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I'm an atheist who finds ancient religions to be interesting. I.E. Egyptian, Viking, Greek, etc. Aka I'm a loser. That doesn't have any time left to do anything not school-related.

I personally am not very religious. I mean I hope and think there is something up there but I'm not sure exactly what. And I like the ancient polytheistic religions. They interest me. Like greek and egyptian. :3

I am a Protestant Christian. I hate the term "religious", though. It has such a nasty connotation these-a-days of fundamentalist nutcases.

I have read the Bible in its entirety, and have also done studying of the circumstances surrounding and concerning the texts. I'm very interested in learning all I can about other religions, too.

I was raised Roman Catholic, but nowadays have sort of faded to a strange mixture of many beliefs, none of which seem to fit into any "organized" canon.

I just have this problem with religions that say, unless you follow x, y, and z and do exactly as we say and worship exactly as we believe, you will be damned. And I wonder, well, what about these children in countries that don't know about this religion? Their parents didn't know, and their parents' parents didn't know, so why should these children be damned because they have no way of EVER knowing? This bothers me to no end. But then I think of the Chronicles of Narnia, actually, and something Aslan says to a character who worshipped the evil god Tash. Aslan tells him that all bad deeds done in Aslan's name are accepted by Tash, and all good deeds done in Tash's name are accepted by Aslan, and thus the character was a child of Aslan. So I'd like to think that the people out there who are doing good deeds are recognized for it no matter what.

As far as religious history, I've studied parts of religious history in numerous cultures, but not the full history all the way through. My freshman year of college I had an honors world history course which was taught by an insane, but interesting, feminist hippie professor and the one aspect she focused on throughout was important religious texts in various cultures. I find religious literature, and the way the literature was compiled, probably more interesting than most people do.

I used the read the Bible a lot as a child just because I found it so interesting, but always wondered if there wasn't more to it. How did they know that these were the right ones, the relevant ones, and who got edited out? I learned in that class that the Bible originally contained much more and some of the more radical or questioned texts were essentially cut out to make the Bible something small, easily hidden, and friendly enough to convert people with in the times Christianity was illegal. It had to serve as a religious text that people could tuck away when someone was looking, as well as an advertisement pamphlet to get people interested. Now I'm looking forward to reading some other religious texts. I actually recently acquired a copy of the Quran as a wedding gift from an Islamic friend. I haven't started reading it yet, but hopefully will have the time soon.

And if anyone is interested, I suggest you read Gilgamesh, an ancient Sumerian epic poem about a semi-divine king. There are astonishing parallels in it to the Bible. There's a famous flood story in it, as well. Actually, if anyone else could mention some ancient stories they've read which include interesting parallels to Biblical stories, I'd be very interested. It's interesting to see how people cobbled together history and myths to make something new.

Er. I think I rambled. I'm sorry. eek

Random religious thought: I need to get me a copy of them old crazy Hebrew texts like the Book of Enoch and go theology happy. WOOT opera-rush! BWAHAHAHA

Sorry. tgas+ opera = HIGH 3nodding 3nodding 3nodding ~bouncy bouncy bouncy~ domokun

I'm a not-baptized in anything athiest and I thank my parents for deciding it was up to me and my brother to choose what religions we would follow if any.

Despite my dislike for actual religion I think the history of religion is quite interesting although not so much that would go out of my way to learn about it. My favourite religion would have to be that of the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans because they're not centred on the one god.

I'm a diest, I suppose. Actually I don't know what I am, I just read a lot of religious stuff and try to figure out what's going on. I'm baptised Catholic, confirmed Methodist, and I came within inches of getting myself initiated into a wiccan coven at one point.

My view of religion is that once you get to the heart of the theology, most of it says the same thing.