12-11-2003 20:14									#31
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You forgot 'libertarianism' too (if we're including economic policies as religion).

quote: and in this argument I am ignoring all the religious aspects of atheism

Glad to hear it, since they're aren't any.

	12-11-2003 20:16									#32
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btw, I picked 'shintoism'.

	12-11-2003 20:19									#33
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quote: btw, I picked 'shintoism'.

Not much to it that I can see, although it is certainly all-powerful. God help the world if Amaterasu and Co. ever decide to venture out from this sacred land.

	12-11-2003 20:23									#34
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Sounds like a law firm.

Amaterasu, Kami, and Oni.

Prepare to get 'sued.

	12-11-2003 20:24									#35
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quote: Originally posted by Sikander This is like Christians insisting that there is a religion called Satanism, when in reality it's just another part of Christianity. Communists created a straw man and called it Capitalism, and used it much as the Christians use Satan, in order to scare people into their flock. Deal with it, your government is based on sh!t.

Off-topic, insulting, and severely mistaken on several different counts. Wow. Capitalism is existent as a separate system from communism, just like the more moderate forms of socialism. It's mostly mentioned in the context of Communism debates because the rest of us don't object to it, but capitalism is just as "real" as communism.

And while Satan is a Christian concept, to suggest that satanists are a mythological subset of our faith is ludicrous. They're a reactionary group that exists for shock value, but they do exist outside of Jack Chick tracts in thankfully small numbers.

	12-11-2003 20:25									#36
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quote: Sounds like a law firm. Amaterasu, Kami, and Oni. Prepare to get 'sued.

Lawyer-gods? Is there anything more frightening? I told you these guys were all-powerful...

	12-11-2003 20:32									#37
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Hmmm....I wonder how you'd say 'lawyer-god' in Japanese...

	12-11-2003 20:36									#38
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弁護士神, possibly...

	12-11-2003 20:45									#39
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Try romanji. Whatever you typed sure didn't translate well.

And I should've typed "prepare to get 'tsued," which is what I was aiming for. It would've been hilarious. Ah well, another comedic failure.

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	12-11-2003 20:51									#40
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You have to set your browser to Unicode to see the kanji. It's "bengoshi-kami" in romaji.

	12-11-2003 21:26									#41
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Atheism is not necessarily the lack of religion; rather, it is simply the belief that there is no God. It is still theoretically possible to follow some kind of religion, and be atheist.

	12-11-2003 23:34									#42
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I voted atheism; it is the only option which does not require the use of misleading words such as : faith, belief, trust, intention or sincerity.

	12-11-2003 23:39									#43
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Onanism.

	12-11-2003 23:44									#44
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Daoism isn't too bad.

	13-11-2003 00:05									#45
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quote: Originally posted by DAVOUT I voted atheism; it is the only option which does not require the use of misleading words such as : faith, belief, trust, intention or sincerity.

I like your outlook on life

JOn Miller

	13-11-2003 00:13									#46
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* Ben Kenobi flames Da Shi.

Catholicism and Protestantism are not different religions. They are branches from the same tree. Therefore I will protest your obviously inaccurate and carelessly flawed poll by voting for the banana religion.

	13-11-2003 01:43									#47
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My favourite religion is Give Birdseed Stuffism. I don't practice it myself but it does have a certain je ne sais quoi.

	13-11-2003 02:02									#48
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quote: Originally posted by Elok Off-topic, insulting, and severely mistaken on several different counts. Wow. Capitalism is existent as a separate system from communism, just like the more moderate forms of socialism. It's mostly mentioned in the context of Communism debates because the rest of us don't object to it, but capitalism is just as "real" as communism. .

Im not sure thats quite true. There's a market economy, private property, etc - but what is capitalism? Why privilege the role of capital or its owners in charecterizing a market economy? Historian Ferdinand Braudel, who most certainly DID believe that capitalism was a useful category, still felt the need to justify that assertion. (BTW he did not consider capitalism identical to a market economy with private property)

	13-11-2003 02:19									#49
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Power. All lefty political analyses are more-or-less based on who's got the power and who should have it. Thus commies lift our the owners of capital as they're the ones who weild most power in a capitalist economy.

Could you withhin their belief system design a market economy with private ownership where capitalists (marxist sense) did not weild the most power? Possibly. You could ban corporations for instance, or require all companies to be owned privately-yet-collectively by the workers...

	13-11-2003 02:24									#50
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judaism. at least the hasidic guys with funny beards and hats

	13-11-2003 02:33									#51
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Monotheistic religions are boring.

	13-11-2003 03:49									#52
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Hindi - you got love Ganesh - a dude with an elephant head. And that chick with six arms... And Brahma has four faces on his head to look in every direction! Awesome!

	13-11-2003 05:04									#53
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****, Kannon has eleven heads and a thousand arms...

Buddhism 1 - Hinduism 0

	13-11-2003 05:57									#54
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damm!

	13-11-2003 08:18									#55
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quote: Originally posted by Drake Tungsten How can a person living in China leave Daoism out of a religion poll?

Because Daoism is not a religion?

	13-11-2003 08:25									#56
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quote: Catholicism and Protestantism are not different religions. They are branches from the same tree.

In addition, if you seperate Catholicism and Protestantism, then you have to seperate out Protestantism, because you have very different variations there.

	13-11-2003 10:12									#57
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I've always had a soft spot for the Church of the Most High Goddess. You went in, paid her husband a "love offering," then took the Goddess into the back room where she performed a ... uh ... "religious" ritual on you.

She tried to defend her prostitution charge by arguing the First Amendment. It didn't work.

	13-11-2003 10:32									#58
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True Imran. There is no one true 'Protestant' church.

	13-11-2003 11:37									#59
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quote: Because Daoism is not a religion?

I would've thought you'd know your own country's history better than this. Not all Daoists follow what could be called a Daoist "religion", but there has been a significant religious form of Daoism in China for thousands of years. It was one of the main competitors to Buddhism in China for a long time.

	13-11-2003 12:12									#60
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The confusion arises because there's no differentiation in English between the two, though in fact they are very different from each other and should have separate names in English, as they do in Chinese.