Which religious group would you trust the most?

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  • john welsford
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2002
    • 7755

    Which religious group would you trust the most?

    Here's what New Zealanders think.



    Just in case you don't feel like looking at the linked data, Evangelical Christians are right at the bottom, least trusted, Buddhists at the top, Catholics, Muslims, and Protestants in the middle.

    John Welsford
    An expert is but a beginner with experience.
  • Andrew Craig-Bennett
    Who?
    • Aug 1999
    • 28468

    #2
    Re: Which religious group would you trust the most?

    I think that is not the right link.

    But I will trust the Quakers before anyone else.
    IMAGINES VEL NON FUERINT

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    • epoxyboy
      Senior Member
      • Sep 2005
      • 6223

      #3
      Re: Which religious group would you trust the most?

      Yep, I was thinking Buddhists. Those Engineering Plastics though, they're a rum lot ;-)
      You might want to check that link!

      Pete
      The Ignore feature, lowering blood pressure since 1862. Ahhhhhhh.

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      • epoxyboy
        Senior Member
        • Sep 2005
        • 6223

        #4
        Re: Which religious group would you trust the most?

        Originally posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett
        I think that is not the right link.

        But I will trust the Quakers before anyone else.
        The sophistry they engage in, to work around their own rules, is a bit amusing. Landline in the house, verboten. Landline to a little phone booth outside the house, OK. Cellphone anywhere? That's fine, as it has no "connection" to the outside world - or some bollocks like that.

        Pete
        The Ignore feature, lowering blood pressure since 1862. Ahhhhhhh.

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        • john welsford
          Senior Member
          • Sep 2002
          • 7755

          #5
          Re: Which religious group would you trust the most?

          Originally posted by epoxyboy
          Yep, I was thinking Buddhists. Those Engineering Plastics though, they're a rum lot ;-)
          You might want to check that link!

          Pete
          I will.
          Thanks,
          JW
          An expert is but a beginner with experience.

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          • john welsford
            Senior Member
            • Sep 2002
            • 7755

            #6
            Re: Which religious group would you trust the most?

            Here we go, shoulda checked it first time.



            John Welsford
            An expert is but a beginner with experience.

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            • john welsford
              Senior Member
              • Sep 2002
              • 7755

              #7
              Re: Which religious group would you trust the most?

              Originally posted by john welsford
              I will.
              Thanks,
              JW
              Coincidentally I've got a block of UHMW coming from them in the next day or so.


              John Welsford
              An expert is but a beginner with experience.

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              • Hallam
                Senior Member
                • Feb 2012
                • 6821

                #8
                Re: Which religious group would you trust the most?

                I don't trust anyone untill i get to know them.
                Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci.

                If war is the answer........... it must be a profoundly stupid question.

                "Freighters on the nod on the surface of the bay, One of these days we're going to sail away"
                Bruce Cockburn

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                • skuthorp
                  Senior Member
                  • Jan 2002
                  • 73625

                  #9
                  Re: Which religious group would you trust the most?

                  Bhuddism is more a philosophy than a religion in my estimation.

                  If I have to pick a group that I know of and that has a record, I'd pitch for the quakers too. I freely admit I do not know enough about the small sects that abound in all religions, and in Bhuddism too of course.
                  But any group is made up of human beings, and we are all suspect by definition.

                  I try not to be in any camp at all. Unless believing in nothing is classified as a 'camp'.

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                  • Phil Y
                    Banned
                    • Apr 2010
                    • 21066

                    #10
                    I'm thinking religion is pretty much by definition irrational. It follows that believers cannot be relied on to act rationally. So they can't be trusted.

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                    • RFNK
                      Port Stephens, Australia
                      • Feb 2007
                      • 26953

                      #11
                      Re: Which religious group would you trust the most?

                      I can't abide the Buddhists
                      Or Worshippers of Goats
                      Born Agains and Catholics,
                      God help us, are there more?
                      But the Quakers I can tolerate
                      As I do enjoy their oats.

                      Rick
                      Rick

                      Lean and nosey like a ferret

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                      • birlinn
                        Isle of Mull, Scotland
                        • Jul 2011
                        • 10883

                        #12
                        Re: Which religious group would you trust the most?

                        Originally posted by epoxyboy
                        The sophistry they engage in, to work around their own rules, is a bit amusing. Landline in the house, verboten. Landline to a little phone booth outside the house, OK. Cellphone anywhere? That's fine, as it has no "connection" to the outside world - or some bollocks like that.

                        Pete
                        Seems bollocks- not like any Quakers I know, and I get to a few meetings.
                        Our local Mull contact gives his phone number and email address online.
                        You sure they are Quakers?
                        Last edited by birlinn; 08-13-2019, 04:48 AM.

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                        • Andrew Craig-Bennett
                          Who?
                          • Aug 1999
                          • 28468

                          #13
                          Re: Which religious group would you trust the most?

                          What birlinn says, goes for me. I have friends who are members of the Society of Friends, I sometimes go to a meeting. A glance at the internet shows all the meetings within a reasonable radius of my home, all with web pages, contact phone numbers, emails and so on.
                          IMAGINES VEL NON FUERINT

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                          • Ron Williamson
                            Rocketman
                            • Apr 2000
                            • 7885

                            #14
                            Re: Which religious group would you trust the most?

                            Originally posted by epoxyboy
                            The sophistry they engage in, to work around their own rules, is a bit amusing. Landline in the house, verboten. Landline to a little phone booth outside the house, OK. Cellphone anywhere? That's fine, as it has no "connection" to the outside world - or some bollocks like that.

                            Pete
                            You might be confusing the Quakers with Amish/Mennonite.
                            R
                            Sleep with one eye open.

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                            • Andrew Craig-Bennett
                              Who?
                              • Aug 1999
                              • 28468

                              #15
                              Re: Which religious group would you trust the most?

                              Originally posted by Ron Williamson
                              You might be confusing the Quakers with Amish/Mennonite.
                              R
                              I think that must be the explanation. Anyway, right at the top of my trust rating scale.
                              IMAGINES VEL NON FUERINT

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