How religious are you?

main stream? no.. im pagan. prefer the term "heathen" honestly, because pagan is a xian term used for "godless" or "uncivilized" and im certainly neither of those descriptions. to be more specific.. im polytheistic spiritualist. raised a seventh adventist and taught to fear, hate, and seperate the races as is "gods way", i abandoned that religion at a rather young age.. and set out to find what spoke to me on a deeper personal level that didnt feel as "dirty". highly religious, extremely devout in my faith and practices, ive found my place.

Let me start by saying I am not considered the norm. I am a Christian, however I do not consider myself religious. Most would say that I am, though. I attend church twice a week. I pray daily more than once a day (no specific number of times). I read my Bible daily. I make a point to live a constant lifestyle that says I'm a follower of Christ. That means I treat others well, I live with integrity, and I do not condemn anyone. I'm not nice only to Christians; I'm nice to everyone (especially those who are not nice to me). I'm basically what's known as a sacrilegious Christian. I am the way I am because I believe in Christianity, I simply don't believe it is the way many are taught to believe it is. I believe that there is a God who truly loves humans; I believe He created us, is affectionate towards us, and believes us to be important.

I go to cnurch twice on Sundays and I pray in the morning, the evening, and have grace at meals. I will pray whereever I am. I am not a very good person, and I sometimes fall short, like lose my temper, do not trust God as much as I should, but I consider myself a Christian. I am a Calvinist Christian in that I follow the teachings that God chooses HIS elect, the elect does not choose HIM and believe in infant baptism. And God will never allow HIS elect to be lost. I am a member of the Canadian Reformed church but Calvinists included Reformed and Presbyterian churches and we either use the Westminster Catechism or the Belgic Confession of Faith.

I have strong, deep faith and spirituality but I am not religious as I no longer practice any particular religion. I do take bits and pieces from many religions but they all come down to the same thing... do your best to respect others, treat them well, help them when needed, talk to your God (or whatever you call her, him or them), and that is that!

I was raised Catholic and attended church on Sundays and/or Sunday school. I attended CCD. I was never baptized and never took first communion. I do not attend church now and I'm not sure what my beliefs are as far as God, Jesus or the Bible. I guess that's why I do not follow any organized religion.

im not religious at all....

i am a christian but i try not to be a hypocrite .i believe action speaks louder than words.i donot beleive in degrading anyone but i do know what i stand for.actually, i am a firm bible believer and that all things will come to pass IN HIS TIME.

I am christian, I do not go to church, I pray personally at home, my boyfriend is jewish, we attended synagogue a lot when I was able to move around now we do not even go there anymore, as I am almost always sick.

I'm Catholic but I don't head to church or preach either. I prefer to just pray when and where I feel like praying and ain't noone gonna stop me. I was forced to go to church every sunday as well as Christmas and Easter. I hated it with a passion, which is prolly why I don't like going now.

I am a christian and I try to follow my religion however I still make mistakes and I am still growing in my relationship with God. I wasnt raised religious actually my mother was not religious at all. I wasent baptised untill recently. I read the bible almost everyday and I pray at least once a day. I follow the ten commandments.

Wowza, for me this is really a complicated question(s). I was raised very Catholic,but well versed in my Celtic roots. Being the bright little human I am, I have asked questions about religion(s) ever since I could talk. So I would have to say, that I am more spiritual than 'religious', in that I have studied many, followed few, and only recently come to the realization that (probably due to my genetic roots) the Irish Celtic Tradition of Wicca is the practice that will/is most satisfying to my soul's yearnings. I'm still learning, still studying, but the path I've chosen has already 'put to rest' my lifelong overwhelming need to search. I'm not explaining this right, because it IS complicated, but I hope you get the idea.

My father is a non observant Jew, my mom was a non observant Christian and I wasn't raised in either religion. We do celebrate Christmas but only secularly.

I don't consider myself to be a religious person. I don't have strong beliefs, but I have no objection to accompanying family to services on occassions when I'm with them. I do think it's important for kids to learn about different world religions.

