Poll: How religious is hacker news? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: How religious is hacker news?

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Post by imsofuture » Sat, Jul 26, 2014, 1:49 AM UTC

"Theist" should be a choice. I believe in god/a god, perhaps (likely?) not a knowable one.

Re: Poll: How religious is hacker news?

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Post by gyrogarant » Sat, Jul 26, 2014, 1:49 AM UTC

How come that there is no 'Feminist' option?

/ducks ...

Re: Poll: How religious is hacker news?

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Post by imsofuture » Sat, Jul 26, 2014, 1:50 AM UTC

beefsack wrote: post #31

The idea of religious engineers has always been one that fascinates me.

False dichotomy.

Re: Poll: How religious is hacker news?

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Post by STRiDEX » Sat, Jul 26, 2014, 1:50 AM UTC

I feel like atheist and agnostic are too concrete.

I view it like non-Americans view thanksgiving. You can read the wiki page and it makes sense, but I'm not going to go out of my way to do it too. It's not really something that applies to me.

Re: Poll: How religious is hacker news?

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jul 26, 2014, 1:51 AM UTC

conception wrote: post #14

SoftwareMaven wrote: post #5

So do Mormons get to check two boxes? Mormons are Christian.

Mormons are Christian in the same way that Muslims are Christians and Christians are Jews, though.

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Re: Poll: How religious is hacker news?

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Post by georgemcbay » Sat, Jul 26, 2014, 1:51 AM UTC

netgineer wrote: post #26

The one scientologist is a troll, right? .... right?

One of my early jobs (mid-90s) was working for an unnamed but relatively famous (for the time) ISP in Los Angeles where the vast majority of other employees turned out to be Scientologists. They do exist in the tech industry.

Re: Poll: How religious is hacker news?

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Post by zaphar » Sat, Jul 26, 2014, 1:52 AM UTC

beefsack wrote: post #31

The idea of religious engineers has always been one that fascinates me.

I'm one.

Feel free to ask me anything you want. With the caveat that I don't participate in uncivil discussions.

Re: Poll: How religious is hacker news?

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Post by Dewie » Sat, Jul 26, 2014, 1:52 AM UTC

designNERD wrote: post #3

You can be an Agnostic Atheist. Agnosticism is about whether you believe you can prove the existence of God or not. Atheism and Theism is about actual belief in God. One can be an Agnostic Atheist or Agnostic Theist. Agnostic atheist= I don't know whether we can prove God exists but I don't believe in God Agnostic theist= I don't know where we can prove the God exists or not but I do believe in God. Being an agnostic…

I don't like to say that I'm an agnostic or atheist or anything like that, because why would I? If I don't believe in a god, calling myself an atheist is like calling myself a non-Christian if I'm not a Christian, or a non-Jew if I'm not Jewish. Why would I define myself in contrast to whatever other religious groups there are, when I'm areligious (at least in my case)? It doesn't make sense.

So because I don't believe in an Abrahamic god, I'm still supposed to take a stand/have an opinion on him. Why? Do Christians have an opinion/stance on Vishnu?

Re: Poll: How religious is hacker news?

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Post by bunkat » Sat, Jul 26, 2014, 1:54 AM UTC

netgineer wrote: post #26

The one scientologist is a troll, right? .... right?

I've never understood why people put Scientology in a different bucket than other religions such as Christianity. I wonder why you didn't comment 'The 79 Christians are trolls, right? ...right?'

Re: Poll: How religious is hacker news?

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Post by hrasyid » Sat, Jul 26, 2014, 1:55 AM UTC

designNERD wrote: post #3

You can be an Agnostic Atheist. Agnosticism is about whether you believe you can prove the existence of God or not. Atheism and Theism is about actual belief in God. One can be an Agnostic Atheist or Agnostic Theist. Agnostic atheist= I don't know whether we can prove God exists but I don't believe in God Agnostic theist= I don't know where we can prove the God exists or not but I do believe in God. Being an agnostic…

You can check both