#nones

[your-friendly-neighbor-nerd]

Hey anyone know why everything SUCKS rn

[lenbryant]

Gallup Polling: US "Religious Nones" At Record High - Joe.My.God.

Gallup Polling reports: The percentage of Americans who say religion is “very important” in their lives has leveled off below 50% in recent

The flying nones!

[lenbryant]

I think these church survey groups forgot about one of the Ten Commandments: Thou Shalt Not Lie (your asses off).

[bricehammack]

Nones

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Hawaii

Oahu

Waikiki

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[pochaulloac]

varios

[driftglazz]

“If both the religious and the SBNR are largely still committed to belief in “God” (of some sort) as indicated by the data, and both the religious and SBNR are engaged in some practices traditionally labeled as “religious”, then the distinction between the two groups may have less to do with such beliefs and practices and more to do with the way that being “religious”, at least within some particular historic/cultural frameworks, has come to indicate a very particular set of sociopolitical commitments, rather than theological ones.”

and

“What becomes clear from the data is that the SBNR do not reject theism, say, but merely the presentation of theism as found in historical religious traditions and institutional expressions. For example, 67% are “absolutely certain” in their belief in God, 24% are “fairly certain”, only 2% are “not very certain,” and 5% “do not believe”. It is important not to miss this point: more than 90% of the SBNR affirm some form of theism.5 Importantly, this demonstrates that the rejection of the “religious” moniker does not equate to an atheistic or even agnostic identity (though such identities are definitely on display). This is an important point to the new phenomenological analysis that I will offer in what follows, and so worth special emphasis here. SBNR are not “not religious” in the sense of not believing in God. Instead, they are “not religious” in contrast to some other notion of “religion” that needs careful articulation—hence the role that I propose philosophical hermeneutics and new phenomenological analysis can play in making sense of what is being revealed/given in the self description of SBNR. In the same vein, the SBNR are not “not religious” because they have abandoned all traditional embodied habits associated with “religion”. In particular, 57% engage in prayer or some other sort of meditation daily, 12% weekly, 6% monthly, and 22% never.6 Strikingly, 73% report a feeling of spiritual peace and well-being at least weekly, 12% monthly, 4% yearly, and only 8% claim only seldom or never to experience such a feeling. Despite such frequent affects, practices, and beliefs that one might quite plausibly understand as “religious”, 69% of the SBNR say that they seldom or never attend religious services, and 76% say that they seldom or never participate in “prayer, scripture, or religious group meetings” (Pew 2021). From this striking distinction between the selfprofessed rejection of “religion” and yet the continued affirmation of and participation in practices historically understood as “religious” phenomena, what the SBNR are rejecting shows itself to be more a matter of the particular form that “religion” takes. As indicated by the lack of official attendance in religious group meetings, we might say that the SBNR are explicit in their rejection of active participation in historically identifiable religious communities. That is, the SBNR pray often, but rarely go to prayer meetings. They belief in God, but rarely attend religious services. They feel spiritual well-being, but do not associate that feeling with an affiliation with religious institutions.”

from Simmons, J. Aaron. 2021. Religious, but Not Spiritual: A Constructive Proposal. Religions 12: 433.https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12060433

[mint-in-the-moonlight]

took me a little longer and can't wish a happy Nones anymore but here's my plan for the month! i've realised that I can only do one larger-ish celebration per month before i overwhelm myself so i might make a post about that but for the rest i usually do just a normal offering and prayer ritual for a specific deity.

14th - Equirria part 2

15th - Feriae Iovi

17th - Liberalia + Agonalia in honour of Mars

19th - Quinquatrus

31st - celebration of Luna