What Religion are you?

[Teeth]

EBM may stand for:
Electron beam melting, a type of additive manufacturing for metal parts
Electronic body music, a music genre
"Epic Beard Man", see AC Transit Bus fight
Espresso Book Machine, a print-on-demand book printing press
Evidence-based medicine, an approach to medical research and practice
Expressed breast milk
Extrusion blow molding, a manufacturing process

Ebm may stand for:
E flat minor

Which EBM is your avatars'?

[The_Angle]

Music genre.

[Ninja_Khorin]

Khorin is right on that. A circle is no sphere.

The Bible doesn't state that the earth is flat, just to be clear.

Well, that quote did say
"He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
   and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,
   and spreads them out like a tent to live in."

Circle is two dimensional, in other words flat.
And that the world is a tent. In other words, the ground is flat and the "roof" in the tent metaphor are the heavens. So in essense it would look like half a sphere/circle from the sides with a flat ground.

[Original_Sin]

I'm presbyterian.

btw what's with the Eastern Orthodox Church? everybody knows that it's a part of Christianity, but I didn't see it in "the vote".
you really don't count those guys, eh?

[Ninja_Khorin]

I was having a discussion on this topic lately. And it made me wonder if most of the non-religious are just in a phase. Because usually when you see stats about the beliefs of a population the non-religious are in a clear minority. Do most people convert later on? Or is there fault in the surveys where they assume that belonging to a church = religious? Or is the tide really changing and in 50 years the population belief statistics will look like this? Or is it just that internet dwellers are just less religious that others?

I guess it's a mix of all of them. But I'd be interested in seeing similar statistics from the 50s-60s and 20s-30s among 20-25 year olds.


Also on another note. I often notice that people have a false view of what agnosticism is. Being an atheist does not rule out being an agnostic aswell.

Agnosticism answers the question "Is God knoweable?"
Atheism answers the question "Do you believe in God?"

There are also many variations of agnosticism and atheism. I tend to define myself as an implicit atheist weak agnostic with a pinch of apatheism


Implicit atheist: I do not believe in God, because of lack of evidence, but I do not deny the possibility of that evidence existance. God might exist, we just lack the evidence.
Weak agnostic: I do not know whether God is knoweable or not. It might be that it is impossible to prove God's existance. If that is the case I'll continue to not believe.
Apatheist: I do not care if God exists or not, because of this:
"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."

Yes, I realize this is a little necro, but it was an interesting discussion. Also got inspired by the Jehova's Witnesses knocking on the door the other day again calling me a blasphemer.

[Osiris]

"is there fault in the surveys where they assume that belonging to a church = religious?"


Well You can see it in most surveys.

People in the UK for example just tick christian. I know many people who did that even though they dont really belive in god and never go to church apart from weddings and funerals. Its just a thing people do

In my entire time at school i think i met 1-3 actual christians.

[Gravoth_iii]

Religion is baad, Mkaay?

And i am truly offended that Asatro isnt on here, i believe in Tor and Oden!

[Ninja_Khorin]

Religion is baad, Mkaay?

And i am truly offended that Asatro isnt on here, i believe in Tor and Oden!

I guess it's "other cultural religion" or "magical discipline"

[Gravoth_iii]

I guess it's "other cultural religion" or "magical discipline"

I think it deserves to get its own vote thingy, cant find the word for it >_>. This game being full of vikings and shit should have more people believing in viking gods! ;)

[ManOfWar]

What is the definition of truly christian?

[Brrrak]

Nice, I like a poll that isn't biased one way or the other (but does fall into some holes

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where are the Eastern Orthodox, or Ethiopian Orthodox, or any of the Asian churches on that list?

for whatever reasons) regarding religion.

[Xant]

Well you can't possibly include ALL the made-up stuff people believe in.

[exelence]

I believe in, myself, my friends, my country, Scandinavia. in that order.
I do will not whatsoever believe in any god whatsoever before I see any proof, and I've yet to see this proof. and no, you cannot proof something doesnt exist.

[Dezilagel]

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[B3RS3RK]

I believe in god, however my Faith differs from the typical religions a lot(I have a different view on the happenings of Evolution etc. than most religious or atheistic people).

I still consider myself christian because that´s the religion I feel the most fitting, and Evangelic Christianity is the most tolerant religion available.