Monday, May 19, 2008

BYOG (Bring your own God)

A recent survey asked people which religion affiliated with. For those who didn't fit into a standard category, the survey asked them to write out their religion. Here are the rather interesting collection of answers:

A PERSONAL RELIGION THAT DOESN'T FALL UNDER ANYTHING, believe in all religions, BELIEVE IN GOD NOT IN CHURCH, BELIEVES IN GOD NO PREF, BHUDDISM, BROUGHT UP CATHOLIC, BUT I DON'T PRACTICE CATHOLISM. I HAVE MY OWN, BUDDHIST, CHRISTIAN AND JEWSISH EQUAL AMOUNTS OF BOTH, DONT FOLLOW AN ORGANIZED RELIGION, DRUID, EASTERN RELIGION, GOD, I DONT BELIEVE IN ORGANIZED RELIGION, hindu, i'm spirtitual but not part of an organized religion, I BELIEVE IN GOD BUT I JUST DON'T HAVE A RELIGION, I JUST BELIEVE IN GOD, IFA, MACKENZIES, matieralist , NATIVE AMERICAN, NO PREFERENCE, NO RELIGION BUT I BELIEVE IN GOD, NO RELIGIOUS PREFERENCE BUT I PRAY, NON-DENOMINAIONAL, not an organized religion, objectism, OUTERSPACE, pagan, PANTHEIST, pegan, PEOPLE THAT PRACTICE SPIRITUALITY, personal spirit-walker, PREVERENCE, PTHER, rastfarian, RIGHTEOUS, SATANISM, sikh, SPIRITUAL, SWEAT LODGE, TAOIST, UNITARIAN, UNITARIAn, universal religion, UNIVERSALIST, WICCAN, YAHOO GOD, zarpufda

Thanks David!

4 comments:

Ben Byerly said...

There's also the Jedi religion. I hear it has a ton of followers in the UK. A quick Google search seems to indicate that it already has a number of different denominations.

Brad Wright said...

No kidding... what would be the role of Darth Vader? Evil or redemption?

Anonymous said...

BHUDDISM, BUDDHIST, hindu, sikh, UNITARIAN, UNITARIAn, UNIVERSALIST, WICCAN and possibly several others are organized religions. Not exactly "choose your own God"

Brad Wright said...

Oh, I think that I was emphasizing the wide range of religions available/ practiced here in the U.S. .. not trying to separate organized vs. unorganized.