Cred Forums RELIGION POLL

I'll bite
>1. Your country
America
>2. Your ethnicity
White
>3. Your religion
Protestant
>4. How did you end following it?
Born into it, but agree with it, so I doubt I'll switch.
>5. Describe your religion using as fewer words as possible
A breakaway sect of Christianity that was displeased with the Catholics.

>1. Your country
Canada
>2. Your ethnicity
Hazara
>3. Your religion
Shia Islam/Agnostic
>4. How did you end following it?
Born to half-assed Muslim family who didn't really follow the religion
>5. Describe your religion using as fewer words as possible
Islam without suicide bombs

1. Hungary
2. White
3. Reformed protestant
4. Family, but I guess if I was born in a catholic family, I would choose protestantism as well
5. Don't be a cuck, praise God only, not people

Gods are mental projections in Buddhism.

They exist if you want them to, because they are a part of yourself.

I don't. I find it unnecessary.

I know nothing about that desu

We do have rastafarianism but it's not as widespread as people think. A lot of people do it but not like, a huge number of people. Maybe ~100,000 here. I do know this also happens in Europe and other Caribbean places too.

I do know it's about Haile Selassie being some guy from Africa where they think he is a messiah and his lifestyle and lessons will bring freedom for all people or something. I cant give you details because I'm just an anglican/deist.

Tunisia
Arab-berber
agnosticism
By not getting convinced by islamic thinking lessons in high school and apreciating humanist /nihilist... Philosophy
Better than wasting time for some old corrupted relegions

This except Im Sunni

>1. Your country
Sweden
>2. Your ethnicity
Swedish
>3. Your religion
Atheist
>4. How did you end following it?
Mother is lutheran-lite, father is atheist. They decided to let me figure it out myself.
>5. Describe your religion using as fewer words as possible
Lack of religious faith

>1. Your country
Italy
>2. Your ethnicity
Italian
>3. Your religion
None (atheist)
>4. How did you end following it?
I just thought about it and realized I had no faith
>5. Describe your religion using as fewer words as possible
It's not a religion, it's denying there's a personal God

1. Russia
2. Russian
3. Baha'i
4. Just thought that it suits my philosophy.
5. Lack of english skills doesnt fallow me to understand that paragraph.

Do they have an own will?

Ah I see, How is religion in Jamaicca in general?
A topic that causes friction or do worshippers of different denominations get along with each other and seculars?

I just misread
5. Reconciling

I don't understand that sentence. Do you mean if buddhism has a purpose? in that case is the end of suffering.

1.Sri Lanka
2.Sinhalese
3.Agnostic-Buddhist
4.Born to it, became less religious growing up
5.seeking enlightenment and such

Nah, have the mental projections an own will if worshipped long enough?
Does the number of people remembering the same deity influence its power?

The way you described bhuddist deitys sounds like the way gods function in the discworld romans which suprises me.

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R A R E

1. England
2. White/English
3. agnostic atheist
4. a lot of doubt and cynicism
5. ehh, you could be right but im going to wait and see

It really depends.

It is generally something that everyone gets along over. Secular people and religious people are usually chill. But there is still friction over how some people are a little too fundie, or who wanna go full secular .

There was a big thing over casinos wanting to be open on sundays, for example, which led to people saying "should we really be doing this, which led to 7th Day Adventists talking about how it's already open on saturdays and they dont care, and then it got all confusing. I have no idea what eventually happened but I assume people stopped caring.

Also the typical gay people boogeyman in some circles like other places, though it looks like people are starting to care less about that too. I know at my university most people dont give a shit anymore

1. England/The UK
2. White/English
3. agnostic atheist
4. a lot of doubt and cynicism
5. ehh, you could be right but im going to wait and see.

the fuck? i tried to post the first one and it said "no that didnt happen" next thing i see is that it did.

1. America
2. white/german ethnicity
3. asatru
4. went to an Asatru Folk Assembly gathering once to see what it's about and it was awesome. Great people and great atmosphere
5. muh heritage

That sounds chill and not above a reasonable level of occasional squabbles which are a part of being faithful or living with them I guess.

Yes to both questions shortly said, it needs more explanation but I'm not highly informed on it, since I don't worship anything, I don't need to since I accept that the mind is everything.

