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Your religious beliefs

What religious beliefs do you have?


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Other: Non-practicing

But I believe in higher beings, not just one because, no offense to men, I don't believe one man could have created this all.
 
Christian: Protestant.

My denomination is "Evangelical Free". Similar to Baptist, but not quite. And as the name implies, it's "evangelical".
 
Other. None. Atheist.

Jews don't count, eh?

I'm a Roman Catholic. I don't practice my faith anymore, so really I'm an atheist Catholic. Or a Catholic atheist. It depends on my mood.

I sometimes consider myself a catholic atheist. I don't believe in God, but I am still afraid of her anyway.:shifty:

Clearly I should be doing more converting.

What are the advantages to being Hindu? Do I have to do anything like give up bacon or put a sheet over my girlfriend to have sex with her? And what is the retirement plan like?:)
 
Clearly I should be doing more converting.
Indeed. I mean, gods with elephant heads. Blue dudes. Giant cobras. You can't get more awesome than that.

Clearly I should be doing more converting.
And what is the retirement plan like?:)
Dissolution of the self in the eternal bliss of the cosmic consciousness, or another round at the carousel. That's pretty rad, compared with playing a lyre on some cloud.
 
I voted 'none'.
Because you didn't have the Bill and Ted's 'Just be most excellent to each other'.
Although not strictly being a religion, it sums up my outlook on life.
 
I usually tick the CofE box on any official form, but more accurate would be "agnostic but vaguely benignly spiritual". Which, come to think of it, pretty much IS the Church of England...
 
I call it informed Christianity. I believe in the Bible, and most things God told people to do; but not the things that the Church says, which often contradicts science or even plain common sense. Sperm are not humans, therefore, I say birth control is not murder, for example.
 
Christian, Methodist.

I also spent time in the Christian Reformed Church, during a time when my family couldn't find a welcoming church at home and the only place we felt comfortable was my grandparents' church. I have also found that my thinking and my faith have been deeply influenced by Russian Orthodoxy through the writing of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn, and other Russian authors.
 
Christian: Catholic.

I was raised as a Southern Baptist until I was about six years old, as that was what my dad was raised as. He's not a very religious man, and only calls himself a Baptist because that's what he was raised as. And really the only reason I was raised Baptist was because the local Baptist church was the only one in the area at the time. :p Then my family moved to a larger city and we began attending a United Methodist church, which is what my mom was raised as. She, like my dad, isn't very religious and we only attended that church because it was my mom that made us go, usually only on Easter and Christmas.

Then, when I was in college, I converted to Roman Catholicism. Virtually all of my friends from grade school through college were Catholic, so I got a good view of the Church.

Some people up-thread said they find traditionalist ways of worship to be boring. Well, I'm the exact opposite. That's exactly why I find the Catholic Church so appealing. The regimented structure of the service is really inspiring, IMO. I never really felt God's presence in a Protestant service (and I've been to quite a few besides Baptist and Methodist - Church of Christ, Disciples of Christ, Church of the Nazarene, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, etc.). But I do feel a sense of "other-worldliness" in a Catholic service.

Now, that being said. There are a lot of things I disagree with the Church on. I many ways, I'm a liberal Catholic - in that I'm a classically-liberal libertarian and supporter of the free market, which are things the Church isn't very comfortable with.

Also, as others have said, I think the most important thing is that denominations aren't that important. If something works for you, I say more power to you. If you're comfortable and happy being a Catholic, so be it. If you're comfortable and happy being a Protestant, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, atheist, or whatever, so be it.
 
I have an unusual belief system. I'm Christian In the sense that I believe that "lord baby Jesus" was a real man. I believe he was enveloped with the holy spirit. I don't know where I stand with emaculate conception. I also believe each major religious figure such as Bhuda, Moses, Muhamud, Jesus and so on, were all prophets of "God". They were put there for each culture at certain times because that was what that culture needed at the time. I believe all of the religions of the universe are traced back to one "God". I believe god and nature are one in the same. Nature is god, it creates, destroys and controls the universe, it is the universe. I believe it is more like the force rather a god, a man. God has no form. I believe in evolution, but I also believe that the bible's story of creation coencides with evolution. That is not to say I think the world is only 6000 years old, I think man screwed that up.

I believe in destiny, but yet I believe in free will, as in we have several paths to the same destiny, but we also have free will to change that destiny or not follow that destiny. I don't believe in Christianity as a religion, but as an extension of Judaism. I choose to follow the teachings of Jesus, but I think it doesen't really matter which philosphy you follow because there are many paths to enlightenment/heaven/nirvana. I also like the teachings of Bhudha. I don't believe in denominations. I don't woship anywhere. I am not a strict religious man. I don't practice my beliefs and in reality, I'm pretty much a big time sinner. I wish I could be more Zen, but this world is too fucked up. Those are my beliefs, I believe in them very strongly, but don't practice them.
 
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