as much as we love our hpones, eventually we get tired of talking about our phones. so we wanna talk about something else !

I find that to be an interesting sentiment. I don't see how you're drawing that conclusion, unless you believe us to be part of god in some way.

I am definitely the geeky and the nerdy type. My friends consult me about technology purchases, and I work in IT (I'm so hesitant to tell people that, because the next phrase I typically hear is: "really? Well, I have this computer...").

Anyway, I consider myself pretty religious (I pray five times a day), and I voted.

I had friends in chemistry class who were comfortable talking about chemical reactions like this: "so element x wants to bond with element y, but ..." They found it easier to put facts that way. Some people talk about the universe in terms of god or gods. The universe has plenty of mystery in it. Thinking about it as if a super-person controls it isn't such a bad way to get a handle on it.

Funny how the voting progresses... As the evening proceeds from the East coast through the Midwest, the percentage of religious voters has slightly risen. Then, as Australia awakes, and later after Europe has voted (by the time I am up tomorrow), I expect the percentage of religious voters to drop below 20.

Fascinating... and yet it moves.

I would say I fall in the strongly atheist camp but I do have great respect for good people of different faiths. Over here in Finland a recent study showed that only 2% of people go to church and that faith was mostly a private thing never discussed in the open. I prefer it this way.

I find it interesting that the question is defined in terms of a dichotomy with "religious" at one end and "atheist" at the other.

I think it's very reasonable to consider atheists to be religious. Like other religious people, they believe (sometimes strongly) in a proposition that cannot be tested, and some are quite willing to proselytize for it.

The opposite of "atheist" is "theist". And while many of the most successful religions are theistic (Christianity, Islam and Judaism, to name a few -- in alphabetical order) others are not. Where do Buddhists fit on this continuum? How about agnostics?

I think the correct opposite of "strongly religious" would have to be "entirely indifferent to religious ideas". Otherwise, the discussion almost invariable turns into an argument between different types of beliefs, rather than a comparison of belief with non-belief.

well lets get this party started right!!!!!

here is my 2 cents..
I think religion is awesome and mine is the best and blah blah and so what im going to mecca and then to temple and then to the strip club and i love to pray but i also like to worship my phone as it does rocketh! maemo.org is some what of a bible and i am not broke and starving just because i paid 700 bucks for my n900 when i knew i couldn't afford it. I am just "fasting" I feel as though God is ______ and our world revolves around the almighty ______ so I love each and every last one of you. but not in that way. in the other way. and if your a hot girl then maybe in that way. especially if your a tech geek. so hard to find hot tech geeky but still hot girls in sunday school but i do look for them faithfully. I pray to the east. and then to the west. and then to the north. and then to the south just in case god decides to move around a bit. So in conclusion my friends here in this thread and col37400(new friend).... i suppose you cant judge a book by its cover. I guess even tech folks like religious apps too?

Not sure if anone's pointed this out... but aren't political and religous discussions "against" the Off-Topic forum rules?

EDIT: Mefails at reading the first page. My bad.

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I have already been offended 14 different ways by this thread. not the titlle of it. that wasa a interesting observation that made me go Hmmmm, however what came after was well.. i wont say. but i haev been offended