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Posted: 8/18/2008 6:00:33 PM | | I have non-religious on my profile. It means that I am not particularly fond of any organized religion and don't attend a church regularly. I do have beliefs but they don't always fit the mainstream ideas. I am truthfully a very spiritual person with good morals but have had too many experiences with too many so-called "good Christians" to wish to conform to a rigid belief system. There isn't a choice of spiritual so non-religious hopefully keeps the fundamentalists and bible-thumpers from contacting me. Maybe this will help you understand. :) | |
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Posted: 8/18/2008 7:57:19 PM | | well for me it means i have my own view on religion and for many...they get offended by my view on the bible and religion(well the bible thumpers anyway)...so its better to leave it clueless for others unless they really wanna know | |
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Posted: 8/19/2008 1:47:44 AM | | Dance...calling someone who does not share your views on christianity a 'dork' is not really acting in a christ like manner...show some decorum please. | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 12:20:40 AM | | I'm not a big believer in religion at all. Zealots can do some pretty atrocious things. | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 5:05:11 AM |
I'm not a big believer in religion at all. Zealots can do some pretty atrocious things.
I'm not a big believer in zealotry of any kind - religious, political, academic, class, whatever. | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 5:16:45 AM | | "non-religious" = despises mythology perpetrated as the god's honest truth and which, if not adhered to, will cause one's wayward ass to burn in hell for ever and ever. or something like that. | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 8:14:20 AM | | Non religious could simply mean the person just does not believe in anything (religious wise that is). Or they are unsure of what they believe in. Best thing to do is just ask the person. I follow the spiritual path myself as opposed to following an organized religion. I think some people use non-religious because it's easier to explain than going into what they do or don't believe. | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 9:51:03 AM | I think it would be nice if POF had about... oh.... a twelve word "open" section for everyone to write their own definition for this question.. It is too limited right now, as many here have expressed various different reasons for their own use of the term: "non-religious".
As for the OP --- you really never know what anyone is, until you talk with them. People often say they are "Christian" because they were baptized that way, but they may never go to church, etc... Spirituality comes in many forms, many religions & many different personal definitions. I have met some priests in my lifetime who were about as far away from the definition of "holy" as I could possibly fathom, while I have met others who lived on the street, who were never part of any organized religion & had no education in any doctrine, and seemed closer to God & "Godliness" in their life-outlook, than most others (... and I have of course, seen the reverse of this). Many religious doctrines imply that we should: "love others as ourselves", but I have yet to see that put into practice by all of their followers...
Take people individually... That's what I believe.... A word is just a word, unless it is put into action....  | |
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Posted: 8/22/2008 8:40:35 PM | I'm non-religious, and I chose this option because I do not believe in any gods.
Yes, yes, I live in Texas and maybe about 90% of the women won't even give me a second look after reading this.
Some ask, some wonder and don't ask, some jump on it and hold me a lecture.
For some people, "non-religious" means the same as it means for me, that they have no subscription to any religion and live their lives free from any religious beliefs. Others are very much religious, or in their words, devout, born again, walk with the lord, or whatever the wording is, but consider their own three-times-a-week church visiting not as religious. Religion is something that other denominations do. | |
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Posted: 8/23/2008 5:08:38 AM | I'm non-religious because I simply don't care about religion.
Atheism has a connotation of being anti-religious...its not that I have a problem or I want to see religion go away, I just don't care either way. | |
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Posted: 8/23/2008 5:47:38 AM |
I'm non-religious because I simply don't care about religion.
Atheism has a connotation of being anti-religious...its not that I have a problem or I want to see religion go away, I just don't care either way.
Then I'd say you were Areligious.Use that term and at the least it will sort out the educated from the non. 
Though some self-described "Atheists" believe they must also be "Anti-Theists" or "Anti-Religious", it's a personal bias not included in the word itself. I suppose it sounds "softer" on a dating site than "rabid anti-Papist".  | |
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Posted: 8/23/2008 10:07:38 AM | I'm non-religious because I simply don't care about religion.
Atheism has a connotation of being anti-religious...its not that I have a problem or I want to see religion go away, I just don't care either way.
An atheist is simply someone who doesn't personally believe in the existence of a deity or deities. That's it. Nothing more nothing less. It has nothing to do with being for or against religions. An anti-theist on the other hand is someone who is anti-religion. And contrary to popular myth, you don't have to be an atheist to be an anti-theist. Many people who follow or belong to the more traditional religions (such as Christianity, Islam, Judaism, etc.) are in fact anti-theist when it comes to new age "type" of religions. And many people who claim new age as their religion or who believe in choosing and following your own individual path are indeed very much against the more mainstream religions.
I would say that the great majority of atheists fall somewhere between accepting and/or respecting other people's faith to simply being indifferent to it all. Others, like myself, are anti-religion but still have respect for the people behind the religion or religious belief. And I know this may sound like a contradiction to some people, but it isn't. I don't have to believe or be "for" an institution or an organization to still be able to love and respect it's people.
