Your Views On Religion

[Jack]

I have Christian beliefs, but I go back and forth about them. I'm not a Fundamentalist Judeo-Christian like many of my relatives are. I think that following peaceful spiritual teachings will greatly benefit all of us. However, organized religion of all kinds has wreaked untold havoc on humanity.

[enigma]

I'm what you would call a strong agnostic. Religion isn't something I want to get involved in, but I realize that some people find solace or meaning in it. In other words, it's a live and let live philosophy, as long as no harm is done to others. I also think that it's a bit myopic to easily dismiss millennias worth of social thought that has been encompassed in various creeds.

[whateva]

I believe in emmanation through a series of stages from an undivided unity(God) to yet greater magnitudes of being.

Thus i'm a kind of semi-monoteist believing there are in a sense many Gods but that they all reflect one God.

Hinduism or occult Christianity would be close I suppose. I draw much of my religious inspiration from Alchemists.

[Funk Monk]

Agnostic when I have to choose, but in every day life I'm practically a hardcore atheist.

That still doesn't keep me from liking the moral values of the major religions, of course.

[oldpretan]

Societies only exist because they have rules for human interactions.
Those with the more useful rules survive & prosper.
Religions embody these rules but have frequently graven them in stone.
Societies with no means of adapting their rules to changing circumstances stagnate. Life is movement, the grave is still.

I was brought by a narrow minded censorious Christian control-freak father, I shucked off his unquestioned beliefs by the power of reason & intellect and have not transmitted them to my children, who seem a far happier bunch than myself & my siblings.

I find myself puzzled by clever people who, from my viewpoint, are still subject to religious superstitions, there always topics of conversation that are taboo or which will elicit a doctrinaire response. However, if it keeps them happy and they don't seek to use the power of the state to force their moral codes into my private life, I'm fine with it.

[whateva]

oldpretan said:

I find myself puzzled by clever people who, from my viewpoint, are still subject to religious superstitions, there always topics of conversation that are taboo or which will elicit a doctrinaire response.

Religion doesn't have to be like that. I developed my religious views in private from reading various religious texts. Noone ever dictated to me what I should think.

[murphee]

I have Christian beliefs. Not a fundamentalist, easy-going and accepting of others' beliefs or lack thereof.

[Clemo]

I used to be religious, but I never really could bring myself to believe all the tenents. The silly wordplay just seemed absurd. I am still a Deist, since I don't deny the possibility of God. I just
don't pray and I don't ask or expect much in return.

I still enjoy learning about religion just as another part of learning about mankind.

I still feel some connection to being a Catholic, kind of like I still feel a connection to being a boy scout.

[tyrannos]

I'am a Confirmed Roman Catholic..I respect and honor certain traditions and other things,but have no use for the Papacy or the Modern Church and the current state of Christianity in general. So religion in general doesn't interest me much.

* I do like and strongly agree with certain aspects of the Enlightenment Concept and Occultism.

[atessalev]

Being a good person is more important than being a Muslim.

That's the simplest way to sum up my beliefs.

[rhoadie]

I'm a Christian. I am very interested in learning the Hebrew roots of the Christian faith.

[Cameo]

I am strongly Christian and was raised in the church, thus my life is base upon the Bible to a large degree, but not in a fundamentalist way. I do believe that the Bible is the only one True Word of God and the only way to salvation.

[imaginarypallies]

I'm of the true religion,(Along with Yankel more or less) and as of a little while from now i wont be posting till Saturday night

[Jack]

imaginarypallies said:

I'm of the true religion,(Along with Yankel more or less) and as of a little while from now i wont be posting till Saturday night

Cool! It's good to hear that you guys converted to Christianity.

[Mike the Jedi]

lol... I love how he says "more or less" in reference to Yankel.

Anyway, I don't belong to a church or a denomination, but I am what you'd call a Christian. If I wasn't that, then I'd be agnostic. Certainly not atheist.