What spiritual path do you follow?

Christian is also kind of a catchall in itself. You are not going to find that a Byzantine Rite Catholic and a Baptist from central Florida have any common ground to speak of, besides things that they are both against other people doing. I personally feel much more comfortable discussing religion with Moslems or even Hindus than I do with some of the more colourful evangelical sects out there.
Only the LDS really considers itself to be a fully Christian denomination. I would say that they are about as Christian in content as in the Unitarian/Universalist denomination, i.e. it can vary quite a bit from conventional doctrine in several areas, according to personal taste.

Erisian...

All hail discordia!

Fnord up, yo. :tabs golden apple with FIC triangle::

So, actually, are Buddhism and Islam. This is probably true for several others listed in the poll. At first I thought of noting such but then I considered it too fine a point...

...but I admit I should have looked more carefully at the poll. I saw Buddhism right near the top and clicked it so I didn't scroll through the options to note that significant lacuna pointed out by others. Oh well.

I follow Weberism at the Little Church of the Feted Butterfly

That is absolutely true, there is Theravada Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Vajrayana Buddhism, and a few other sects that don't come immediately to mind. Buddhism has evolved into different schools so that it can be relevant to the many different cultures in which it is followed. It has also been reinterpreted over thousands of years so that it can remain relevant to each new generation. Outwardly, the types of Buddhism may seem very different but at the centre of all of them are the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. All major religions have split into schools and sects, but the different sects of Buddhism have never gone to war with each other and to this day, they go to each other's temples and worship together. That is not the case with other major religions.

Hinduism differs from Christianity and other Western religions in that it does not have a single founder, a specific theological system, a single system of morality, or a central religious organization. It consists of "thousands of different religious groups that have evolved in India since 1500 BCE."

Quote from David Levinson, "Religion: A cross-cultural dictionary," Oxford University Press, (199.

Sorry David I think I covered my back side on this already.


About finding more Jews or Mormons then Shinto, so what? We will find more Hindu then Jews. So should we say only the top 3 religions? Christian/Muslim/Hindu and forget every one else?? One can’t do a poll on religion of spiral paths with out offending some one. I already said sorry if I left yours out.

Also as others have pointed out, Mormons are followers of JHC there for they are Christians.

My path is sometimes crooked and sometimes more like a culd-a-sac (is that how you spell it...what an odd word) I try to follow the philosphy of the hole though, as in if you walk down a path and fall in a hole try to remember the hole is there and choose a new path. Other than that just trying to do right by my fellow man even if it means knocking him/her in the head to straighten him/her up (or knocking myself in the head...which happens alot).

Most of the dudes we built religions around likely never really wanted it the way we interpret. I mean after jillions of translations and all the kings men muddying the waters with dirty fingers who the hell really knows what the original "prophets" of any structured spirtual path said. Seems to me they just wanted to give everyone a blue print towards a decent life.

That said I follow the church of Waltism where everyone runs around from tram to tram with smiles on their faces and takes mouse eared pictures that their grandchildren will be embarrassed about for years to come. Ohh and Jiminy lays down the moral code so I suppose he is the prophet of Waltistic religion.

My path is sometimes crooked and sometimes more like a culd-a-sac (is that how you spell it...what an odd word) I try to follow the philosophy of the hole though, as in if you walk down a path and fall in a hole try to remember the hole is there and choose a new path. Other than that just trying to do right by my fellow man even if it means knocking him/her in the head to straighten him/her up (or knocking myself in the head...which happens alot).

Most of the dudes we built religions around likely never really wanted it the way we interpret. I mean after jillions of translations and all the kings men muddying the waters with dirty fingers who the hell really knows what the original "prophets" of any structured spirtual path said. Seems to me they just wanted to give everyone a blue print towards a decent life.

That said I follow the church of Waltism where everyone runs around from tram to tram with smiles on their faces and takes mouse eared pictures that their grandchildren will be embarrassed about for years to come. Ohh and Jiminy lays down the moral code so I suppose he is the prophet of Waltistic religion.