The Big Questions of the Universe

[Meganerdbomb]

I don't consider Buddhism a religion. I consider it a lifestyle. As a general rule, religions have to have some belief about the world in general (and this normally results in a god), otherwise you're just following a different way of life.

That's what a religion is.

[Squirrel_Monkey]

Gaiz, don't argue with Click or 123. They always sound so convincing.

[Scourge of teh Galaxy]

I don't consider Buddhism a religion. I consider it a lifestyle. As a general rule, religions have to have some belief about the world in general (and this normally results in a god), otherwise you're just following a different way of life.

That's what a religion is.

Religion is a different way of life centred around a belief that usually - but not always - centres around one or more deities

[Meganerdbomb]

I don't consider Buddhism a religion. I consider it a lifestyle. As a general rule, religions have to have some belief about the world in general (and this normally results in a god), otherwise you're just following a different way of life.

That's what a religion is.

Religion is a different way of life centred around a belief that usually - but not always - centres around one or more deities

Yes and Buddhism is way way of life centered around a belief in reincarnation and nirvana and  and all that cool stuff, so it's a religion.

[123savethewhales]

I don't consider Buddhism a religion. I consider it a lifestyle. As a general rule, religions have to have some belief about the world in general (and this normally results in a god), otherwise you're just following a different way of life.

That's what a religion is.

Religion is a different way of life centred around a belief that usually - but not always - centres around one or more deities

Yes and Buddhism is way way of life centered around a belief in reincarnation and nirvana and  and all that cool stuff, so it's a religion.

Is Brony a religion?

[Meganerdbomb]

I don't consider Buddhism a religion. I consider it a lifestyle. As a general rule, religions have to have some belief about the world in general (and this normally results in a god), otherwise you're just following a different way of life.

That's what a religion is.

Religion is a different way of life centred around a belief that usually - but not always - centres around one or more deities

Yes and Buddhism is way way of life centered around a belief in reincarnation and nirvana and  and all that cool stuff, so it's a religion.

Is Brony a religion?

I can be, if you actually base your life around it.

[NFX]

I don't consider Buddhism a religion. I consider it a lifestyle. As a general rule, religions have to have some belief about the world in general (and this normally results in a god), otherwise you're just following a different way of life.

That's what a religion is.

Religion is a different way of life centred around a belief that usually - but not always - centres around one or more deities

Yes and Buddhism is way way of life centered around a belief in reincarnation and nirvana and  and all that cool stuff, so it's a religion.

Is Brony a religion?

We could make it one. During one of the previous censuses somewhere, in the box labeled "Select your religion. If Other, please specify.", so many people wrote 'Jedi', that it had to be recognised as a religion. There's no reason why it wouldn't work with Brony. =D

[Philippa]

I don't consider Buddhism a religion. I consider it a lifestyle. As a general rule, religions have to have some belief about the world in general (and this normally results in a god), otherwise you're just following a different way of life.

That's what a religion is.

Religion is a different way of life centred around a belief that usually - but not always - centres around one or more deities

Yes and Buddhism is way way of life centered around a belief in reincarnation and nirvana and  and all that cool stuff, so it's a religion.

Is Brony a religion?

We could make it one. During one of the previous censuses somewhere, in the box labeled "Select your religion. If Other, please specify.", so many people wrote 'Jedi', that it had to be recognised as a religion. There's no reason why it wouldn't work with Brony. =D

On a similar note, I said I'd put down unicorn the next time the census came round.

[Scourge of teh Galaxy]

When I'm actually old enough to fill in a census, my religion is going to be Pseudoshintotheism

It'll be a test to see if I can make it fit on the paper

[Chaosmancer]

I think I put down Sumerian for no apparent reason.

[Pyromaniac605]

When I'm actually old enough to fill in a census, my religion is going to be Pseudoshintotheism

It'll be a test to see if I can make it fit on the paper

What exactly would Pseudoshintotheism mean? Pseudo means not genuine, and correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Shinto already a theistic religion?
Though if you want an incredibly long name for a religion, surely something longer than "Pseudoshintotheism" could be created...

[Scourge of teh Galaxy]

Pseudoshintotheism was a religion my best friend made up for laughs, since he was an ex-Shinto and I was a theist (ex-Christian, to be exact), so we combined the two and then added pseudo to the beginning because it isn't a real religion

However, I think I'd be more tempted to put down Reason or Logic, or SCIENCE!

[Pyromaniac605]

Pseudoshintotheism was a religion my best friend made up for laughs, since he was an ex-Shinto and I was a theist (ex-Christian, to be exact), so we combined the two and then added pseudo to the beginning because it isn't a real religion

Do you mean atheist, or were you a theist who didn't ascribe to any particular religion?

However, I think I'd be more tempted to put down Reason or Logic, or SCIENCE!

That's something I can agree with.

[Scourge of teh Galaxy]

I was a Christian, but didn't agree with their views, so I ditched their rules and took to science instead. I believe what's proven, but I don't believe that the world's creation is by chance. Hey, maybe God's dead, or off making another universe.

[Chaosmancer]

I'm probably agnostic,  don't really believe in anything one way or the other don't disregard the possibility of a deity, nor do I believe that there is one due to the lack of proof one way or the other (and by that, I mean that I don't see any truly definitive proof and so therefore I haven't taken a side).

[Pyromaniac605]

I was a Christian, but didn't agree with their views, so I ditched their rules and took to science instead. I believe what's proven, but I don't believe that the world's creation is by chance. Hey, maybe God's dead, or off making another universe.

Well, then you aren't necessarily a theist, there's deism, pantheism.

I'm atheist, simply because I see no proof that there is a god and science has explained many things that were once attributed to a deity.

[Naryar]

I am tempted to take up Odin worship.

[Pyromaniac605]

 

I am tempted to take up Odin worship.

Well, he did fulfil his promise to rid the land of ice giants... 

[Naryar]

I am tempted to take up Odin worship.

Well, he did fulfil his promise to rid the land of ice giants... 

Couldn't care less about Jotunn since they don't seem to exist. What I want is Valhalla.

[Pyromaniac605]

I am tempted to take up Odin worship.

Well, he did fulfil his promise to rid the land of ice giants... 

Couldn't care less about Jotunn since they don't seem to exist. What I want is Valhalla.

Valhalla doesn't seem to exist just as much as Jotunn do, but feasting and battling does sound like an interesting afterlife...