The all-purpose religious affiliation poll!

[Alcon]

I figure that this is an inevitability.  No debates, please.  Just the facts.  Thanks.

And, if you're something like "agnostic Jew," vote agnostic/atheist.  Cultural religious background is interesting but not the intent of this poll. 

Agnostic

[Alcon]

Alcon...next time can't you split agnostic and atheist up? To me, the difference between them is pretty big.

That's true.  In retrospect I have no idea why I put them together.

It's not as if deism is much more removed from agnosticism as atheism is.

[Alcon]

What's with the Deism, people?

I'm surprised there aren't fewer affiliated people and more deists.

It seems a lot easier to accept that God exists than to accept that God exists and you're 100% sure about a bunch of complicated doctrine.

[Alcon]

...what? I always thought deism was the specific belief that God created the universe and then took a time-out and ceased to intervene in human affairs. I don't condmen that or anything I just thought it was a bit odd that so many peopel believe in that. But maybe I'm completely in the wrong here.

I just looked up "deism" in about ten different dictionaries/encyclopedias, and only two of them listed that as the primary definition.

[Alcon]

2nd EDIT: Wikipedia seems to agree with me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism

Sort of - it seems not to include that as part of the definition so much as a typical trait of a deist, which is more in line with what I'm familiar with.