Organized religion has me soured
If you don't mind sharing, what's your religion?
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Whatever it takes to keep my employer from forcing me into govt mandated poison injections. I will be baptized into that **** pronto
Believer - If Im wrong about it, nothing lost, we all pushing up daisies regardless.
But If I’m right, Yahtzee baby.
But If I’m right, Yahtzee baby.
I don't believe in any man made diety. But I believe in some kind of higher power whether it's the universe or whatever. I can just feel it in my bones that something happens when we die. I also don't have a problem with others beliefs. Just don't try and force it on me. And don't legislate it.
Agnostic - modern atheist.
Wouldn't consider myself an atheist by common parlance because you can't prove a negative. I see no concrete evidence of a God, quite the contrary, but I can't PROVE there isn't one.
Wouldn't consider myself an atheist by common parlance because you can't prove a negative. I see no concrete evidence of a God, quite the contrary, but I can't PROVE there isn't one.
I've always considered myself a Frisbeetarian. All praise be to Wham-O! I've lived a pretty decent life but I'll admit I have flown off course at times. If all goes well I'll end up on the roof and that's my goal. Don't want to be like some friends who ended up in the sewer.
Same.
If I was forced against my will to pick one, I reckon I would choose Hinduism.
If a person "doesn't mind sharing," it's probably a good one, but there's more to religion than just sharing. It's a good start though.
I've always thought childbirth was a miracle myself. Not a process that could just happen on its own IMO.
This thread has been a very interesting read. I am thankful for most of the honest responses, as I did not expect that when I opened it.
My mother attempted to raise me Catholic. My senior year in high school, I tried to commit. I stopped drinking, went to church and decided tothink about and mean the words we repeated, not just say them.
I went to college and decided that religion was corrupt. I was polite to most who had beliefs and very interested to challenge those beliefs, much like I see in this thread, but was a professed agnostic (I too got preachy about others preaching). Depending on my mood and the group in which I found myself, I might call myself an atheist. But, in my heart, I knew the answer was that I just did not know.
In my thirties, after a night challenging my wife’s beliefs, I felt like a hypocrite, because I was talking a lot about the Bible, but realized I had not really read it. I decided to read the Gospels, so that I would know what Christians believed and could better challenge them. Reading it, however, changed me. After years of people trying to get me to believe, I found the scripture made the case for Jesus. For God.
I do not believe that ancient texts are the only way people learn about God, as I have experienced unexplainable things. But, a 2000 year old book did what no believer seemed to be able to do. No one was more surprised than I was.
That said, I know that as an “atheist,” I could not claim to be “good.” Not because of my beliefs, but because the concept of “good” is founded in a constant, not a belief. Just about anything can be good if there is no foundation beyond just what we feel. Good can be how we please others and are accepted, but if you think good is raping little girls and boys, it’s really just an opinion. Atheists I know talk about saving the earth for their children’s children, but without something truly good, destruction of the earth just is. Not good or bad. Continuation of life is not good or bad, unless you believe YOU will live forever. But, even then, it’s just a selfish opinion. You may “feel” otherwise, and that is your right, but good always just comes down to a feeling or opinion. And, if you live long enough, you see what used to be “good” become less than and things that were not “good” be described as such.
As an agnostic, I never felt any need for belief. I considered myself a fairly good person. I might exaggerate or tell a little fib to protect my image, but I did not think I needed a savior. But, if you asked me to honesty compare myself to what I thought would be pure or holy, I would admit that was not me. But, then, who is? We are all just human.
As a believer, my life has changed. I am still often a sarcastic prick, but I do love people in ways I never did. I find drift and stagnation in my life at times. But, that is usually because I stray from my relationship with God. The same happens when I drift and become lazy with my relationship with my wife or anyone else. Relationship takes two.
This is me. I an open to the idea of a higher power and having a soul, but the man-made stories come off as ridiculous BS to me.
As you said, I don’t care what others believe or which deity they do or don’t worship, but don’t preach it to me and damn sure don’t legislate it onto my back.