Question 28

If you were going to be religious, what religion would you be? No made up religions and NO FLAMES!

• I like Taoism personally. I just dig the noninteligent force behind the workings of the universe thing. (Matt Miller #357)

• Shinto seems the most interesting religion to be. Alas, I am not Japanese. It has great qualities of respect and pragmatism. Plus their creation myth is pretty funky. Long live Amaterasu-kami. (Spikey)

  Either that or an atheist Hindu (yes, it's possible). (Cabrutus #820)

• Wiccan. You don't have to believe in the gods as literally existing to enjoy a path that celebrates the Earth and the human body as sacred, and recognizes the consumption of mind-altering substances as natural. (raven1 #1096)

• I'd probably be a Unitarian-Universalist deist. The kind who believes in a non-aware creative force or a creative creature that packs up and leaves once it creates its latest universe. (Michelle Malkin #1)

• Hmmm, that's a tough one. It's a tossup between Bhuddism and Islam. I like the philosophy of Bhuddism. And I like the idea of the Islamic afterlife. So I guess it really comes down to how would I like to spend the rest of eternity? Lying back on jeweled couches having black-eyed virgins service me, or finally achiveing that state of bliss known as Nirvana.

  As I said, tough call. (Blackguard #869)

• Unitarian. I had extensive experience with them when I was younger, as my parents were heavily involved. They are essentially a secular humanist organization, with a strong social conscience and a very inclusive attitude towards religious/spiritual/philosophical points of view.

  The fellowship I grew up in was almost exclusively atheist/agnostic (due, I suspect, to it being in a university town), though other fellowships (and even my original one, now) lean too far in the deist/spiritual direction for my taste. But I always thought that a religion with no dogma, in which atheism was an acceptable position, was one of the coolest things around.

  One other one that facinated me for a while was Baha'i. It seemed to be almost the Islamic version of Unitarianism - the same emphasis on social involvement, and the same opinion of Jesus and Mohammed as great teachers rather than divine, and the view that all religions in the world spring from the same source (although I think they still see that source as external to mankind rather than internal). (Paul Chefurka #1029)

• Quaker was the closest. (Jennifer P. Gunn #717)

• Tao seems to be the only one I could be halfway comfortable with. (Jim Rugh #643)

• Buddhism or Reformed Judaism. (Joris Zwart #106)