Our member juliarox214 is interested in what religion you grew up with. The actual poll options were copied from some other online poll I found

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http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903

Previous Poll Results:
Question: When you see the title "Prince of _", what word do you use to fill the blank?
Choices:
Tennis - votes: 1043 (35.8%)
Stride - votes: 18 (0.6%)
Persia - votes: 1076 (37%)
Egypt - votes: 269 (9.2%)
the City - votes: 5 (0.2%)
Darkness - votes: 316 (10.9%)
Other - votes: 184 (6.3%)
There were 2911 total votes.
The poll ended: October 21st, 2023 8:31am PDT

Do we have more gamers than shounen sport manga readers? I'll admit that I've never played a Prince of Persia game...

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A just ruler amongst tyrants

No religion - atheist. I still am but I had Christian and Evangelical classes in school. I also read the Bible cover to cover and listened to an audiobook of the Quran and the Gita.
There are slightly more people on the planet without religion in their lives than Buddhists? Thx China? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_religious_groups

No way the Muslim numbers are correct. Not only is it the 2nd largest religion on the planet, but there are tons of Muslims in the anime and manga community. It´s why you know which conflict is talked about ad nauseam on social media right now by accounts all about young adult entertainment for Japanese teens. Those topics really don´t go together but the internet found a way...

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I also read EU/US comics and am a librarian.
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Atheist (still). The amount of Catholics surprised me, but I suppose it's much more common in the United States. I have a fair amount of respect and curiosity towards other religions, but Christianity is the one I'm most familiar with, since my country is Christian and I'm used to going in and out of churches to see inside. I've never set foot in, say, a mosque and don't know the extent to which other religions welcome visitors into their buildings - I would love to go inside though.
As for texts, at most I've read about ten pages of the Bible. Look forward to finishing it however and reading as many others as I can.

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...Hop!

Agnostic Orthodox Christian. We obey only those religion traditions that include reach food festivals.

Lapsed catholic, but leaning very heavily towards agnostic/atheist. (And yes, you can be both agnostic and atheist according to my friend google.).

Christian - Catholic. Honestly thought it was strange that no jewish denominations were listed; they aren't a monolith.

Raised primarily catholic, still primarily catholic. I like how much catholics study other old texts & their constant discussion on biblical interpretations. But like, the church bureaucracy is so stupid, so cowardice, and so evil sometimes (ie often times), that I super understand why peeps leave cos its an effort to stay.

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Internet Lurker At Heart

I don't think this is a question that should be raised here. Nothing to do with manga anime etc. And plenty o polemic

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cogito ergo sun (Decartes)

"No religion - agnostic
No religion - atheist"

This is nonsense.
Especially as the notion of being "raised atheist", or "raised agnostic", is just pure nonsense.
It's just being raised, without religion.
There is no atheism/agnosticism, in the raising, at all.
It should just be "No religion".

Also, the atheism/agnosticism distinction is a nonsensical and confusing one.
Agnostics are atheists, who refuse the "atheist" label.
In the false, misguided, and counter-productive notion, that disassociating yourself with a negatively viewed label, will make you seen less negatively ...despite it being the thing the word describes, that is negatively viewed. Not the word itself. This is the one and only reason, for why the term agnostic exists. (well, this use of it, that is. The term existed before, for other uses, which it is still also used for)

If you believe in a god or gods, you are a theist.
Anything else (including "I don't know" ), means you're an atheist.
This is not only how essentially all atheists define the word, but also how the word is used by atheists and theists, alike. (with the sole exception, of those who insist on calling themselves agnostic. No one else, uses it differently. Some may give a different definition ...but their actual use of the word...)
Agnosticism is not some middle-ground, between theist and atheist.

...and there is no universally agree upon definition, for what the term agnostic means.
It can mean anything from merely not being [b] certain (and no one is absolutely certain, of anything short of "I think, therefore I am", so absolute certainty is a nonsense red herring), to being utterly uncertain.
All that can be said about the word, when used in this context, is that it indicates atheism. So...

As for "Spiritual but not religious"...
What is "spiritual"?
That word can mean practically anything, and thus means nothing.

Last edited by zarlan at 1:32 am, Oct 22 2023

Well...
Most people who have actually read the bible, aren't christian. Most people who have actually read the quran aren't muslim. (some muslims memorize the quran. It's a thing ...but they haven't actually read it)
And the same, for all other religions.

I haven't read them cover to cover, myself (yet), but I've read a lot more of the bible and quran, than the vast majority of believers.
I remember my teacher in my first three years of school, telling some christian stories, around the holidays.At the time, I just took it as mere stories, so I didn't mind in the slightest ...but I'm fairly sure she technically broke the law, by being too religious/preachy (in this secular country, where schools are supposed to be religiously neutral), and wish I'd have reported her.

Yes and no.
It very much depends on the definition of agnostic ...though, as there is no agreement, as to what the word means, and how most definitions of agnostic, makes it a fairly useless term...

Agnostic means you believe there's a higher power, but don't ascribe to any known religion and don't do anything spiritual. Maybe that higher power isn't even a god of any kind, maybe it's just a supernatural force similar to how magic is often portrayed in video games.

A theist who is undecided on which religion they think is correct may call themselves agnostic, but there are people who just believe magic (or something like it) exists without any kind of will of its own.

Atheist means you don't believe in a higher power at all. There is no supernatural force of any kind.

Religious means you ascribe to and practice a set of beliefs as defined in a specific text or set of texts.

Spiritual means you do rituals that are supposed to be connected to the supernatural, but do not ascribe to any particular religion.

Hopefully that helps you understand why they were categorized the way they were. I have not known any definitions of these words to conflict with what I've written, but I have heard people use the incorrect words for what they meant.

Last edited by LazyReviewer at 4:24 am, Oct 22 2023

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I'm a jack of all trades but master of none. Too many jars and not enough hands.

Oh, come on! You couldn't separate Mahayana Buddhism from Theravada? Those two are completely different. I barely recognise any of the Buddhist practices show in animanga, they're so different from what we follow in our country.

Anyway, I didn't vote cos of that reason, but I'm Theravada Buddhist, born and raised. As for practising - I guess? In as much as the five percepts, at any rate, and those are just basic human decency (which are actually not-so-basic, yes, I know), so. Buddhism is wonderful in that way.

Yeah, I feel like there are tons of people that read manga in Middle East and South East Asia which are the most Muslim reside mmm...
There are 2 possible reason why it's relatively low in number in this poll, the first one is just not a lot of them using this site and another is just the timing of the post, it's midnight in South East Asia mmm...

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I will change this world mmm...
So the world can change me mmm...

Confucianism and Taoism shouldn't be together. It's like putting Hinduism and Buddhism together. Actually, grouping all Islam and all Christianity together and expanding in the comments would give better picture poll-wise. And practically no one's raised under Shintoism. It's a cultural religion, more like tradition. Japanese are mostly Buddhist but everyone still goes to Shinto shrines. Also you're missing perhaps the most ubiquitous religion, shamanism.

Last edited by 狂気 at 4:18 pm, Oct 22 2023

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Far-off places with sweet sounding names.

"Do we have more gamers than shounen sport manga readers?"

Wait, Prince of Tennis is Shounen sport manga?
I thought it's for girls that love to see their "prince" playing tennis. 😅