What Role does Religion Play in Your Life?
Please take a few minutes and fill out this questionnaire. My purpose is to determine what role religion plays in Lithuanians' lives.
Indicate your gender
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Indicate your age
- 38
- 28
- 24
- 20
- 27
- 27
- 23 years old
- 42
- 26
- 42
What is your confession?
- nothing
- nothing. no regrets.
- once i hit my father for hurting my mother.
- i am filled with dark desires.
- believer
- i am a practicing believer.
- i'm forgetful.
- nothing
- i confess to never having confessed.
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Do you consider yourself a practicing believer?
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How often do you pray?
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How often do you go to church (synagogue)?
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Do you adhere to the rules of your confession?
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Do you fast for religious reasons?
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Please explain why
- to be peaceful
- it will increase our mental power.
- because i can't be on an empty stomach.
- fasting provides some peace and is also scientifically necessary.
- i fast for my health, not for religious reasons.
- i don't like fasting.
- it gives me confidence to lead a more fruitful life
- i do it sometimes as part of my religious beliefs.
- i don't fast at all.
- it's healthy too.
Have you got any religious instructions?
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If yes, what? (you may indicate more than one answer here)
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Have you read the Bible?
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Have you been interested in other religions (different from yours)?
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Do you know any religious communities in Lithuania?
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Do you/would you raise your children as religious people?
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How would you react if your children chose another religion, different from yours?
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How would you react if your son/daughter decided to become a priest/nun?
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How tolerant you are of other religions?
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What is your opinion of religious sects?
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Why do you/don’t you believe?
- faith
- if we don't believe in anything, we will be fearless and may commit sins. if we have some beliefs, we will think before we act... because there will be fear... it also provides some motivation to do good deeds if we believe in god...
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- i believe because i have faith in god.
- as i mentioned above, religion leads people to live a fruitful life, which also helps others to live peacefully and in harmony.
- no opinion
- imbibed from birth
- my parents used to...so i also believe.
- i don't see the existence of deities as logical, and none of the explanations given by any religion are sufficient evidence for me to believe them.
- to be honest, sometimes i get the feeling i'm the only one alive who occupies this peculiar lonely position, that is, having embraced an unnamed faith not because i have historically refrained from religion, but rather because religion has refrained from me. it has become much more productive for me to embrace the name of god, by hearing his words, and seeking to be as obedient as i can to his teachings and thereby giving definition to my personal faith, than to have it placed in a denominational category where it would be incumbent upon me to have my faith defined by others. at least this way, i am not tethered to institutional dogma, or to long-held traditional positions which have little chance of future review or inspection. my past scriptural training has been influenced by both jewish and christian sources, and it is there, in that space between them that i currently find myself, and it is at times a very lonely space. i don't see this faith as a combination of the two per se, but rather the logical progression of scriptural reason, when given an environment free from institutional doctrinal restraints. i have found it much easier and more beneficial to question god than to question man. i do think the personage who walked this earth 2,000 years ago was, and is the messiah, but i don't think either christianity or judaism has an accurate understanding of what was at the core of his ministry, or what he was about. in fact, i would go so far as to state that when the messiah comes, it will be a messiah in which christianity and judaism will not be familiar or expecting.