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(5,346 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)wnylib
(21,664 posts)because they like authoritarianism in religion and politics.
Many religious people on the left favor socialism.
Atheists fall into right and left divisions along the same spectrum, according to their preferences for or against authoritarianism.
zanana1
(6,135 posts)They wouldn't be wild about it otherwise.
doc03
(35,389 posts)localroger
(3,634 posts)How do you feel about Hamberders?
Meh... be a scientologist
I LOVE Hamberders -- be a MAGAt
jmowreader
(50,567 posts)1. How many gods do you want to worship?
if the answer is one...
2. What is the god's name?
if (a) Yahweh, then Judaism
if (b) Jesus, then Christianity
if (c) Donald Trump, then MAGA
carpetbagger
(4,392 posts)Mariana
(14,861 posts)Response to doc03 (Reply #2)
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marybourg
(12,642 posts)sakabatou
(42,186 posts)Harker
(14,056 posts)Some things transcend religions.
cos dem
(903 posts)I've had excellent falafel and hummus in a Jewish restaurant in Jerusalem.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)Happy Hoosier
(7,425 posts)When I visited Israel, every restaurant, Jew or Arab, had its own hummus recipe is was very proud of! And they were all delicious!
Kaleva
(36,360 posts)...
Coventina
(27,215 posts)(I'm working on socializing the black feral that lives in my side yard).
Harker
(14,056 posts)yardwork
(61,715 posts)demmiblue
(36,903 posts)OhZone
(3,212 posts)Hail Eris!
Also Fnord.
Wicked Blue
(5,859 posts)hmph
Hekate
(90,865 posts)wnylib
(21,664 posts)are more like a social/political club.
Wicked Blue
(5,859 posts)wnylib
(21,664 posts)current description without checking your link. I was just commenting on the UU group in my area that I've been in community activities with and the Sunday morning get together that I attended in their building. Might be different in other places.
stage left
(2,966 posts)Would be: Which coffee do you worship?
Wicked Blue
(5,859 posts)However, I'm an apostate UU -- I only drink tea
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)Then you are a pastafarian.
Xavier Breath
(3,657 posts)I was about to take three quick questions to being an atheist, but who knew food had such a bearing on this decision? Or, more specifically, that my disdain for bacon and love of hummus might lead me to Islam? Guess the wife and I need to have a talk.
NotASurfer
(2,156 posts)FSM makes yet another appearance!
11 Bravo
(23,928 posts)wnylib
(21,664 posts)Richard D
(8,801 posts). . and most in this country love hummus!
ShazzieB
(16,562 posts)But I self-selected out before I got to that point!
Skittles
(153,226 posts)stage left
(2,966 posts)You have two black cats and a yellow dog.
Harker
(14,056 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,248 posts)Funny stuff!
dalton99a
(81,637 posts)Aussie105
(5,444 posts)Not only do I love flowcharts, it's resolved a life long religious confusion in me!
May the many headed animal deity I worship daily by not eating meat, bestow her blessings on you!
aggiesal
(8,937 posts)electric_blue68
(14,964 posts)Shermann
(7,455 posts)Engineering flowcharts are a BIT more complicated.
yardwork
(61,715 posts)DBoon
(22,403 posts)electric_blue68
(14,964 posts)BootinUp
(47,201 posts)aggiesal
(8,937 posts)To be a Mormon, you worship 1 God and are a naturally annoying person that loves bacon and thinks underwear is magical.
To be a Scientologist, you worship 1 God and are rich and insane. Maybe you're insanely rich and insane.
To be a Wiccan, you have to worship a ton of Gods, want to be reincarnated, while owning a black cat. Maybe reincarnated into a black cat. So maybe that black cat that you own, could be a relative!
Wounded Bear
(58,743 posts)DFW
(54,448 posts)Oh no. I read too much.
I haven't read enough......