As far as what non-religious means on profiles....in my opinion, it means absolutely nothing. I have non-religious and I'm an atheist. But I've seen right here on this very forum some people who are staunch believers of god and the bible yet who have put themselves down as non-religious also simply because they didn't follow ALL of the tenets of one faith in particular. Like I said, it means nothing. So if a potential partner's faith/belief system is important to you, it's best to ask them what they mean by it. That's what I think anyway...but to each their own:)
JMO | |
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Posted: 8/24/2008 2:20:53 AM | Problem is the way we run our countries, governments, courts, etc etc is derived from Christianity.
I have this take on it that being non-religious is pretty much impossible in that context. You want all the benefits Christianity bought the west (music, art, literacy, the concept of social justice, governance, universities, scholarship, personal freedom) without acknowledging its source.
Being non-religious in a western society whose prosperity is a function of the protestant reformation of the 16th century gets close to biting the hand that feeds you. | |
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Posted: 8/24/2008 7:58:11 PM | Mike and everyone else who considers themselves "spiritual" but not religious...
To quote you Mike, "One can be spiritual without beleiving in the corrupt influences of organized religions." So, in effect are you saying you believe in unorganized religion? Please tell me what being spiritual means...?
While I am a faithful, bible believing Christian, and love the opportunity to discuss and engage in conversation and dialogue about religion, spirituality, the bible etc. I don't go around telling people they are going to hell...although Jesus Christ and the bible mention that topic more than once , and take it very seriously... we have one of two final destinations in life...heaven and hell...
and the bible (the word of God) tells us God's message and way to eternal life...
How can all or most religions be OK, or right if they disagree with each other on many crucial and major doctrines/issues? Christainity alone stands out as the single only "religion" that claims man can do nothing to earn or merit his/her way to eternal life... God has already done that for us... it is a done deal...through the life and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Along with politics, religion conjures up more emotions/feeling than any other subject... because of our internalized deep rooted belief and faith...but that doesn't mean we should not ever discuss or talk about it...at least in a intelligent and rational manner. In most cases, when people reject so-called organized religion, especially the bible and the God of the bible...they do do due to self interests, and not being held accountable for certain particular conduct and lifestyle issues...
Health, happiness and blessings...
My best to all | |
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Posted: 8/30/2008 4:14:59 AM | What has religion have to do with dating some one or getting to know who they are that is thy question.
It's so crazy Christain women or men will only date there type what if the person dont have a religion or what if the person puts down non religion does that realy matter ?
I have been ask do i believe in god i would reply no i dont go to church or worship a god or gods i have my own believes but i dont sit there and judge another because they may have other believes because i choose to look beon that and look in to there heart and see who they are not over religion so i choose non religion .
so my point is this it shouldn't matter what a person puts in there profile it dont mean the person is not the loving type or a caring type of person i believe that some or most think by not believing in a god or choose non religion they aint good enough for them witch is in my book very selfish | |
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Posted: 9/28/2008 9:31:19 AM | Non-Religious is an Atheist. Hypothetically there should be no such thing as christianity anymore simply because only a false "god" would condemn people to eternal punishment for innocuous things like not believing in some talking snake or knowing the sun came before the Earth. And only a false "god" would say murder people because of religion. Or practice Human sacrifice
(Yes witch burnings and killing Native Americans for religious reasons is considered Human sacrifice. The Bull of Borgia gave the Vatican a false sense of entitlement to the New World and the so-called "martyrs" of the Vatican who died here like having molten gold poured down their mouths got what they deserved. Try to steal another peoples gold and property and they will rightly and justly defend themselves from burdensome Vatican hired thieves and murderers).
Science has overtuned and outright refuted alot of the myths in the bible.
Now Deism, on the other hand, is very difficult to refute unlike christianity. | |
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Posted: 9/29/2008 3:26:10 PM | My profile states Non-Religious....
I was born in a very strict Roman Catholic family. We actually had priests and nuns attending our family reunions. They are now long gone (dead). By the time I hit my late teens, I detested organized religion, but still believed in G-d and Jesus and all that stuff. By the time I hit my 30's, I had my doubts.
Now I'm 45 and do NOT believe in the existence of God, Heaven or Hell, and question much of the Bible.
Guess that makes me Atheist | |
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Posted: 11/17/2008 11:27:45 PM | No matter what some of us feel as long as we believe in what we want no one can take that from us to be a atheist is not bad in fact iam one. I was once was baptised as christain but later on in life i had my doubts i dont believe that A God is out there or a heaven or hell to clear things up there has been no physical proof that anything like that has ever exsisted it may be written in books but again there was about 40 differnt authers who wrote the bible so know one realy knows what is truth from false.
I rather not care who judges me or not because i have my own believes thats all that matters. | |
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