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Question: Which do you most identify with?
#1
Christian - Catholic
#2
Christian - Orthodox
#3
Christian - Anglican
#4
Christian - Baptist
#5
Christian - Lutheran
#6
Christian - Calvinist
#7
Christian - Presbyterian
#8
Christian - Congregationalist
#9
Christian - Methodist
#10
Christian - Adventist
#11
Christian - Anabaptist
#12
Christian - Quaker
#13
Christian - Mormon/LDS
#14
Christian - Pentacostal
#15
Christian - Charismatic
#16
Christian - Evangelical
#17
Christian - Jehovah's Witnesses
#18
Christian - Nondenominational
#19
Christian - Other
#20
Jewish - Reform
#21
Jewish - Conservative
#22
Jewish - Orthodox
#23
Jewish - Other
#24
Muslim - Sunni
#25
Muslim - Shia
#26
Muslim - Khawarij
#27
Muslim - Other
#28
Buddhist - Theravada
#29
Buddhist - Mahayana
#30
Buddhist - Vajrayana
#31
Buddhist - Other
#32
Hindu - Vaishnavism
#33
Hindu - Shaivism
#34
Hindu - Shaktism
#35
Hindu - Smartism
#36
Hindu - Other
#37
Unitarian Universalism
#38
Confucian
#39
Taoist
#40
Shinto
#41
Jain
#42
Sikh
#43
Zoroastrian
#44
Baha'i
#45
Wiccan
#46
Satanist
#47
New Age
#48
Old World/Folk/Spirits/Nature/Indigenous/Greek/Norse/Egyptian/Celtic
#49
Secular Humanism
#50
Scientology
#51
Other Nontheistic Philosophy
#52
Agnostic
#53
Atheist
#54
Other
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« on: August 20, 2015, 04:11:23 PM »
« edited: August 20, 2015, 04:40:15 PM by Delicious Steak Pentagram »

Agnostic, atheist, secular humanist, Unitarian Universalist. Really all the same thing to me.
And that is part of the reason I go to the UU church I do out of the two that are within a reasonable distance. The other had many there who think as you do.

I put down Congregationalist, UU, Confucian, Taoist, and Other. Other standing in for other schools of East Asian thought. For all of those East Asian schools, I ignore any accretions from either folk religion, shamanism, or Buddhism. Not that one can totally ignore Buddhism when dealing with East Asian thought, as Buddhist terminology is much used in later schools of thought, but the conclusions drawn in South Asian thought I reject. Also, it's not that I'm ignoring Western philosophy, but to the extent I make use of it, it's already part of Congregationalism and UU or is paralleled in East Asian thought.
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« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2015, 06:56:00 AM »

UU has a congregational organization Quadist, so a lot depends on the congregation. If you don't like the one you go to then try another. The one I go to is mostly apolitical which you would like, but it also has a heavy dose of spirituality, not exclusively of one religion, tho admittedly we have more Christians than is typical for a UU congregation these days.
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« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2015, 02:22:45 PM »

Quadist and myself already explained our "other" votes. For him, existentialism, and for me, other East Asian schools concerning the Mandate of Heaven.
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« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2015, 10:24:11 PM »

Christian other- (United Church of Christ) and an ex Lutheran.
The UCC is essentially Congregational despite having some Reformed and Lutheran roots in its history.
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« Reply #4 on: August 25, 2015, 04:40:13 PM »

Why would someone designate themselves a "Secular Humanist" rather than an atheist?
I could see agnostics adopting the Humanist label. Vice versa, not all atheists are Humanists.
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« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2015, 07:16:54 PM »

The way the Anglican church is these days, do you really need to qualify that with the word Atheist?  Now if you were a Christian Anglican you probably would need to note that peculiarity. Tongue
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« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2015, 09:55:09 PM »

Raised Episcopalian.
Briefly Southern Baptist.
Now Mahayana.

Any particular sect of Mahayana?

Yeah, there's such a wide divergence between various schools, it's not a particularly useful moniker.  I don't care for Buddhism in general, as I'm not pessimistic enough about suffering to be one, tho some forms, such as Zen, I find tolerable.
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« Reply #7 on: July 10, 2019, 08:13:14 PM »

Are there any options missing that should be included, particularly the Christian subdivisions?
Christian Science.
Why? It's a rapidly dying sect and I can't imagine that our young-skewing membership includes any, and may not even include anyone who has even visited a reading room.
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« Reply #8 on: July 24, 2019, 12:27:57 PM »

The length of this list really drives home the absurdity of adhering to any random religion on it.

People generally don't pick their religion at random, unless you consider parental influence random because you believe souls are randomly paired with fetuses in the womb.
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