SL attraction to non-believers

oooo... good job Roseann... I voted in this one and it is the one I remembered.

59.12% of respondents answered the question "Do you believe in God?" No.

That seems to be pretty much along the line that I believe is still true.

This is the off-topic forum and so it seems to me to be a perfectly appropriate place to discuss religion, or politics. I know that there are many forums on the internet where one can go to discuss these things in particular but I believe that the sl forums offer a certain sense of community between people with a wide divergence of opinion who might not have otherwise come together or thought to discuss some of the topics that come up here had they gone to a more specific forum.

The forums are a completely different game than SL - they just share the same name and, I believe, has only about 10-20% of the same players.

Most of the people playing the SL forums are vocal and opinionated. They are just itchin' for a fight, regardless of the topic.

If you applied the question to politics/taxes/sexuality, you would probably find the same about of signal to noise ratio that you see regarding religion.

Frankly, this forum is not the place for discussions of those topics, because we all end up getting covered in mud. And, by association, so does the rest of the SL community. All SL needs is a bunch of people basing their opinions of the entirety of SL on 30 or 40 forums denizens that like to opine (myself included).

So we get questions like yours that say that a disproportionate amount of SL players do not believe in God. What the hell does one's religion have to do with a video game? If you are so almighty concerned about this, I suggest learning to get along with folks who don't think like you, or go to the Christian Gamer's Alliance.

well, maybe because people with the curiosity to want to create and explore a new world full of posibilities are more likely to question antiquated, bigoted, psuedo-historical mostly non-scensical documents that are so riddled with inconsistancies that the same religion is so vastly different from one group to the next to the point where each version of the religion spawns sects that want to literally kill the other sects...yeah...

but that is just RELIGION, God is a whole other thing, God doesn't create religion, man does, and man is flawed therefore religion is flawed. I would say a majority of s/l residents have a spiritual connection to a creator, perhaps something we might consider God, perhaps we understand God more than the masses as we have a world that emulates a world created by a divine being....

59% doesn't really count...unless everyone in the forums posted a reply and then still the forums arent an accurate representation of in SL in world.

Well, it counts as a statistical analysis with a margin of error. I am not a statician but if there is one here that could comment I'd bet that the standard of deviation would no where near allow a swing from 59% to say 6%.

Sure it counts unless you do not believe in statistics. 137 votes seems like a whole lot to me and a very good representational statistical base for a pretty accurate poll.

if it were 137 votes on whether or not you logged into SL today then yeah I would agree...but 137 out of how many posters? ...on a topic that is very personal where some may not even vote because they don't care to discuss their religious affiliations on a forum.

The poll also depends on the questions asked....there may not have been a checkbox there that accurately described many peoples spititual beliefs.

And again the forum represents a small part of SL.

TY Aku, I totally agree.

Alan, if you do not want to discuss my topic how about trying something weird... like NOT CLICKING ON, READING AND RESPONDING TO THE THREAD if it doesn't interest you. Funny how you don't think this thread should be here yet feel some uncontrollable need to make a post expressing your opinion. As evidence, it must have been interesting to you since you felt strongly enough to post.

You really should go back and read what I said too. I clarified that I was talking about "SL forum posters", not SL as a whole. How about reading and responding to what was actually said before throwing darts at it.

Billy, quit spamming the forums with all your religious garbage. (eidted)

~Ulrika~

Don't like my question... it's simple... don't read it sweetie.

Billy, quit spamming the forums with all your religious garbage. If you want to convert for your cause, go hand out copies of the Watchtower on the corner with the other Jesus freaks.

~Ulrika~

IMO he is neither spamming or preaching in this thread but attempting to engage in dialog. That is what forums are for.

IMO, responding with "Alan, if you do not want to discuss my topic how about trying something weird... like NOT CLICKING ON, READING AND RESPONDING TO THE THREAD " when I did respond to his question is not a plea to exchange in dialog. I don't know what his motives were for asking the question, but it sure as hell wasn't dialog.

Anyway, Chip won the thread.

IMO he is neither spamming or preaching in this thread but attempting to engage in dialog. That is what forums are for.

In reference to spamming, how many active religious threads are there right now (five)? In reference to preaching, what was the purpose of the Cricifixion (sic) thread?

~Ulrika~

The gist of the post to which he responded with that was, as I understood it, not responding to his question at all but rather saying that he shouldn't have posed it in the first place and that he was somehow damaging the reputation of sl by doing so. Under those circumstances I don't see how else you could expect him to respond. Looking at most of his replies to other posters in this thread he certainly seems to be engaging in dialog with them.

Feel free to have continuing to discuss this topic, but please do not resort to name-calling and other personal attacks in order to 'argue' for your side.

The question was not about religion daz. Please read the thread starter before comemnting.