Show your Catholic faith!

[DemBones DemBones]

Go post in this poll:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3102711


How easy is that? :7

[JohnKleeb]

1. Done

hmmmmmm nearly half of the board is athiest or agnostic.

[UrbScotty]

2. That doesn't surprise me

What does (pleasantly) surprise me is that there are almost as many Catholics as there are Protestants.

[Stunster]

3. Without knowing

how many registered DU users there are in total, the poll is not telling us much.

But yeah, I voted.

Catholic, if you must know. ;-)

[pres2032]

6. well we know that doesn't represent the nation

the nation is somewhere like 55% protestant, 30% Catholic, 8% athiest

[JohnKleeb]

12. Yeah I hardly know any real life athiests

[CBHagman]

4. Made me a little sad, to tell the truth.

I saw the percentages for atheist and agnostic.

However, I was heartened to learn there are Muslims among us. We've got Mormons, too, or at least people who were brought up Mormon. I'd like diversity, even if we clash a bit.

[JohnKleeb]

11. We do have mormons among us

and he defends the church for us at times. He's a good guy, friend of mine.

[Hans Delbrook]

5. It was easy!

And fun.

Was anyone else surprised at the low number in the Jewish category?

[Stunster]

7. A little

but I wouldn't be surprised if a number of those describing themselves as atheist or agnostic are Jews by family origin.

Certainly a high percentage of Jews are liberal Democrats, so you would expect quite a few to be members of DU.

[pelagius]

13. About 1 in 3 American Buddhist converts are of Jewish backgroud. n/t

[FarLeftRage]

8. Still at 16% Catholic

after I voted...

Not surprised.

[Matilda]

9. Done.

[Princess Turandot]

10. There are almost 65,000 members of DU...

A poll registering such a small proportion of that is pretty meaningless imo. I suspect that the ticked off atheists who post a lot were probably very motivated to 'show their colours', so to speak.

[DemBones DemBones]

14. I tend to doubt all 65, 000 are still reading DU, though.

Two things I know: many have been banned and many are multiple names for one person.

But you're right that such a poll shows little. I just thought we should be well-represented because I think our numbers are always underestimated. B-)