Did you change your religious views during your life?
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I was raised christian and was quite strong in my belief even considered going catholic at one point because my church wasn't strong enough for me. However due to certain circumstances i.e death of a loved one and all the crappiness that came with it, i lost my faith and am now atheist although my orthodox aunt still thinks i'm just going through a phase and will one day turn round and become christian again which i wont.
I'm an Atheist and have been since I was old enough to tell my pastor that he needed to get some and soon. (I was like 9 I wanna say). My bf on the other hand is Pagan, so it gets kinda weird when his other pagan buddies come over and start talking about stuff...I always input my two cents and get nasty looks in return.
Wikipedia to the rescue!Kiefer13 said:
"Deism is a religious and philosophical belief that a supreme being created the universe, and that this (and religious truth in general) can be determined using reason and observation of the natural world alone, without a need for either faith or organized religion. Deists tend to, but do not necessarily, reject the notion of divine interventions in human affairs, such as by miracles and revelations. "
So, yeah, good catch there Kiefer13.
OT: I was raised Roman Catholic. I went to a Roman Catholic school until grade 10, when they got rid of the Roman Catholic School board and it became secular, thank goodness.
I was baptized, had First Communion, and was Confirmed. My Confirmation was when I was about twelve or thirteen, and I did it for the money at that point.
At this point I pretty much go along with Deism, though I do believe there has been divine intervention from time to time. Whether it was intentional or not, well, damned if I know.
There's a lot more reform Jews, but even orthodox jews interpret the torah; although they often interpret more strictly than the literal translation. the restriction on eating milk with meet, for example, is based a commandment that litereally states "do not seethe a calf in its mother's milk". since people rarely seethe meat anymore, and milk and meat usually come from different breeds of cattle anyway, the tradition developed into not eating any meat with milk.Cakes said:
on top of that, there's also the fact that many practices and laws no longer apply since the destruction of the temple.
I grew up with the usual half-baked, naive protestant Christian view of the world most Swedes will have, until my teens, when the idiocy and ignorant jackasses belonging to it eventually ground any religious belief and left only a bitter taste. Now I'm a reluctant atheist, knowing nothing but betrayal from religion.
I never had faith in anything supernatural, but I was raised in Baptist household and community so as a child it was hard to reconcile what 95% (based on census data) believed and what I did. As got older gained confidence in how I felt and really thought about it and spent hours discussing it. I came to the conclusion of where I am now, an atheist.
Of course, I am always up for a well reasoned civil discussion on issues as I enjoy understanding my own views and others better on this.
Of course, I am always up for a well reasoned civil discussion on issues as I enjoy understanding my own views and others better on this.
oh man, i went through so many religious stages..i went from Catholic, to Methodist, Buddhist, Muslim, Presbyterian...I am now a comfortable Humanist with Taoist ideologies and some Bushido thrown in there.
