1.) How old are you?
18
2.) What is your religion?
Jewish (What, am I the only one around here?
)
3.) How did you come about your religion?
Born into it
4.) Do you follow the guidelines?
(Yes, No, Only if it suits me)
Yes, as much as I can; but I don't buy into all that orthodox stuff
5.) Have you read up on your religion (Bible, Koran, etc)?
Yes
6.) Do you attend a place of worship?
Yes
7.) How Often (In a year)?
Hrm.....well I used to go regularly (weekly or more), but now I only really go for holidays, but then again, we have quite a lot of those.....so anywhere between...10 and 50 times (?)
8.) If yes to #6, why? If no, why not?
It's just part of observing the religion
9.) Do you pray?
That's pretty much what one does at a place of worship (at least in my religion)
10.) why? Why not?
See #9
11.) Does religion matter when dating?
Yes; the girl has to be of the same religion as I am. This is not because I don't like other religions, but because I only look for serious relationships (e.g. ones that could lead to marrige) and as I want my future children to be Jewish as well, their mother needs to be also (having two parents of different religions causes problems) and therefore anyone I'm dating needs to be.
a.) When making friends?
The only people I would refuse to make friends with based on their religion would either be
a. Extremists
or
b. People who's religion is primarily concerned with pushing their beliefs on me (Mostly Jewish-to-Christian conversion groups like
Jews for Jesus (Wikipedia link, in case you don't know what they are) and the like)
12.) Are you open to other religions?
Everyone else can pray to whomever or whatever they like, as long as it doesn't harm anyone else (no human sacrifices, please). I don't believe in other religions, but other people can follow whatever they want.
13.) Do you believe evolution or creationism?
Ehh, well it's kinda complicated. If I'm sitting their praying, I'd be leaning towards creationism; in science class I'm on evolution's side. The rest of the time I go with that "g-d controls the universe and therefore caused evolution" thing
14.) Overall, do you feel that religion of any kind is necessary?
From a personal standpoint, I think my religion is an important part of my life. From a sociological standpoint, I think that people tend to look for a higher power to give them meaning in life. From a realistic standpoint, I think that a person could survive and function just fine without any belief in a higher power.