>1. Your country
Canada.
>2. Your ethnicity
Anglo.
>3. Your religion
Anglican.
>4. How did you end following it?
God-tier aesthetics.
>5. Describe your religion using as fewer words as possible
Retake Jerusalem.

Am I the only satanist on Cred Forums?

1. usa
2. 50% italian 50% polish
3. catholic (kinda)
4. i was born
5. most agreeable version of christianity imo

It's chill as fuck man.

desu there's a lot of things I didnt know were issues until seeing them abroad. Like here everyone just gets their shots in prep school and we're all hyped about missing half the school day and joking about being brave enough for the needle

then I find out there's some fucking huge controversy over vaccination in america and I have no idea why. Also those guys gave us the damn Zika virus

>Anglican
my angli

Thats interesting, so humans have power over minor gods at first and can choose how much power they want these thoughtforms to have over them as worshippers in the end, thx.

>muh heritage
Germanic polytheism differed in some ways from the scandinavian one which asatru is derived from, southern and western tribes syncretisated their religion with celtic and roman pantheons while others had unique tribal gods such as saxnut which are not to be found in the edda.

Id advise you to read some english translation of Wilhelm Mannhardts work or The brother grimms "german mythology" along other 18th-18th century folklore experts.

Peasants were still barely christian in the pure sense dring that time as that-for example- westfahlian hillybillis not only went to the church but also knelt down bareheaded and sung a short rhiming apology to the "elderberry woman" after collecting from "her" bushes among similar beliefs which were pagan as fuck but only died with the industrialisation as people got more educated in the citys and alienated from non-metropolian rites.

That should give you a better idea then clinging to nordicism alone.

>The brother grimms "german mythology"

I have that along with some other German folklore books and a history of the Germanic tribes. The problem is no one around here focuses solely on the continental aspects of Germanic culture. So for this to be a religion and more than just studying history you got to go to the nordic focused groups. Which to me, isn't that big of a deal since I think the similarities outweigh the differences. Although I'd like it if I could find a group that was focused on the German versions of the myths and gods and German heritage more but it's more important to be with other people you know?

Glad to see at least half the board isn't cucked
1. America
2. Half beaner, half Czech
3. None/Self-Worship, my parents are Catholic
4. I was 9, in Sunday school, and I realized I didn't need god in my life to be happy or fulfilled.
5. I think I'm the only person who actually exists and don't care about what consequences my actions have on others

> I think I'm the only person who actually exists

I remember being 12 as well.

Oh thats nice.
I did not want to advise you to switch the group, simply tell you about the sources beyond the scandinavian stuff which get often ignored because they are either not known or deemed boring in contrast to the iconic stuff you find in popculture. (just as attempts at theological foundation laying-but I dont want to dive into criticism.)

Not related to germanics but you might like this read about an enclave of indo european pagans in afghanistan that got jihaded in the 19th century.
archive.org/stream/kfirsofhinduku00robeuoft#page/n9/mode/2up

Don't think nihilism and the such is popular with 12 year olds but i tip my fedora to you m'lady

1. US/Canada dual national
2. Anglophone North American
3. Atheist / Cultural Catholic
4. My dad was irreligious and my mom was an ultra-nominal protestant Christian who later lost faith entirely, so I grew up in a situation where Christianity was sort of present but not taken seriously. Later on, when I started going to community college, I had a Jesuit professor who really took me under his wing and had me work for him as a thesis advisor. He taught me a lot about Catholicism and Ignatian spirituality, got me to enroll in Latin classes, and got me involved in the Jesuit community in my area. Although I never came to faith I feel tremendously attached to Catholicism and have been confirmed, attend mass frequently, and spend a lot of time reading theology and memorizing prayers.
5. Great synthesis between modernity and the sort of community, aesthetics, guidance, and tradition that religion can uniquely provide.