Pobeka
(4,999 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)(shit ton = 2 metric tonnes) of annoying generic christians.
Just sayin'.
Orangepeel
(13,933 posts)I think that some people have to practice being as annoying as they are!
Blaukraut
(5,695 posts)There need to be a few more avenues for folks like me.
MichaelSoE
(1,576 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,747 posts)Celerity
(43,589 posts)Johnny2X2X
(19,193 posts)Religion is forced on most humans before they have the senses to make choices or decisions around it. Your family forces their religion on you as a child.
Happy Hoosier
(7,425 posts)I was raised in a church-going family. I realized that religion was nonsense in my 20s and have never looked back.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)Until I came to that realization I was all in on fundamentalist baptist god.
It's probably good luck my mom and stepfather were so far right wing crazy religious conservatives as it helped me notice that other people were normal.
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JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,374 posts)Or, is that just "lapsed atheist"?
FakeNoose
(32,823 posts)... And it's guaranteed to offend just about everyone.
Thanks for not personally embarrassing the Pope on this chart. He gets enough ridicule already.
underpants
(182,950 posts)Thats my saying but it hasnt caught on....yet.
Martin Eden
(12,880 posts)Nowhere in that chart is a path to the One. True. Religion.
It is, of course, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
keithbvadu2
(36,962 posts)Even within the single religion of Christianity, there are multiple paths.
Each denomination is the the sole, one, true faith.
All of the others are heretics.
SunSeeker
(51,745 posts)IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)My adorable little black cat approves.
Haggard Celine
(16,860 posts)I've also got a black cat. He stays outside most of the time, but I think I'd better bring him in for Halloween. I've heard that people take black cats and sacrifice them for ceremonies. I don't know if that's true or if it's some sort of satanic panic. I do know, however, that the local humane society is very careful about who they allow to adopt any black cat because of abuse cases.
electric_blue68
(14,964 posts)I don't know about th sacrifice stuff but I've heard some are deliberately injured on Halloween.
Haggard Celine
(16,860 posts)I worry about him sometimes when he's out there. He's a very gentle, loving cat, and it worries me that he might be too friendly to someone who comes up into the yard. He stays in the yard, doesn't venture out into the neighborhood, though.
I kept him inside for a long time after I got him, but it got to where he would run outside when I opened the door. I've seen him out there running around and chasing squirrels. He just likes to run around and play, I guess.
But he comes in for a while every day and most of the time he lays down at my feet or in my lap. But after a while, he'll go stand at the door and I let him back outside. When he comes in today, I'll tell him he has to stay in for the night. He seems to know what I'm saying a lot of the time. I'll just let him back out Monday morning.
Joinfortmill
(14,481 posts)Bleacher Creature
(11,258 posts)Martin68
(22,913 posts)beliefs, yet those differences can result in civil wars and persecution.
Collimator
(1,639 posts)And the love thereof. American religious options cannot be fully explored until firearms are included in the equation.
hunter
(38,337 posts)I will say that as a kid the Christmas holidays were a time of religious warfare in my family. None of the older people agreed when, if, or how the holiday should be celebrated and they were all quite willing to fight about it. Indeed they looked forward to these fights. I had only one grandparent who believed in the traditional U.S.A. Hallmark Coca Cola Christmas.
As a kid I was a Jehovah's Witness. Never said the flag salute. My mom had landed with the Witnesses after a depressingly common bad experience with the Catholic Church. Unfortunately my mom couldn't stay out of politics, which the Witnesses shun people for, so we became Quakers when I was in the fifth grade. Still no flag salute.
These days I'm some sort of Social Justice Catholic heretic, which makes me far more dangerous than any simple atheist in the eyes of conservative Catholics. I'll confess I enjoy that notoriety. Hunter is going to hell.
As a little unborn soul in heaven I don't remember choosing the family or the community I'd be born into, but I always try to make the best of it.
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electric_blue68
(14,964 posts)...is very funny 😄