I attended a Unitarian Church when I attend anything at all. I have explored most of the Christian denominations to one extend or another more out of curiosity than anything else. I took First Communion as a Catholic but left the Church as a very young adult, as soon as I was able to consider and think for myself. One parent was one thing and the other was something else, thus Baptism and Communion. Now a days, well I am mostly Heathen or Pagan, depending on who you ask and what they are thinking at the time. I am a spiritualist. Deeply spiritual but non-religious. I don't believe in man and don't believe I require man to interpret my relationship to or with any deity. I don't practice anything, but live by tenets that are ethical by any standard.

[i]Hi Elic, I am not very religious, I am a Roman Catholic. I tried to pray everyday to thank of all the blessings my family and I recieved and for the good health and I am also praying for guidance each day! I don't attend Church regularly! I believed that wherever I am, as long as I am sincere, I can talk to God anytime, anywhere! [/i]

[:)] I'm a kind of religious. I'm a Muslim, Just a normal Muslim. I have brought up in a way and I grown in a society of 'Cultural Muslims'. Later I learned myself and corrected my Islam. I took only the Islam and I left many things that came up in the name of Islam without any evidence. I used to pray five times a day, and weekly congregational prayer in Fridays. I fast during holy month of Ramadan. There had occasions I missed them though. I don't like myself to be classified under different branches of Islam. I used to learn our Holy Book - Quran and used to attend such classes sometimes. I was not drifted much, but as I said, I'm different from the culturally practiced Muslims in my living area. I know some people who changed their beliefs as well. My my local people used to say about me that I'm a diverted one. Many of those people's beliefs are just the things they heard from their fathers and fore-fathers, they just listen to some people known as leaders or some false Mullahs, they just don't try themselves to understand much. I have tried to understand about other religions like Christianity, Jewish, Hinduism, etc. But when ever I study those things it increased my faith in Islam! Islam is not just a religion started by prophet Mohammad, and not for a particular time or particular people or not originated in a particular span of human life. Islam is the guidelines of God revealed to mankind since the first human Adam itself. The message of Islam was completed by the Last prophet Prophet Mohammad. Islam's idea doesn't depends on a particular theory that are not applicable to a past or present or future generations. It's Idea is simple and universal. Islam teaches tribes, colors and races are only to identify and the most honorable in the sight of God is most pious. Alright.. what about yours? [:)] -Peace-

Hi ElicBxn, I was raised a Christian and followed a denomination of that religion for most of my life. I consider myself spiritual but not religious although I have read the Bible many times,since first reading it more then fifty years ago and continue to read it today. There is much that is good in it and I learn something new every time I read it but I do not of course, take it literally. To me the word religious speaks of rituals and certain beliefs that must be adhered to, and I am a free thinker. I have no intention of letting someone else tell me what I must or must not believe. Blessings.

I was brought up an Anglican. Married a Roman Catholic and don't attend either church. I try to live my life by generally Christian tenets. I work in an Anglican Cathedral. I respect all other faiths and religions and those people that are genuine followers of them, including those that fall within Paganism. Generally speaking, churches are full of hypocrites and I find something unpleasantly smug about folk that seem to think that attending church once a week makes them literally "Holier than Thou". I do believe in the possibility of a greater being. In order not to confuse, I'm happy to call it God.

I was brought up in the Christian faith and have continued in that faith into my adulthood. That doesn't mean that I think of myself without faults because of forgiveness. I have plenty of faults, but what sets Christianity apart from other religions is that the Holy Spirit convicts me of my sins or faults and when I repent I have an advocate, Jesus Christ, who stands before God and pleads my case for forgiveness. As the Bible teaches, "If we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness." While there have been times when I've wondered, "What if I'm wrong?" I've never abandoned the faith, nor have I ever been motivated to do so. God's basic message of love, sacrifice and redemption makes sense to me.

I am not religious but I don't deny religious existence. I come from ex-soviet place (Latvia) and 15-20 years ago God and all other icons of the planet was illegal to believe in. It's because our God was Lenin and his ideology. I don't go to a church, and I don't pray before a dinner. But I am sure I collapse emotionally when there are trouble overtaking me or my family, maybe even I pray... in my own way.