Religion?

What are your views on religion?

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It seems like whenever anyone has a "weird" belief system or "my/their own" belief system, it's just a bunch of garbage that they thought up by themselves and thought "Hey! That sorta makes sense! Now I can be a religious hipster!"
 
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Recently I looked more into Judaism (and am interested, if any Jews on here would like to teach me more about their beliefs), and quite frankly, I find it fascinating (in a good way). If any of the western-religions are 'progressive', I would say Judaism is it. Their beliefs are just so different than I thought.

Personally, with religion, I just don't like to offend people. I will defend myself and my arguments if necessary, but I don't like it to come to that. I like discussing religion, not agruing about it. I like when people share ideas an stuff, and don't have to be about "I'm right, though" or "well, your beliefs are ********" (even if they are).

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insane569 said:
i find religion to be ********
the majority of my family is church of god 7th day and i was too until about a year ago when i started to question faith and religion. the main reason i questioned it was because of one question
Who Created Us. Who Created The Universe. i questioned my god and according to some church friends you cant believe in god if you question him
so i became atheist and continued to question religions. although im very interested in other religions mostly to find connections between them and see if there is actually a god i cant seem to find any solid answers. all are made up gods that cant be proven to exist so i stuck with the thought of
we are the children of evolution
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This makes me think of the question, "what's more important? Faith or Truth?"

collinbxyz said:
I think that the OP should make a poll for what religion you believe in, just to see the percentage cleanly layed out. I would put things like: atheism, christian, jewish, muslim, buddhist, hinduism, etc. Just the major ones.
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Will do. (How do I make it a poll?)

Hershey said:
Atheism isn't a religion though.
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I'll just make the poll like "What are your views on religion?" or something ambiguous like that.
 
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I think if people stay on topic this thread could be interesting and won't end up like the other threads similar to this.

Personally, I'm agnostic but I go to youth group every single Saturday. I was kind of christian (went to church every sunday) until I was 5 then my parents stopped going to church which means I stopped going. A couple years ago (about a year before I started cubing) a friend mentioned that I should go to youth group to meet some friends. I did and I'm still kind of stuck in the middle. I'm testing to see if he is real but at least I'm willing to give him a chance. Now that I finished writing that deism just popped into my mind....
 
Yuxuibbs said:
I think if people stay on topic this thread could be interesting and won't end up like the other threads similar to this.

Personally, I'm agnostic but I go to youth group every single Saturday. I was kind of christian (went to church every sunday) until I was 5 then my parents stopped going to church which means I stopped going. A couple years ago (about a year before I started cubing) a friend mentioned that I should go to youth group to meet some friends. I did and I'm still kind of stuck in the middle. I'm testing to see if he is real but at least I'm willing to give him a chance. Now that I finished writing that deism just popped into my mind....
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I used to go to youth group at my friends church. I still enjoy things like that, even though I'm an atheist. Hanging out, eating food, playing games, and learning about Christianity is enjoyable.
(I know other religions have youth groups, but I've only ever been to a Christian one.)
 
I notice atheism, anti-theism and nihilism are listed as one choice but agnostic is a separate choice. Why?

Also you left out a few major world religions in favor of a couple of particular branches of Christianity.
 
I don't know why I'm jumping in on this but..... for what it's worth....

Most people I know who 'claim' to be atheist still call to god when the chips are down. Most people I know who 'claim' to be religious are anything but (except on Sunday). I choose to go a third path... wait and see. And, in the meantime....when the opportunity presents itself, I go to church, observe the sabbath, pray to Mecca, basically whatever I can to cover all bases.

-george
 
So what I need to clear up first is that, though it is commonly stereotyped that your parents force you into Christianity, I was given a choice before confirmation as to whether or not I wanted to fully join the Catholic Church). I have to say that I honestly thought about it especially when one of my friends from church decided not to go through with it and said he didn't believe. That set aside I will continue.

A very common attack of all Christian churches is the bible and interpretation. I personally think that much of it is not meant to be 100% literal but rather, are stories to outline certain philosophies. This goes hand in hand with my argument against "pure" creation science (evolution is definitely plausible). That being said, where many Christians see science as a threat ,I see it as the means by which God (whatever you believe he is) acts within this universe (we go through processes in order to do things so why wouldn't a God).
^(Almost all of my philosophies are based off of what is mentioned above.)

As for my thoughts for religious discussion, I support respectful conversation.(This being said I'll use the example of how I used to really like thunderf00t but then realized how much of an @$$hole he really is after watching more videos).I am against blatant insults in argument, and personally am against the "rational" movements which Atheists have, because of the connotations of claiming that they are the only rational ones.

That is all I have to say generally, anything else would be me getting very specific and would be kind of awkward.
 
Catholic. I like that I'm encouraged to believe in what I want to believe about the world, like evolution, because the beginning of Genesis could very well be an analogy or something. I still have to believe we're all descendants from A and E though, but yeah.
 
Agnosticism isn't a position comparable to theism or atheism. It pertains to what you 'know' as opposed to what you believe. It's entirely possible to be an agnostic atheist ot a gnostic theist.
 
Muesli said:
Agnosticism isn't a position comparable to theism or atheism. It pertains to what you 'know' as opposed to what you believe. It's entirely possible to be an agnostic atheist ot a gnostic theist.
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"An agnostic is just an atheist without balls." ~Stephen Colbert
 
Judiasm was never started. according to numbers brought down in the bible there was a god fearing persen in evrey genaration. noah was alive till metushela shem and aber the 3 of wich lived till the times of abrahm. abram independitly discovered that the idols of the day couldn't be gods. he discovered one G-d and spread the faith.

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That being said, where many Christians see science as a threat ,I see it as the means by which God (whatever you believe he is) acts within this universe (we go through processes in order to do things so why wouldn't a God).
^(Almost all of my philosophies are based off of what is mentioned above.)
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What meany people don't realize is that most of this stuff has been covered by modern jewish philosephers. they link and show that the simple interpatation of the creation goes hand in hand with science. Just search Dr. Nathan Aviezer.

PS. The above Dr. and most others have interpretations that fit the christian faith.
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