A Few Quick Questions

[jerkgirl]

Survey
My name is Fiona Stott and I am currently in my last year of high school. This survey is for my Personal Interest Project in one of my Higher School Certificate subjects, Society and Culture. In taking 5 minutes to complete this survey you will be helping me complete my HSC. Please answer this survey honestly and without bias. Any questions in this survey that may offend or upset you, I apologise for. Thankyou for your time.

1: Age: Sex:

2: What religion or spirituality were you born into?

Christianity Agnostic
Catholicism Protestant
Islam Uniting Church
Buddhism Other (please specify)
Hindu
Atheist

3: What religion or spirituality do you now consider yourself to be now?

Christianity Agnostic
Catholicism Protestant
Islam Uniting Church
Buddhism Other (please specify)
Hindu
Atheist


4: If you have changed your religion or spirituality since birth, please explain why.





For the following questions the definition of mainstream will be what is socially acceptable and commonly practised.

5: Which of the following religions and spiritualities do you consider to be mainstream? .

1.Christianity 7.Sikist
2.Catholicism 8.Hindu
3.Witchcraft 9.Confucianism
4.Islam 10.Scientologists
5.Buddhism 11.Judaism
6.Indigenous beliefs 12.Protestant

6: Which of the following religions and spiritualities do you consider to be not of the mainstream? Please circle.

1.Christianity 7.Sikist
2.Catholicism 8.Hindu
3.Witchcraft 9.Confucianism
4.Islam 10.Scientologists
5.Buddhism 11.Judaism
6.Indigenous beliefs 12.Protestant

Australian Census results show that there has been a 2.9% drop in Christian god based religions and a rise in Buddhism (42.9%), Hindu (54.4%) and Islam (36.2%) from 1991 to 1996.

7: Why do you feel there has been more interest in the less mainstream religions as opposed to more mainstream religions?

[a random hack]

hi fiona,

good luck with your HSC :)

1. 35, m

2. was raised atheist, but chose to attend uniting (?) church at age 10- 14, starting because my friend was attending for a while, and my parents didn't appear to have any problem with that. mother was raised catholic, father was raised some brand of christianity, both very lapsed, one grandmother was jehovah's witness in late life, and other grandparents, mother's side, were catholics.
currently, mother is lapsed catholic, and father nominally buddhist, but not sure how devout :)

3. other - nothing organised, tho. no name, but based on taoism and buddhism, more than any other religion i have read about :lol:

4. changed because was seeking answers, which ultimately no religion could provide, merely point to, at best

5. they all are :lol:

6. obviously, none of them :lol:

7. different, maybe more satisfying, answers

[jerkgirl]

Thankyou so much!! The date of completion of this project is looming ever closer and your help has been really appreciated and valued!!*HUGS*

[a random hack]

huggggs :hug:

[thirst4sun]

Hello Fiona :)


1. 32, F
2. Catholic
3. :huh: Unsure........I am learning new religions and I agree with certain points of each of them. Mainly buddhism but I don't cosider myself to have a "label" to any particular religion
4.I havn't changed my religion, I just disagree with some points of the Catholic religion.
5.All.
6. None
7. <_< Tough question...............People like to learn new ideas, these other religions are intersting to learn about.

Well I hope I was some help. Good Luck :thumbsup:

[vicente]

1: 50 male

2: Catholicsm

3: Ontosophy ( Spiritual Atheist )

4: Decided to choose truth over faith, belief, hope.

5: In America, only Christianity and Judeaoism is mainstream. The Constitutionally illegal National Motto 'In God We Trust' promotes an environment where atheists, polytheists, Buddhists, Deists, Wiccans, Humanists, female based monotheists, etc, are not full members of the Community, thus not part of the mainstream.

6: In America, Sikist, Hindu, Witchcraft, Confucianism, Islam, Scientologists, Buddhism,Indigenous beliefs.

Poll: Protestant majority in U.S. eroding
Dropped from 63 percent to 52 percent in a decade
The Associated Press
July 20, 2004
The United States will no longer be a majority Protestant nation in years to come, due to a precipitous decline in affiliation with many Protestant churches, a new survey has found
Between 1993 and 2002, the share of Americans who said they were Protestant dropped from 63 percent to 52 percent, after remaining generally stable since the McCarthy Era, according to a study released Tuesday by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.
At the same time, the number of people who said they had no religion rose from 9 percent to nearly 14 percent, and many are former Protestants, the survey’s authors said.
Defining Protestants
The study was based on three decades of religious identification questions in the General Social Survey, which the opinion center conducts to measure public trends.
The United States “has been seen as white and Protestant,” said Tom Smith, director of the General Social Survey. “We’re not going to be majority Protestant any longer.”
Respondents were defined as Protestant if they said they were members of a Protestant denomination, such as Episcopal Church or Southern Baptist Convention. The category included members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and members of independent Protestant churches.
Among the reasons for the decline were the large number of young people and adults leaving denominations as the number of non-Protestant immigrants increased, comprising a greater share of the population. Also, a lower percentage are being raised Protestant, Smith said.
'Christian' factor?
Smith said it is also possible that some former Protestants are now identifying themselves only as “Christian,” a choice on the survey.
The Roman Catholic population has remained relatively stable over the period, making up about 25 percent of the U.S. population.
People who said they belonged to other religions — including Islam, Orthodox Christianity or Eastern faiths — increased from 3 percent to 7 percent between 1993 and 2002, while the share of people who said they were Jewish remained stable at just under 2 percent.

7: Why do you feel there has been more interest in the less mainstream religions as opposed to more mainstream religions?

Mainstream religion is a lie, and can be proved to be a lie, in any American court of jurisprudence.

:)

[taimoor2]

1- Male
2- Islam
3-Islam
4- Never Changed because I am completed satisfied by my religion.
5-Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Scientologist.
6-Witchcraft,Sikist
7- Islam and Buddhism. Both are two religions that are always expanding. Especially facts given by Islam are extremely scientifically accurate. The un-scientific nature of Christianity, goes against Cristianity. For example Church believes that Sun revolves around the earth. Realization that hand created Gods can nor do any harm neither can it provide any benefit de-attach people from religions like Hinduism. There are thousands of other reasons too.

P.S: Hindus and Christians please take no offence.