Honest question. Is this site a religious site?

Would you like me to pray for you?

havent read all of this but will later!

LOL at christian site as a born again Richard Dawkins admirer! Perhaps this is an atheist site but hides it well.

Eh???

This really is the absolute last thing I would have ever thought about MN.

WHERE have you been looking to even think this about MN??? You clearly haven;t looked hard, or been here long, or did you type one word into the search bar and it threw you here??

or are you just trying to test the waters on here before coming in and starting a complete ruckuss(however the fuck yoou spell that word??)............

but what are you reading to get this impression??

I have used mumsnet for nearly 3 yrs , and looked at that many topics, and would never have contemplated your question. Have you honed in on one or two threads, that have been a debate?

Also, if you have an opinion of other religions, then surely it is your right? Have you seen dissaproval from Christians, if so where?

and no, i'd say this was a multifaceted site, that reflects the broad spectrum of religions, beliefs right across the board.

Our father who art in heaven
hallowed be thy name
thy Kingdom come thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.

WHERE are these fabled bumsex threads can't seem to find them

Non practising tho

You will find lots of religions on here, but not one person that shoves their religious views onto others, at all.

Most MN'ers are very tolerant and helpful, and i find religion comes into it not one little bit.. And i am fairly new here too.

Takes all kinds to make the world so interesting

OP hope you settle in soon and begin to enjoy the site and the ppl on it

Quite a few posters here seem to be saying, "How could it be a Christian site? Look at all the references to bumsex!"

Is there a prohibition against that in the Ten Commandments?

Or, conversely, do you have to have bumsex to be a good agnostic/atheist?

I was going to suggest posting about what colour to paint your kitchen to judge the depth of materialism on the site

then I saw your thread about ramekins

There have been a bunch of religious things recently partly around the whole Rev thing, I think. Mumsnet doesn't strike me as a Christian place at all. It is a place where if you use "witch" in a negative context you'll be pulled up by the pagans, and where you'll get Jewish posters discussing the ins and outs of kosher cooking and other things that I forget (I can name several Orthodox Jewish posters off the top of my head, anyway). And there are oodles (relatively speaking) of Muslim posters. And lots and lots and lots of atheists. As someone said, just wait for the next faith schools thread (although I've given up posting on those now, I imagine UnquietDad is still rallying the forces).

I can also think of several avowed Christians on the site. But no more than simple statistics would suggest. And only a few who bring it up a lot (and I don't resent those posters bringing it up a lot because it's clearly an intrinsic part of who they are and they are warm and funny and intelligent posters and post on lots of other subjects too).

I do have the Religion topic hidden, mind you, so for all I know maybe the Christians are all plotting board takeover in there. But I rather doubt it.

It's not a Christian site, no. It's not a pro-anything site, really. There are lots of posts on almost any subject you care to mention. As others have said, there are plenty of bumsex threads but I don't think this is a bumsex site masquerading as a parenting site...

Hecate, good one!

I was probably thinking of Shrek's "Ogres are like onions, Donkey. They have layers" but I don't always read what I type in.

No.

How odd that you should think that.

I'm an Atheist and I haven't noticed any religious bias. Just as in life mumsnet has some Christian people on it. As an Atheist I choose not to live my life making constant jusdgements about people based upon their religious choices just as i would hope they don't..

onager - you mean it stinks and it makes you cry?

IME the number of "Christian posts" is far outweighed by the number of

knitting posts
chicken keeping posts
mooncup posts

What a strange OP.

I haven't noticed any religious affiliation on here. I would have said that most of us are irreligious, tbh.

I'm personally into trollism, and it's gaining ground, I can tell thee!

To me Mumsnet is currently a small onion.

what's with the 'honest question' in the subject line?

is it akin to 'I'm not racist but' or 'I'm not trying to be funny but' or ?

you haven't looked around enough or spent enough time on here if thats the pigeon hole your putting mumsnet in.

its is literally all things to all people.

take your time

perhaps the site is going through a contemplative phase

wait till the recession lifts and we'll be back to shoes and home improvements