Nihilism has nothing in common with thinking that you are the only one really existing human, it has a lot in common with youthful maximalism

I mean your point

1. A FUCKING LEAF
2. Currynigger
3. Sikhism
4. Born into it
5. Are brotier

ha ha facebook image

>simply tell you about the sources beyond the scandinavian stuff which get often ignored because they are either not known or deemed boring in contrast to the iconic stuff you find in popculture

Yes. I think the problem is when people get dissatisfied with christianity or athiesm or whatever and look elsewhere it's very hard and even moreso for Americans or Canadians to find asatru at all. Let alone getting into Anglo-Saxon beliefs or the ancient German ones. It's just not that accessible or well known here. So people find the norse versions the most easily and then since there's not many groups around yet, it's like homework just to get yourself up to speed with what asatru is all about. So they then don't really move on to their own heritage even though most Americans who do get into this are mostly German descent. Like I met this one guy who's grand parents emigrated here form Germany and he could still speak a little bit of it, but he learned old norse before looking at any of the old German sources. I don't know. It's weird sometimes but I think it's good that the norse version is having a revival and I'm sure once it gets bigger there will be German focused groups as well.

And thanks for the link this does look interesting so far.

You lads are thinking of solipsism.

>1. Your country
Russia
>2. Your ethnicity
White (Slav, Russian)
>3. Your religion
Atheist
>4. How did you end following it?
Dunno, honestly. Most of people in my family is
>5. Describe your religion using as fewer words as possible
That doesn't matter who you are and what you believe in, if you a good guy, we can be friends.

>1. Your country
Flag
>2. Your ethnicity
Anglo Canadian
>3. Your religion
Deism
>4. How did you end following it?
Drift from Catholicism.
>5. Describe your religion using as fewer words as possible
God exists but is not involved in worldly affairs.

1) Argentina
2) White
3) Catholicism
4) Was born as a catholic
5) Idk desu

>Assumes what it is that I want
>Assumes that any of the options would involve an 'exchange of the soul'
>assumes that the choices have nothing to offer
>assumes the soul does not exist
>assumes that because these options are made by animals, that means they are not of value, that they are therefore not of significant value
>assumes a lack of purpose
>assumes no need of defense
>assumes no need of hatred
>assumes what I do not need to do
>assumes a conclusion
Where is the argument?

Funny how Europe is going to sleep and America is waking up and atheism went from 60% to 46%

Eh, you americans are not particulary cringy when it comes to attempts to revive european polytheism- the last serious attempt to do so here died with friedrich hielscher who filled the gaps with early christianity and always went for putting an apologetic/explanation before a belief and not the other way around.

Since then you have them cropping up with the newage wave of the 70s again and it makes me a bit ashamed to think of them as they take mostly muh popculture/wicca/esoteritard /ahistorical theory and blend it together into a disguting mess connected with an ridiculous victim complex over christianisation as their holocaust.

youtube.com/watch?v=5LgCuvb79eQ
youtube.com/watch?v=S9m4TYDIcoc

>1) Argentina
>2) White

1. flag
2. white
3. atheist
4. family and others tried to brainwash me into catholicism but i ve always doubted in god, even as a little kid.
5. ""true christian religion""

Whatever ya say bud

USA
Italian
Catholic
was Atheist, God revealed himself to me, so I became Catholic
Truth

>the last serious attempt to do so here died with friedrich hielscher who filled the gaps with early christianity and always went for putting an apologetic/explanation before a belief and not the other way around.

That's unfortunate. You have a rich history of pagan revivals.

>Since then you have them cropping up with the newage wave of the 70s again

I hate that. There's one group when I was first getting into this in a city near me and it was run by a (((cohen))) and had blacks in the group worshiping Woden kek. I really honestly believe these hippy groups we have here and probably in Germany also are just controlled and designed to co-opt this movement. I mean one of the basic tenets of this is revering your ancestors and folk, and immediately jews hijack it and bring non-whites in. Strange no?

People call them "wicca-tru" here. Weirdos blending fucking egyptian gods along with Donnar and even some doing crazy shit beyond that. It's sick and disgraceful.

Luckily though the AFA is the biggest group here in America and they're volkish.

youtube.com/watch?v=RYPjGGJLUdo

>1. Your country
fleg
>2. Your ethnicity
Portuguese with a smudge of native, y'know
3. Your religion
Raised as a Kardecist, I'm currently agnostic
4. How did you end following it?
Agnosticism? Kardecism helped a lot, being so open as it is. It's not like I don't believe in anything anymore, I just think religion as an institution is not a good thing in a world like today.
5. Describe your religion using as fewer words as possible
It's not complicated, I just believe in what I want to.

