What religion do you identify yourself with?

JR said: I'm now a devout agnostic "I don't know for sure what, but I'm pretty damn dedicated about it!"

I think a lot depends on how and where you were brought up for which religions would stick out most in your mind. For example where I grew up I knew no muslims and no Rastafarians or any of that, but I went to school with many Jehovah's Witnesses and saw many of their Kingdom Halls around where I grew up so the religion is familiar to me.

I also went to school with many Seventh Day Adventists and saw many of their churches and heard about their church closings on the radio when there was bad weather, etc. and so that religion is familiar to me as well.

True, I'm from the northeast U.S.

I just find it so hard to believe that people wouldn't know ANY Muslims just because it's the second most popular religion world-wide behind Christianity. I mean, I obviously do believe it because you're telling me it's true, it's just kind of weird to me. Also, I honestly didn't know what a Seventh Day Adventist was until I Googled it lol. Very interesting stuff.

how funny, I'm the only jew lol ;o) ah well.

(I'm an atheist/agnostic really.. only a traditional jew).

I'm not an Atheist. An Atheist is against any religion, where I believe everyone has a right to theirs. I'm not anything. If anything I'm closest to a Pagan. If you guys read the stuff in the bible that is being preached, you would understand. It's not history. It's SICK.

I used to be one and I highly respect what you do.

Yeah, I agree with both of you. That's similar to the way I think. Why is it that when most people think of the word Atheist, they think of "devil worshipper"? It's a totally judgmental world.

Hey, I'm sorry guys. I didn't mean to offend anyone by saying this, and I hope you know that what I mean is that I have some strong opinions about the bible. These I can't change, but I hope that you know that I don't mean to offend you!

Thanks for posting this, Sarah.

I grew up in a suburb of Chicago and part of the time on the Northwest side of Chicago. Chicago, until recently, was populated mainly by Italian, Polish, German, Irish and Greek immigrants,(all Christian places) and a few isolated neighborhoods of Jewish people from Europe. Living in the Midwest, this was very common, until, probably the late 80s.

I never met a Muslim until I went to college, and I doubt I've met more than 2 or 3 real Rastafarians in my life. (College kids who wear black, green, yellow and red, try to Dread their blond hair with glue and listen to Bob Marley do not really count as real Rasta in my book. Most of them cut the dreads out of their hair when they graduate. I hope that doesn't offend anyone, I have simply never met a white person NOT from the Islands who really followed Rasta for more than a few years. Especially the women.)

Where I live now, there are a lot of Muslim people, one of my youngest children's best friends is a Muslim boy from Pakistan (and two the little girls she plays with are Hindu) and probably at least 30% of my clients are Muslim. But, those of us who are a little older and grew up in old fashioned "traditional" neighborhoods, really didn't run into anyone other than mainstream Christians and a few Jewish people until we were older and lived in more sophisticated and integrated areas or went to University.

I was raised christian.. and am still a believer more or less.. but there's some glaring issues with the church and the brainwashing/controlli ng nature of the whole establishment, so I really don't agree with the "organized" aspect of religion.. but i do try to live according to certain strictures: don't lie, cheat, steal, and treat everyone the way I would like to be treated.