I'm taking a survey and if you could tell me your religeon taht would be great. THNX!!!
2007-04-20 13:11:56 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
atheist
2007-04-20 13:15:04 · answer #1 · answered by cthulhu will raise 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I am Jewish.
Plaestine has never been the name of a nation or state. It is a geographical term, used to designate the region at those times in history when there is no nation or state there.
The word itself derives from "Peleshet", a name that appears frequently in the Bible and has come into English as "Philistine". The Philistines were Mediterranean people originating from Asia Minor and Greek localities. They reached the southern coast of Israel in several waves. One group arrived in the pre-patriarchal period and settled south of Beersheba in Gerar where they came into conflict with Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael. Another group, coming from Crete after being repulsed from an attempted invasion of Egypt by Rameses III in 1194 BCE, seized the southern coastal area, where they founded five settlements (Gaza, Ascalon, Ashdod, Ekron and Gat). In the Persian and Greek periods, foreign settlers - chiefly from the Mediterranean islands - overran the Philistine districts. From the time of Herodotus, Greeks called the eastern coast of the Mediterranean "Syria Palaestina".
The Philistines were not Arabs nor even Semites, they were most closely related to the Greeks. They did not speak Arabic. They had no connection, ethnic, linguistic or historical with Arabia or Arabs. The name "Falastin" that Arabs today use for "Palestine" is not an Arabic name. It is the Arab pronunciation of the Greco- Roman "Palastina"; which is derived from the Peleshet, (root Pelesh) which was a general term meaning "dividers", "penetrators" or "invaders". This referred to the Philistine's invasion and conquest of the coast from the sea.
The use of the term "Palestinian" for an Arab ethnic group is a modern political creation which has no basis in fact - and had never had any international or academic credibility before 1967.
2007-04-23 01:36:53 · answer #2 · answered by Ivri_Anokhi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, that's complicated. My religion is Heathenism. My philosophy is Buddhism. The cult I belong to is the Church of the Subgenius. I identify myself as a Heathen/Buddhist/Wiccan/Subgenii, but often I just go with the all-encompassing term 'pagan'.
2007-04-20 13:44:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neutral
2007-04-20 13:15:56 · answer #4 · answered by Afi 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Atheist/Agnostic
2007-04-20 13:15:22 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Islaam
2007-04-20 13:21:27 · answer #6 · answered by Antares 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No organized religion. Otherkin beliefs (specifically, belief that I was a dragon) explained in part by the link below.
2007-04-20 13:23:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Eclectic Pagan: Earth-based spirituality, yet will accept intelligent information from various sources. In other words, I develop my own.
2007-04-20 13:30:50 · answer #8 · answered by Redshanks 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not a religion but i'm Atheist
2007-04-20 13:28:19 · answer #9 · answered by Krayden 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am free of religion but Buddhism pointed the way to truth.
2007-04-20 13:17:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not religious. Atheist-agnostic. .01% away from atheist-gnostic (like Richard Dawkins).
2007-04-20 13:21:16 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