Do you belong to any religious community?

Do you belong to any religious community?
Maybe there is a simmilar poll somewhere.

Then here is another one now.

Could be interesting perhaps.

Of course, nobody has to answer.

You may just click.

But you can also answer, of course.

 

Be courageous and click.
The poll is anonymous.

 

I have clicked onto "Catholic" - which is no secret.

 

Anglicans may click onto either Catholic or Protestant - or onto both.

 

So far:

1 x Catholic
1 x Buddhist

 

Agnostic. So none...

 

or: others

 

Agnosticism is not a religion. It's a lack thereof. So, again, none...

 

OK.

But if 2 or 3 Agnostics meet and go for a beer, then they are also a community.

 

Methodist. I’m a member of a United Methodist Church congregation.

 

That goes for any 2 or 3 random people who go for a beer. A Buddhist, a Hindu and a Christian walk into a bar...

 

A Welcome to the first Protestant in this thread!

 

3 now say: no religious community

Looks like the new majority!

 

Spiritual but not religious here, so I chose other.

 

A great majority of 5 say: no religious community

Is that the way of things to come?

 

I think so. At least in my experience, I see the entire world as my church and my classroom, and all of creation as my community. Most of my spiritual growth is internal through reflection and meditation, though I still seek out advice from individuals or search for sources of information and inspiration from books, websites, nature, etc. By limiting yourself to a small community you are putting up barriers between yourself and those outside of your community. At this stage in humanity''s spiritual development, the walls and the differences need to torn down, and ideas need to be shared between spiritual traditions for the betterment of all. We need to see all of creation as our brothers and sisters.

 

I haven’t left my house in a month.

 

A full 1/3rd of the United States is non-denominational, and that number grows daily..

 

Now:

6 x no religious community
2 x Protestants

 

any 'ism' fits for a religion
people do not have to physically form a mob to be a community, carrying any given 'ism' label is the community, no church or formal community required.

Not true, if you have values you hold strongly to, you have a religion regardless of ism you fall under, and if you claim agnostic as your core constructive, then its agnostig.

They dont have to meet, just carry the same identity is all that is necessary.

....and then we are served with a dose of nonsense. false

Yes and those 3 do not take into account that their identities will fall within the core identities of others with like mindedness, just because its not formally established makes no difference, sharing a basic core ism establishes

Spiritual 'is' religious

Thats because their definition of religious is too narrow

which only means not associated with a 'mob'.

 

What I am saying is I do not belong to any formal organized religion or specific spiritual tradition.

 

@ Kokomojoje

I cannot agree with you in your opinion that all religious communities are a "mob".

 

Yeah if you don’t give a **** about something it’s not a religion.

 

I mostly hang out with neo-pagans and have been invited regularly to their ceremonies and rituals. I don't really identify as one, but I feel more welcome as a part of their community than I have any other.

 

There are definitely agnostics who still engage as part of religious communities. I've met plenty of agnostics in Unitarian and Quaker congregations. Agnosticism isn't a religion (then again, neither is theism), but there are agnostics who are a part of religious communities.