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Flipper
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Topic: What Religion are You? Posted: 23-Nov-2008 at 03:03 |
I'm no specific religion with a label. I'm not an atheist but i don't think any of the main religions really represent me nor do i need one to communicate with a god. I would probably stick with Plato if i lived in another time.
Or maybe i should say i'm more into mother earth, Gaia, Gameter, Cybele, Yemaya and the rest of the names that were given to the force surrounding us.
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edgewaters
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Posted: 23-Nov-2008 at 06:11 |
I'm just an animist, and not a practicing one. It just feels nice to call my car a "she". All the religion anyone needs, right there. If you need to be religious, all you need is to be able to anthropomorphize the physical world around you and attribute intent and consciousness to it. Everything else that the major religions added on, including their superspirits (deities), theology and all that - its not necessary, its just there to enslave minds. Of course, most people don't really understand their religion and actually are animists without realizing it. Take Christianity. Most Christians think God inhabits all matter and energy, they go to heaven when they die, and being good matters. Wrong, wrong, and wrong, according to Christianity. God is a person with a physical form - the notion of an animative, creative principle is Greco-Roman in origin and got attached to Christianity later on. The dead never go to heaven ... they rise bodily from the grave and, if they are lucky, get to live in New Jerusalem (which is city that floats down out of the sky and lands on earth). And good works are encouraged, but in the final verdict, don't matter even a little - all that matters is belief in Christ (which, according to the bible, is predestined! Free will has practically no biblical support except one ambiguous passage, but there are dozens supporting predestination). Crazy stuff!
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Afghanan
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Posted: 26-Nov-2008 at 08:46 |
This topic so....religulous.
Can we use that word now?
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nova roma
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Posted: 27-Nov-2008 at 22:04 |
Agnostic, raised Catholic.
I still have some faith, in what I'm not sure.
I guess you could say I'm former christian who has made some sense out of secular humanism.
Edited by nova roma - 27-Nov-2008 at 22:07
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red clay
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Posted: 27-Nov-2008 at 23:20 |
Pastafarian.
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Siege Tower
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Posted: 24-Mar-2009 at 00:08 |
Fundamentalist Pastafarian. In the name of Pasta, the Meatballs, and the Holy Sauce we trust. we follow only holy words reveal by FSM to our prophet Bobby Henderson may he rest in pasta. RAmen.
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King John
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Posted: 24-Mar-2009 at 02:13 |
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Dolphin
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Posted: 24-Mar-2009 at 13:34 |
Agnostic of Catholic moulding. And by moulding I mean the creation of a profound disillusionment with religion that is going to be pretty hard to shake.
Someone who doesn't care, in my experience, is anybody who believes in something (whether it be God, Gods, or nothing) but hasn't a clue about what they believe in. Like a Catholic because he was born so, or an Atheist because he doesn't bother to think about it.
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Donasin
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Posted: 24-Mar-2009 at 17:09 |
Deist with heavy Christian and Buddhist leanings.
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Afghanan
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Posted: 24-Mar-2009 at 17:50 |
Originally posted by Siege Tower
Fundamentalist Pastafarian. In the name of Pasta, the Meatballs, and the Holy Sauce we trust. we follow only holy words reveal by FSM to our prophet Bobby Henderson may he rest in pasta. RAmen. |
Ramen.
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Jallaludin Akbar
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Posted: 24-Mar-2009 at 21:16 |
Im an agnostic who was raised Hindu...although i still believe in certain aspects of Hinduism.
But I was really into Pastafarianism for a while
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Posted: 25-Mar-2009 at 01:43 |
Protestant who was raised a Methodist, but now consider myself just a Christian belonging to no particular denomination.
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Posted: 26-Mar-2009 at 20:17 |
Deist
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eaglecap
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Posted: 02-Apr-2009 at 19:43 |
I was brought up Lutheran and some Greek Orthodox and attended a Baptist elementry school but now I accept any belief as long as they follow the godlen rule and respect other beliefs as equal in society. I also recognize the Christian roots of my nations but I am a strong believer in freedom of religion or no religion; as long as you respect other views, right to religion, and live in peace.
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