Oh, fucked up with the greentext there.

>1. Your country
hue
>2. Your ethnicity
mestizo
>3. Your religion
catholic
>4. How did you end following it?
born into it
>5. Describe your religion using as fewer words as possible
pretty comfy and with cool history

1. India (In USA)
2. Irani
3. Zoroastrian
4. Born into it
5. More monotheistic version of vedic faith.

>was Atheist, God revealed himself to me, so I became Catholic

Could you describe that experience? Genuine question, desu.

1. Your country
Flag

2. Your ethnicity
White, of Anglo-Irish settler diaspora, with some Scandinavian, French, and a distant bit of German.

3. Your religion
Atheist, but raised Catholic and went to Christian private schooling.

4. How did you end following it?
Even as a kid I realized the overall and constant hypocrisy of not only Christianity, but religion in general. Tips fedora, sure, but that's my serious answer. It never clicked for me, and never made any sense to me.

5. Describe your religion using as fewer words as possible
I enjoy being an atheist.

1. Your country
Burgerland
2. Your ethnicity
White
3. Your religion
Christianity
4. How did you end following it?
Reading the bible, studying catholic teachings

5. Describe your religion using as fewer words as possible
Jesus is our Lord and Savior

1- There's a flag above my post Carlos
2- Portuguese/Caucasian
3- Heretic (Christian)
4- Don't fully agree with any of the christian branches that I know of.
5- Read 4

>when a poortuguese has to explicitly point out that he's caucasian

>1. Your country
Japan
>2. Your ethnicity
Mongoloid
>3. Your religion
Shinto and Buddhism at the same time
>4. How did you end following it?
When sarin gas attack was perpetrated by AumShinrikyo i realized that all religions are bullshit.
>5. Describe your religion using as fewer words as possible
Boring

>controlled
kek no.
Never underestimate the power of people wanting to make up beliefs only to validate their ego or simply due to general inner confusion.
You got 50 year old catladys buying "magic" stones after all, there is simply no boundary to excessive superstition.

>non euros worhipping X

While you making an ethnic religion out of it may seem just natural and will draw more serious devotees to it you should keep in mind that pagans back then-while not being universalitic hippies-were not much concerned with racial groups and exchanged gods or equated them to each other freely except for some designated ethnic ones who were only for a certain group/race of people.

Wodan-Odin being equated to Mercurious or the celtic grannus being put equal to the latin Apollum and worshipped by both peoples should show that the most important members of the pantheons were seen as everyones gods (which makes sense if you think of them as keepers of the universe who think in higher terms then mortal tribalism.)
Hell, in cologne a city founded around 90bc in the rhineland and were also peoples and soldiers from other provinces lived not only roman and local deities such as the matron trias or the war godess Vagdavercustis were accepted but also a temple to the egyptian Isis and the persian Mithras was found.
If you like it or not, thats not a sign that people did not cross-worship if living in the same spot.

Having a family/village or race/group patron only for your kind seems to have been common, but dont claim a highgod who keeps the universe together for it-albeit that is advice of an infidel so ignore it and do your thing if it fulfills you.

Troll satanism or theistic satanismo

It's because we aren't technically caucasian, I just said it so I didn't have to explain that being portuguese is a mixture of almost all the world, we even have two genes that only portuguese people have. If you intended to say that as na insult, we really do want to be in a different classification than "caucasian", because that one isn't really us. It technically is but, y'know...

1. Your country
Burger
2. Your ethnicity
Scots
3. Your religion
Islam
4. How did you end following it?
Converted at 15/16
5. Describe your religion using as fewer words as possible
It's the main focus of my life, most of my free time is spent reading religious texts, listening to lectures or nasheeds
It's really lonely though

>You got 50 year old catladys buying "magic" stones after all

Lol yeah you're right. Still though I don't think it's just a coincidence (((they))) are trying so hard to make asatru universalist here.

> should keep in mind that pagans back then-while not being universalitic hippies-were not much concerned with racial groups and exchanged gods or equated them to each other freely except for some designated ethnic ones who were only for a certain group/race of people.

