Did you change your religious views during your life?
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I think I have a cream for that.JRCB said:
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Although I respect All religious beliefs and personally interested by what it does to people (weather good or bad)I grew up in a catholic school and when I eventually entered middle school
and started learning about Religions many different influences on history my on morals slowly began to change and thought I should just start making my own views on life.
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(or was it AC/DC? I can't really remember...)
and started learning about Religions many different influences on history my on morals slowly began to change and thought I should just start making my own views on life.
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same thing happened to me except it was 4 years ago and I asked for some JourneyAWC Viper said:
(or was it AC/DC? I can't really remember...)
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I personally am an agnostic raised in a relaxed protestant family (You know, church only on Christmas/Easter). But I found myself questioning how we could know that any religion is better/more correct than another.
I have to sit through chapel each week at school (Uniting Church School) and while most people don't listen at all (most people at my school aren't christian) I still listen because there is still good advice given.
I personally see Religion as guidelines to live life by, and all have good intent. But it's just not for me.
I grew up Catholic, but then became Athiest in my early teens... then a friend introduced me to another religion, which I studied and experimented with. It gave me great insights about the workings of the universe. But I later decided that the religious aspects of this religion were .. well... just not for me, but the results I was receiving were contradicting half of the things I was being taught about this religion, in example about it's dieties. So for a while I stopped with the practices, and thought about how to go over them properly. Retrying something, in a different way, I got some positive results. Confirming some things about every religion, and denying alot of things about all of them... I've learned to put together the parts of each religion I've studied to find what I currently believe. That is to say, bits and pieces of every religion are true, while as the rest are all misunderstandings. If you look at all of the religions (even the lesser followed ones, and the ones that are no longer followed because the people died out) they all have things in common.
EDIT: Oh and once when I was in church when I was 7, It was my first time ever being at a church that sings, so when they completed the song, I started to clap. It was my natural reaction to a good performance, but everyone looked at me and someone said something about it. So I said "Why don't christians clap?" or something.
EDIT: Oh and once when I was in church when I was 7, It was my first time ever being at a church that sings, so when they completed the song, I started to clap. It was my natural reaction to a good performance, but everyone looked at me and someone said something about it. So I said "Why don't christians clap?" or something.
I've adopted a sort of personal religion. Kind of a mash-up of Catholic and Buddhist philosophies.
I grew (am still growing) up in an extremely relaxed (religiously) family where all kinds of religions were mentioned and discussed. Christianity was supposedly the "foundation" but the focus at home was more on eastern religions. I had never explicitly believed in a sentient god, but I'd always kind of hoped there was one, as I got older, I came to the conclusion that I didn't believe in a higher power.
I am a Roman Catholic right now, I haven't changed my ideas really yet, I'm still young. But I like a lot of other religions and I kind of want to be a Buddhist. I also like the idea of the Bahai Faith. I may change my mind at some point, but I will always believe in God.
I was baptized, but besides weddings my family never went to church so I wasn't raised very religiously. In high school I became Christian for about a year and then started seeing a lot of hypocrisy in the people around me so I just went back to being non-religious and not really caring and that's where I am now.
I tryed being religous, protestant christian, but then i relized how unbelivable religon is and how hypocritical you feel trying to abide by your religon's rules. You are probably going to do something bad but saying sorry just makes up for it, even if you do it again. Oh well everybody can have there thing, and it didn't really fit into my schedule, videogame Sunday not church.
Not meant to start a flame war you won't change my opinion and i don't want to change yours.
Edit: didn't read trough all the way, at first i didn't care about religon even tho everybody around me seemed christian my family never went to church tho, tried being religous now i just don't give a damn.
Not meant to start a flame war you won't change my opinion and i don't want to change yours.
Edit: didn't read trough all the way, at first i didn't care about religon even tho everybody around me seemed christian my family never went to church tho, tried being religous now i just don't give a damn.
Initially raised Catholic, until I was around 10 years old, when my parents found a New Thought church more in line with their beliefs.
On the other hand, I eventually realized that I don't really accept any of the metaphysical aspects of Christianity, and so I've been an agnostic for about eight years. And only just admitted it to my parents two months ago...
On the other hand, I eventually realized that I don't really accept any of the metaphysical aspects of Christianity, and so I've been an agnostic for about eight years. And only just admitted it to my parents two months ago...
Agnosticism, in case you didn't know the word for it.Supreme Unleaded said:
I myself was raised Christian, (Not a specific area. Just basic beliefs.) but just last year I started to feel a bit deist, and now I'm certainly deist. Though a tiny part of me, way in the back of my consciousness, still clings to that Christian upbringing.
Nah, I didn't even know religion existed until I was ten, by then, it could have no effect, so I always like to think of my beliefs as "nil".