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I was just wondering seeing as religion and its cause and effect are such big elements of dune, what everyone's religious inclination was. Also does anyone here know any Muslims who have read Dune (or are one) and if so what is their take on it?

I myself am a inscidious Athetist here to polute the minds of your kids

I'm a dislexic agnostic. I don't know whether or not to believe in Dog.

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Abide

Freakzilla wrote:I'm a dislexic agnostic. I don't know whether or not to believe in Dog.

Anyone heard of a Korean religion called Cheondoism? They have some intresting belifes, seeing as they try to blend Korean shamanist, Christian, socialist and humanist thought.

Is "Jedaism" from the Star Wars book KJA wrote out on a napkin?

i am an orthodox herbertarian but I chose rastafarian as a second choice as I smoke a spliff everyday

Atheist through and through.

lotek wrote:i am an orthodox herbertarian but I chose rastafarian as a second choice as I smoke a spliff everyday

That doesn't make you a Rastafarian, just a pothead.

yeah I don't have dreadlocks either come to think of it...

I'm a sort of hopeful agnostic. I find Quakerism to be, intellectually, the most sound religion. I also find Taoism really interesting.

lotek wrote:yeah I don't have dreadlocks either come to think of it...

Do you believe Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I was the messiah/divine, vegetarianism and abstain from alcohol?

(If you want you could throw in white hate and African pride.)

Kensai wrote:Also does anyone here know any Muslims who have read Dune (or are one) and if so what is their take on it?

This is actually an interesting question. My impression is that interest in science fiction in the Muslim cultures/countries still lags behind the rest of the world.

(Khalid Baheyeldin, who maintains that "Islamic/Arabic terminology in Dune" page, claims he has never actually read the books, for example.)

A Saudi I went to school with, Misfer Al Awar, was amazed to find arabic words in CoD, not so much that he'd want to read it.

Freakzilla wrote:

lotek wrote:yeah I don't have dreadlocks either come to think of it...

Do you believe Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I was the messiah/divine, vegetarianism and abstain from alcohol?

(If you want you could throw in white hate and African pride.)

Good question(s)!

Not sure about H.Selassie but why not(him or another...)
Veg': no way I could stop eating meat
Alcohol: do you mean t-total or just not much?

I'm sorry
For something I didn't do
Lynched somebody
But I don't know who
You blame me for slavery
A hundred years before I was born

Guilty of being white

I'm a convict
Of a racist crime
I've only served
19 years of my time

Guilty of being white

Minor Threat | Guilty Of Being White

I chose agnosticism because it's the coward's way out.

newfacedancer is the true Messiah, the Lisan al-Gaib

No, he's al-Lisan al-Ghabi: the Vox Stulta, The Stupid Voice.

Superdog wrote:I'm a sort of hopeful agnostic. I find Quakerism to be, intellectually, the most sound religion. I also find Taoism really interesting.

Taoism isn't a religion its just a philosophical mindset. Taoist practices frequently get intertwined or occur alongside Chinese shamanism so it often gets confused for being a religion. Bruce Lee was a pretty firm atheist (self confessed and later confirmed by his wife Linda) yet he belived in Taoist thought, a lot of which is prevelent in Jeet Kun Do philosophy (empty cup).

I get along with Buddhists, fellow atheists technically.

I'm inclined to believe that I Am God - where's the bloody option for that?

Infidel

Aquila ka-Hecate wrote:I'm inclined to believe that I Am God - where's the bloody option for that?

Infidel

Thou art god, grok?

Rob

Robspierre wrote:Thou art god, grok?

Almost in fullness.
Waiting is.

Kensai wrote:

Superdog wrote:I'm a sort of hopeful agnostic. I find Quakerism to be, intellectually, the most sound religion. I also find Taoism really interesting.

Taoism isn't a religion its just a philosophical mindset. Taoist practices frequently get intertwined or occur alongside Chinese shamanism so it often gets confused for being a religion. Bruce Lee was a pretty firm atheist (self confessed and later confirmed by his wife Linda) yet he belived in Taoist thought, a lot of which is prevelent in Jeet Kun Do philosophy (empty cup).

That's actually a matter of some debate. I've read people who say that the idea Taoism is a philosophy and not a religion is a Western invention.

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