How Jeffersonian are You?

[gottaB]

Poll question: How Jeffersonian are You?

My mom's been telling us about a poll she saw on AOL that showed almost half the respondents claiming to be deeply religious, or very religious. She's appalled, being quite the athiest. Me, I'm neither surprised nor particularily worried, being myself both deeply religious and more devoutly athiestic than my mom.

Anyway, it struck me that my views may be a wee bit out of synch with the rest of the nation. What are your views? When it comes to religion, how Jeffersonian are you.

[cherryperry]

1. Hey, do you have 2 personalities?

How can you be both deeply religious and devoutly atheistic? Unless you mean you worship atheism... Whaaaaaaaaa?

[gottaB]

2. well, I probably do have schizo tendencies

but I am not put off by religious matters, and deeper than that, I'm an idealist. No, I don't worship athiesm or worship anything really, but some things may be as good as sacred to me--but because I'm willing to ask myself what that means to hold something sacred, and what's the diff between being holding something "as good as" and say "truly" sacred, I think that makes me deeply religious.

Books on my desk at home right now include things like explications of Dogen, and Derrida's On Forgiveness, and his On the Name which I have for his take on the chora (which is an exegeisis of Timaeus, you know, but really I take as a dialogue with Kristeva).

[cherryperry]

4. I wouldn't call that schizo,

I would call that spiritual and, IMHO, that's a good thing!

:yourock:

[izzie]

3. Scary that our culture has become like the Arabs.

Our religion or else. Scary as as all get out.I do not like the way we are going at all.