<story><title>Poll: How religious is hacker news?</title><text>After seeing the top post related to OneBody the open source Church project I found myself curious as to how the rest of hacker news identified themselves spiritually. Sometimes we make assumptions about a particular group of people and this poll seems like a great way to challenge those assumptions and take a closer look at who makes up the hacker news community. So....&lt;p&gt;How do you identify yourself spiritually?
(Please comment if you choose Other.)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanalltogether</author><text>Having grown up in the church, I have honestly never found a good replacement for the sense of community and support that a church offers. Its a shame that no other non-religious organizations have been able to replicate it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChikkaChiChi</author><text>I would contest that any communal group that meets face to face regularly develops similar bonds and that this is not exclusive of spiritual gatherings.&lt;p&gt;I think over the past few generations we have lost more of those reasons to get together, and church is one of the last hanger-ons of these close knit communities.</text></comment>
<story><title>Poll: How religious is hacker news?</title><text>After seeing the top post related to OneBody the open source Church project I found myself curious as to how the rest of hacker news identified themselves spiritually. Sometimes we make assumptions about a particular group of people and this poll seems like a great way to challenge those assumptions and take a closer look at who makes up the hacker news community. So....&lt;p&gt;How do you identify yourself spiritually?
(Please comment if you choose Other.)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanalltogether</author><text>Having grown up in the church, I have honestly never found a good replacement for the sense of community and support that a church offers. Its a shame that no other non-religious organizations have been able to replicate it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akgerber</author><text>The Unitarian Universalist church is non-creedal and has many atheist members. Many cities also have Ethical Culture Societies, which mostly grew out of the non-religious elements of the Jewish community.</text></comment>