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Monk
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I don't think we're in Brønshøj anymore
Jan 1970
time: 06:19
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I was a member of the Evangelical Lutheran church from my baptization in 1997, but I eventually signed out a few years later, partly because my spirituality is a personal thing and partly because I think there's something horribly wrong about not seperating state and church.
Oh, and I didn't want to pay 1% of my income in church taxes.
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Wycoff
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I'm an agnostic. I don't think that we can prove that there is no higher power, but I've never found a religion that has appealed to me. If there is a god, then I imagine him in a Deist construction, an entity that created/began everything but doesn't get involved in daily life. I'm not willing to say there is no god. I have no proof of that. I think it takes just as much "faith" to be an athiest as it does to be devoted to some religion.
I was raised Christian, and the rest of my family is Christian. I simply don't believe the basic premises of the religion. To me you're either religious or you're not. It is not a matter of intelligence; I know some brilliant Christians, and I know many idiot athiests. I think it comes down to a personal "gut " feeling. It makes sense to you or it doesn't. People then build their outlook from that initial gut feeling. I'm just not a spiritual person, and I am almost completely certain that I'll never become religious.
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Sava
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GO GO GO!
Mar 2001
time: 23:19
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I'm an agnostic, leaning towards atheist. I don't believe in any religion. I think most religion is dangerous. It's dangerous to put blinders on and have faith in superstitions and myth. The story Jesus Christ is no different than Zeus and the Greek gods... myth and legend.
People tend to mold "God" after themselves. God didn't create man in his own image, man created God in his own image. And I'm not really any different. If there is a God, I believe him to be fair and just and hold the same values as myself. After all, it is only human to believe God holds the same values as yourself.
What do I believe? I don't know what to believe. But I know what NOT to believe... Jesus, Allah, Yahweh, Zeus, Poseidon, Thor, Ra, etc...
No human being knows what happens when we die. That's why all religion claiming to have truth is wrong. And likewise, anyone who tells you they know the truth is either lying or dillusional.
Being an agnostic is the only prudent thing to be. Any other beliefs border on insanity and dillusion. And for some people, that's okay.
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BlackCat
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quote:
Originally posted by Spiffor
(well, supranatural beliefs are relevant when trying to understand human behaviour, because the fact that people believe is a reality. The content of the bliefs is not) |
I hope that you mean - "there are religious persons and they react due to this" and not "because some people beliefs in the supernatural then we have to take the supernatural seriosly" ?
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alva
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Republic of Flanders
Sep 2001
time: 06:19
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None.
Though I was baptised, but mostly because of the grandparents and then later did my first communion due to pressure from the school(what you doat the age of around 6, don't know the crrect English term).
I actually only only did it at the age of 8 when I transfered to a Catholic school.
I was not required to do so, but they "appreciated" the gesture.
I did not do the full communion ( at the age of 12 ), because I thought it was hypocrital seeing as everyone just did it to get the gifts.
It was actually at this school where my resentment for religion grew.
I couldn't stand the fact that teachers tried to brainwash us, 'winning' discussions with 10 year olds on a subject that you've spent 20-30 years studying didn't really classify as an achievement with me.
Such as playing Devils advocate where we has to convince him God exists, etc...
* spits on floor *
Anyway, I belief - even cynical old me, yes - in mankind with all it's errors but also with all it's brilliance.
It is time, we shed the yoke (? that the right word?) that is religion and move on our own.
Am I 100% sure there is no god, off-course not, no-one can. Do I care or do I think it matters? Hell (<-- see what I did here  ) no!!!
If there is one though - and of this I am pretty sure - he will not be anything any religion claims he/she/it is and I'm sure he wouldn't give a **** either.
Some say there is a light at the end of the tunnel when you die, and yes, there will be. It's a train coming at you at 200 miles an hour...
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Jethro83
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Newcastle, Australia
Mar 2002
time: 15:19
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I don't belong to any religion. My soul is my own, my life is my own, and my money is my own, and I don't need anyone to tell me how to live (or die). I can strive to be wise, compassionate, honourable and knowledgable without conforming to someone else's model of the universe.
As for the existence of God(s), like quite a few people who already posted here I can't help but accept that their existence cannot be proven or disproven.
Besides, even if the gods exist up there in another plane, what does that mean for us down here on this plane? Absolutely nothing IMHO.
So if I'm anything, I'm Agnostic.
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JimmyCracksCorn
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Macedonia - Sovereign country north of Greece.
Dec 2002
time: 05:19
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Some religions are secular, like Buddhism. They've got alot of really great and insightful aspects to them.
I'm actually going to be doing anthropological fieldwork at a Buddhist temple this winter... could be interesting.
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