A poll to RF Westerners !

[Godobeyer]

Hello everybody !


I post an opinion about Christianity in West that many of Christian are left , and becomes Atheists,some members disagree with.

I know RF don't represent all Westerners , but at least some of them

So I want to creat a poll about Atheism and Christianity to know how which more Christians or Atheists or other faiths are there in RF.

Please note , I make the poll show the name of voters !

Thanks in Advance

 

[Rival]

Born a Christian, converted to Zoroastrianism.

 

[YmirGF]

My sojourn was a tad different from the normal atheistic pattern. I started out as an atheist, became a devout follower of KRSNA only to meet up with him and at his behest returned to my atheistic roots. Easy breezy lemon squeezy.

 

[LuisDantas]

Ever an atheist, even before I learned it was not particularly usual for one to be.

Pressured into behaving as a Christian and even a Kardecist Spiritist. Very much against my will.

Then I found Taoism, later Buddhism.

For a while I was involved with an occultist group of SAW Gnosticism, mainly because I did not know better at the time.

 

[ADigitalArtist]

I was raised irreligious theist, dabbled in various faiths, and became atheist.

 

[Kirran]

You're probably better off looking up statistics, Godobeyer.

As for myself, I was raised as an irreligious atheist, and have become a Hindu, basically.

What do you consider 'the West'? Presumably you count the USA, the UK, France, Germany and Australia. Do you count South Africa, Brazil, Jamaica, Greece, Estonia and/or Russia?

This may interest you:

 

[LuisDantas]

Of course, I was baptized into the Catholic Church (and even went though Eucharist some 13 years later) without ever being asked whether I wanted to.

Nor did I go through the considerable trouble of asking for my formal excommunication later. Nor did most of the other atheists that I know of.

So it is at least conceivable that some statistics will insist that I must somehow be Christian despite myself.

Also, "being a Christian" means sharply different things in different places and even families. Some expect it as a matter of basic decency as they understand it. Others just hope not to provoke family arguments Still others just don't feel strongly enough about the matter to decide to reject the label.

Who knows how many people who declare themselves to be Christians when asked in various contexts even have a clear idea of what they mean by Christianity? Not me.

 

[Buttercup]

I can't really vote in the poll, but I was raised with a fuzzy belief in the Christian God. We did not attend church.

I became a Christian at 16 and left the faith about 10 years ago. I'm agnostic now. Still hoping and searching.

 

[Kori]

I was born into Christianity. But then I became an Atheist then I looked at other Religions including Christianity and Islam. Not feeling anything from either I became a Norse Pagan shortly later. That's it for me in a simple nutshell.

 

[Jainarayan]

I was born Christian but became a polytheist, first Hindu, now Heathen.

 

[Godobeyer]

You're probably better off looking up statistics, Godobeyer.

As for myself, I was raised as an irreligious atheist, and have become a Hindu, basically.

What do you consider 'the West'? Presumably you count the USA, the UK, France, Germany and Australia. Do you count South Africa, Brazil, Jamaica, Greece, Estonia and/or Russia?

This may interest you:

I just notice that most of RF members are from West ,thank you for this note ,I miss to more generalizing the poll lol

Btw do you consider the Muslims (origin from Middle East) whom living in West , as Westerners ?

Do you consider the Westerners whom convert to Islam as Westerners?

 

[Twilight Hue]

I wasn't born a Christian or converted to Athiesm, but I get the gist of what the poll is asking.

I pretty much embraced Christianity for quite a long time where over the course of events, the religion gradually started fall apart as the "magic" started to wear off, and things fell into perspective once everything was said and done.

 

[Kirran]

I just notice that most of RF members are from West ,thank for this note ,I miss to more generalizing the poll lol

Btw do you consider the Muslims (origin from Middle East) whom living in West , as Westerners ?

Do you consider the Westerners whom convert to Islam as Westerners?

Well there are various definitions of the area that counts as 'the West'!

As for your two questions: I consider immigrants to be Westerners if they integrate into the society they live in, yes. Depends on what they think of themselves as a lot, too. Their children I would almost invariably consider to be Westerners.

Do I count a Westerner who converts to Islam as still being a Westerner? Yes, definitely. No question about that.

 

[Quintessence]

I was born human, mistakenly assigned female at birth, raised in an interfaith household, received formal RE in Catholicism for such a short time that it would be unfair to say I was ever any sort of Christian, and have basically been doing my own thing for all my life.

 

[Godobeyer]

I was born human, mistakenly assigned female at birth,

Hello !
I have a question about "mistakenly assigned female at birth" , how is that ?

 

[David1967]

I was born into a Christian family and made the decision as a child to be a Christian and am still one today. I didn't vote that I was born a Christian for the reason that I don't believe anyone is born with a particular religion. We have to learn of a religion in order to make a conscious decision to become or reject a religion. IMHO

 

[Quintessence]

Hello !
I have a question about "mistakenly assigned female at birth" , how is that ?

Western culture only recognizes sex as a binary. I do not. I do not identify as "female" at all. I identify as "human." But you aren't given a choice of these things. You're either male, or female. There is no "neither" allowed.

 

[Baladas]

Born a blank slate, raised Christian, became agnostic panentheist, embraced Daoism.

 

[Corthos]

Born a Christian, converted to Zoroastrianism.

Ditto. =)

 

[Draka]

Raised with a mish mash of beliefs. While my mom talked about "God" and we had children's bibles and bedtime prayers, we never went to church and were raised with the acceptance that divination was real. My mother would use cards and a Ouija board and had me using them at a young age too. No surprise I ended up Pagan.