I don't think they were so in the middle like that. I think they were more concerned with their tribe but I could be wrong. Like in that "Germanization of early Medieval Christianity" book some christians treated other pagan tribes differently depending on if they were their kin or not. Also with what the vikings thought of the natives in North America seems to indicate to me they were pretty tribal.

> but also a temple to the egyptian Isis and the persian Mithras was found.
Interesting. I'll have to read up on that.

1. Portugal
2. White according to dna test but not by memes.
3. Catholic but not a big believer
4. Parents are cstholic and go to mass
5. Very relaxed way of being religious I think people don't care of what you are.

1. Usa
2. White
3. Christian
4. Was born into it and the stories are inspiring and interesting. Plus the crusades brought more interest
5. Willing to help a person no matter who they are but don't piss us off it usually gets violent

1-Spain
2-Med
3-Christian
4-Education since I was a child, but now I follow it on my own way. I dont believe in the Church. Really it is more like deism and culturally christian.
5-Try to do that I think it is correct

1. Flag
2. Mestizo
3. Deist, with some catholic remanent
4. I was born and raised catholic, but after reading and thinking about it, I just found so many things illogical in religion. I still believe there is a god, and I still praise the forgiveness, helping hand attitude that the primitive church use to preach.
5. There is a god, but religions are unnecesary

>1. Your country
United States of America
>2. Your ethnicity
None; I am a cultureless whitey.
>3. Your religion
None
>4. How did you end up following it?
I grew up in a nominally Roman Catholic family, but my parents and siblings were never very devout. We all slowly fell out of the religion.
>5. Describe your religion using as few words as possible.
I do not want one nor need one.

Of Scottish/Irish/German/French heritage. Forgot to add that

1. Faroe Islands
2. Nordic
3. Atheist
4. Not really anything to follow, really. Just realized I didn't believe in the divine when I was 14 or so, then started reading up on religion and Atheism.
5. Absence of

>1. Your country
Argentina
>2. Your ethnicity
Brazilian-like slightly pink
>3. Your religion
Jew
>4. How did you end following it?
It's personal
>5. Describe your religion using as fewer words as possible
Family values, tradition, mysticism, charity, autistic

THE FUCKING MUZZIES

>1. Your country
Canada
>2. Your ethnicity
Portuguese
>3. Your religion
Catholic
>4. How did you end following it?
I didn't. I'm still a faithful Catholic.
>5. Describe your religion using as fewer words as possible
Challenging.

1) Brazil.
2) "Brazilian".
3) None.
4) Grew up in a catholic family but eventually turned atheist as I gradually developed some sense of skepticism.
5) " ".

1) Canada and Australia
2) Assyrian (Chaldean)
3) Culturally Chaldean Catholic
4) Born into it
5) The right path for humanity

>USA
>Bosnain
>Atheist
>My family are "muslims"-they don't follow any of the rules day-to-day and religion was such a non-issue anyways, so it was just really a name change-but now I can eat bacon. Also I'm gay t'bh
>M'lord

we need a new crusade

People like you with no cultural, religious or ethnic identity are boring and degenerate. Kys

>1. Your country
UAE
>2. Your ethnicity
Sandhuman
>3. Your religion
Islam
>4. How did you end following it?
born into it
>5. Describe your religion using as fewer words as possible
Once you're in you can't leave.

1.Kantâhk

2.native Cree

3.a mixture of traditional native spiritual and new age stuff

4.grew up around it. Went full throttle into it after i realized cathlocism is retarded when i was 10

5.it's less scary and doesn't do cultish bs.
Plus it's not shoved on you as a kid where you're forced to belive it

We/I dont worship any god(s)

1. England
2. English
3. Not religious
4. I never was following one. Not baptised or anything.
4. I don't believe in God.

come back to the papacy you heretic

1. burgerstan
2. iranian
3. shia islam
4. born into it
5. butthurt inducer

RARE

Have you ever tried eating Puffin? Is it good?

kek

>Christianism
Nigger are you dumb?

Finland
Finnic
Finnic paganism
Because it's cool
Ukko and Tapio do cool shit

>1. Your country
Portugal
>2. Your ethnicity
White (Gallaecian)
>3. Your religion
Christian (Protestant)
>4. How did you end following it?
Family
>5. Describe your religion using as fewer words as possible
Praise the Lord