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Hindu
 
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Shinto
 
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« Reply #25 on: November 28, 2013, 04:45:58 AM »

Christian--Catholic but not Roman, Reformed but not Protestant.
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« Reply #26 on: November 28, 2013, 05:35:52 AM »

Atheist. Though not allowing any 'none' option other than atheist is a bit disingenuous.
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« Reply #27 on: November 28, 2013, 05:42:36 AM »

Roman Catholic
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« Reply #28 on: November 28, 2013, 05:43:21 AM »
« Edited: November 28, 2013, 08:47:51 AM by Supersonic »

Christian, although that is not synonymous with Catholic.

Technically Church of England, I'm not practising though.
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« Reply #29 on: November 28, 2013, 05:50:15 AM »

Christian (Uniting Church)
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« Reply #30 on: November 28, 2013, 08:41:08 AM »

Catholic
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« Reply #31 on: November 28, 2013, 09:23:47 AM »

Christian (Seventh-day Adventist.)

Although why is Catholic separate from Christian?  Catholics are Christians too, after all.
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« Reply #32 on: November 28, 2013, 08:35:23 PM »

Christian, Protestant (United Church of Christ).
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« Reply #33 on: November 28, 2013, 08:59:07 PM »

Christian, Protestant (United Church of Christ).

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« Reply #34 on: November 28, 2013, 09:54:41 PM »

Presbyterian, the severely conservative kind.

Sounds a bit frightening, but they, hey, you are not as a person the least bit "frightening" at all, nor for that matter "severe" about much of anything. You are one of the most mellow and "centered" chaps on the Forum. Interesting!  Smiley

It's more a question of personal practice than being mean to people. We're a very austere, disciplined bunch.
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« Reply #35 on: November 28, 2013, 09:55:58 PM »

Christian isn't an "or" with Catholic. Catholic falls under Christian. "What are you: American/Southern" and the like is incorrect.

I've heard East Asians use Christian as their word for Protestant quite a bit. It does seem strange though.
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« Reply #36 on: November 28, 2013, 10:05:43 PM »

Christian - Wesleyan (raised Methodist, currently attending Episcopal)
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« Reply #37 on: November 28, 2013, 11:01:46 PM »
« Edited: November 29, 2013, 12:23:27 AM by asexual trans victimologist »

Christian isn't an "or" with Catholic. Catholic falls under Christian. "What are you: American/Southern" and the like is incorrect.

I've heard East Asians use Christian as their word for Protestant quite a bit. It does seem strange though.

I think this is the generally accepted terminology in for instance Indonesian, but I could be misremembering. It is however somewhat odd in the context of Japan, the East Asian country with which I'm most familiar, because in Japanese history Kirishitan refers primarily to the Catholic minority that grew in the sixteenth and was persecuted in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.
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« Reply #38 on: November 29, 2013, 12:14:18 AM »

Christian Universalist (Attending a UU church since there isn't a Universalist church nearby. There are some in Georgia and North Carolina that rejected the merger with the Unitarians in the 60s.)
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« Reply #39 on: November 29, 2013, 11:52:11 AM »

Catholic
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« Reply #40 on: November 29, 2013, 12:10:50 PM »
« Edited: November 29, 2013, 12:13:19 PM by angus »

thus the the moniker has a lessor included category after the broader one.

It seems that your Greek is a little rusty, counselor.  The broader term would be the second one, etymologically speaking.
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« Reply #41 on: November 29, 2013, 12:28:23 PM »

I don't do religion. Awful, awful stuff.
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« Reply #42 on: November 29, 2013, 12:30:11 PM »

None.
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« Reply #43 on: November 29, 2013, 12:51:08 PM »

Christian, although that is not synonymous with Catholic.


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« Reply #44 on: November 29, 2013, 12:59:09 PM »

thus the the moniker has a lessor included category after the broader one.

It seems that your Greek is a little rusty, counselor.  The broader term would be the second one, etymologically speaking.



You lost me. Christian, the first term is broader than Catholic, the second term. I didn't pick the order of the words for the moniker.
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« Reply #45 on: November 29, 2013, 04:11:51 PM »

καθολικός.  It's a greek word that means "universal."  Comes from down+whole.  Cristian comes from Christ, which of course is the English version of Χριστός, "the anointed one."  Catholic, as an abstract concept, therefore, is a much broader one than Christian.

Also, the government of the PRC has five officially-sanctioned religions.  Protestant and Catholic are two of those five.  Being outside Western religion, they are perhaps more objective when it comes to its classification, their subjective classification of Falun gong as a threat notwithstanding.

I think "Christian" is more of a label identifying many religions, despite the dogma that we are taught (or not taught, depending upon your school districts over-reaction to supreme court decisions) in comparative religions classes in school.  I think you can argue that Catholic, Mormon, Jehovah's Witness, Calvinist, Rastafarianism, etc., really qualify as separate religions.  They vaguely resemble one another in creed, but in code and cult they differ markedly.  Moreover, even in creed there are some significant differences.  Some alternative philosophers have been writing about this for some time, and there's a significant body of literature that supports the idea that these disparate faiths united in the coinage "Christian" are really better viewed as unique religions.

In any case, taking a Kantian view, I will suggest that the OP probably meant to be inclusive, and not exclusive, in the voting options.  Y'all need to stop obsessing over the options and just pick one.
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« Reply #46 on: November 29, 2013, 04:45:46 PM »

Well, OK, enough about classification. I would think that believing Christ more than you or I, or anyone else for that matter, had some special connection to God would about do it, but whatever. Some folks focus on what is the same, some on what is different, and using a label that you are for everybody, and one size fits all, sort of like the Model T black Ford, is certainly good marketing, and I have to give the Catholics credit for that. And I picked my option before nit picking anyway, so it was not as if I was deflected or anything from seeing the forest through the trees. This time at least. Smiley
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« Reply #47 on: November 29, 2013, 05:54:29 PM »

Greek Orthodox
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« Reply #48 on: November 29, 2013, 06:12:24 PM »

It is really complicated with me.
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« Reply #49 on: November 29, 2013, 06:59:32 PM »

Well... your mother is Monica Lewinsky and your father is Bill Clinton.  That would definitely be complicated.
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