Religious Beliefs

[johntywino]

Some priest or Bishop or someone on TV this morning said that "the vast majority" of people had religious beliefs ie. believed in a God. I for one do NOT believe, and I was wondering what a poll of your answers would show if the vast majority really DID ?????? John

[jomifl]

which one? there are so many to choose from.
please categorise me as a disbeliever particularly in gods of the non-corporeal variety

[woofgang]

I think that belief on God doesn't necessary mean belief in a religion.

[naomi24]

I'm not saying I don't believe it Jake, just that I doubt its accuracy. As Woofgang says a belief in God doesn't necessarily mean a belief in religion, and in my experience most people are not regular churchgoers, but nevertheless believe in some sort of God. The majority of the people I know wouldn't claim to be atheists, that's for sure.

[jake-the-peg]

Sounds like we may be in (near) violent agreement.

I think it's generally acknowledged that the vast majority of people are not Churchgoers.

A large number will refer to themselves as Christian or CofE in a kind of traditional/racial way in the way that people think of themselves as Jewish.

When you actually push them about what they believe their picture of God is a sort of mixture of general spiritual-ish kind of themes.

But when we are talking about a personal God we are talking about an entity that has a particular interest in you and who will act on your behalf or judge and punish you or save or damn you in another life

I don't think most people in Britain believe in that sort of God any more.

Although as before that exclude NI

[naomi24]

I almost agree with you Jake - except for the last bit. You see I do think a personal God is exactly what people believe in which is why they say prayers when someone close to them is ill, for example. The God thing is all about self, so unless people are terribly philosophically minded and are capable of looking at a potentially much greater picture, there's no point in believing in a God who isn't going to be useful to them personally.

[mibn2cweus]

I have long been frightfully aware that I live amongst a vast majority of people who are principally inheritors of a hodgepodge of contradictory beliefs the basis for which they have never taken the time and put forth the effort to examine the validity of, content to adopt them in the form they are presented questioning only why the harsh realities of day to day life and the world at large refuse to conform, cursing the hammer when in an unfocused stupor they smash their own thumb.

But being one not adverse to stating the obvious, truth does not conform to popular opinion. And as I've stated before on this forum, the only thing we are likely to learn from polls is how eager most people are to be in the number at the exclusion of the facts.

With that said I'll leave you to guess whether my beliefs contribute to the validity of this religious leaders assertion . . . or not.

[johntywino]

AMEN to that ????????

[pugwashjw]

So have you asked...WHERE did i come from...originally???
Yes, you have parents and grandparents, and if we had records, we could track them all the way back to...WHAT?
The Bible says Adam and Eve,
evolutionists say the primordial soup or whatever...

WHAT do you think?

WHAT would you LIKE your origins to be?

I for one stay with Adam and Eve.