I follow the great thinkers of this country's past and agree with them that religion and bright colours are for the simple minded.
Poll: Are you religious?
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I'm agnostic, but I hate religion. Not faith, faith is good, I'm jealous of people who find confort in faith, but organised religion is bad.
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there is nothing to be jealous about the ability to shove fault,responibility and credit to nonexistant things. If bad stuff happens its time to do something, not sit around wishing very very hard that spacegenie stops it.Richardplex said:
I'm... not sure actually. I guess I'm Agnostic, but like I said, I have no clue...
It doesn't help that I distrust people who use religion for their own ends, and not in the good way...
It doesn't help that I distrust people who use religion for their own ends, and not in the good way...
Depends on the faith. Comfort about death, having a purpose in life, it can be good. Though I don't suffer a problem from the former thankfully.Fetzenfisch said:
Many will argue that those who would answer yes to this question (and I say many, not all) are the same people who have been raised to say yes from childhood and that invalidates that person's belief as it is not truly their own.
I was raised that way: a Christian from birth really. I was baptized without being asked (I was only a baby if I am not mistaken) and taken to church every week- something I just went with. It was around the time I was either 13 or 14 years old that I decided there wasn't this great God of all things as I was taught. I never really told my family, but coincidentally we started skipping church more and more often.
It was a good time after I had turned 15 that I met a boy who would change my life, and while I will not go into great detail for fear of irelavency, I will say that after a couple of months I ended up coming back to the Christian faith and I did so entirely by my own decision. He didn't even know I didn't believe in God at the time, he had no say in it, I am my own man and I chose this; I think I can say yes. =^_^=
I was raised that way: a Christian from birth really. I was baptized without being asked (I was only a baby if I am not mistaken) and taken to church every week- something I just went with. It was around the time I was either 13 or 14 years old that I decided there wasn't this great God of all things as I was taught. I never really told my family, but coincidentally we started skipping church more and more often.
It was a good time after I had turned 15 that I met a boy who would change my life, and while I will not go into great detail for fear of irelavency, I will say that after a couple of months I ended up coming back to the Christian faith and I did so entirely by my own decision. He didn't even know I didn't believe in God at the time, he had no say in it, I am my own man and I chose this; I think I can say yes. =^_^=
I find the reality of death very comforting. Nothing matters anymore when you ceise to exist.Richardplex said:
And when it comes to purpose in life, it's purpose is to give it one.Thats not a religious thing, if you got enough a little bit of self-esttem you know that your life matters and should lead to a goal of your choice. Thats all the purpose one needs.
No, I don't believe in spiritual beings or that we should care what they think of us.
I tend to be geared towards Satanism, Objectivism and Pragmatism.
I tend to be geared towards Satanism, Objectivism and Pragmatism.
I have faith that there is something greater than us. So... I do believe in a God.
What I do not believe is the unquestioned authority of the church because of two reasons:
1) Power corrupts. No man is immune to that.
2) History has shown us that many wars have been fought because some people did not think other people believed in what was correct. That has served as justification not only for war but also torture, inhumane experiments and even slavery. Do some basic research on the Middle Ages or people who are now considered to be great thinkers and people of science that lived in the Middle Ages.
What I do not believe is the unquestioned authority of the church because of two reasons:
1) Power corrupts. No man is immune to that.
2) History has shown us that many wars have been fought because some people did not think other people believed in what was correct. That has served as justification not only for war but also torture, inhumane experiments and even slavery. Do some basic research on the Middle Ages or people who are now considered to be great thinkers and people of science that lived in the Middle Ages.
No, im not religous. For the basic, often quoted reasons;
1) There is no proof of any god, except for in a bool
2) I dont want to talk to air and hope that my life will be better
3) I dont want to have to rely on something that i cant see, hear or feel.
4) Religon is full of Double negatives.
1) There is no proof of any god, except for in a bool
2) I dont want to talk to air and hope that my life will be better
3) I dont want to have to rely on something that i cant see, hear or feel.
4) Religon is full of Double negatives.
Agnostic, I just don't know. Objectively, I can't know. But I find it very implausible that there should be a personal emotional god like the Abrahamic ones. If I were to believe in a god, it would probably be a very distant and apathetic god, preferably just a force of sorts.
My view of death as well. And it isn't necessarily a religious thing, but it's easier. No need to constantly question that purpose. Faith isn't necessary but it's a lot easier. And for those who don't share our view of death, faith can help stop one fearing it.Fetzenfisch said:
That would be theist, but not religious. But agnostic would fit better than 'Yes' considering the question.Astoria said:
As I am not a 13th-century illiterate peasant ready to murder anyone who looks funny at my potatoes, no, I am not in need of a Church's "guidance"
