining religious? Are you lumping Neopagans in with "the rest" and calling us non-religious?

Post by **Vraith** » Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:16 pm

ussusimiel wrote:The results are in:

Judeo-Christian . . . . . . .29.5%

Buddhist . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4%

The Rest . . . . . . . . . . . 66.5%

Does that seem right?

About 2-to-1 non-religious-to-religious?

u.

No, it ain't right, I don't think. [well...maybe you are/it is, but I'd parse it differently...like this]: Only "atheist" qualifies completely as "non-religious," I would say...so it would be roughly 30% judeo-christian, 45% non-specific religiousity, 25% non-religious. [a 6 to 9 to 5 ratio, roughly...or a 3 to 1 religious-like to non-religious]

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2011 KW Religious Composition Poll

With which of these labels do you self-identify?