Did you change your religious views during your life?
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I ignore the Church. I know it is corrupt in a lot of parts. My main source of my disdain for religion comes from the texts they study and believe in.Nibbles said:
Every single religion is wrong. They all have bits and pieces that prove they are factually wrong. And speaking from my knowledge of the bible and koran: the people and gods they worship are horrible monsters. Genocide, sacrifice, torture, racial and sexual hate, homophobia and an array of ridiculous rules (read up on Deuteronomy, anyone who works on Sunday should be put to death).
The other thing I have come to hate about religion is those who pick and choose their beliefs based on what they feel is right. That is ridiculous. If god commanded it and you believe in god you HAVE to obey. You cannot defy him or you will punished. If you find objectionable material in the texts you should forget about that god. And this is all before you come to the lack of evidence part. I can reject and argue against religion simply based on the morality of the figures in the religious texts.
You cannot pick and choose your beliefs, that is intellectually dishonest. Religion just doesn't care about what is true, just what makes you feel good. So dishonest...
If you took the Bible, you could delete SO much stuff from it and end up having Christianity in the end. Keep the stuff with Jesus, and there you go. That's what is used mostly anyways, so why have a genocidal God that promotes Westboro Baptist Church to continue existing? People do pick and choose when they should just delete all the stuff that is not even Christian. You don't need a text to define your religion; many have gotten by without them. Plus, the Bible has been hilariously edited SO much. Want to control the populace? Add a new 'scripture' or alter some words or yell about how Black people are Satanic because light is associated with God.spinFX said:
Anyways, I agree with you, cause you don't even need a Bible to have a religion.
That's it though, you can't edit the "word of god". You can't ignore what god did in the old testament and parts of the new. It is just dishonest. It'd be like ignoring all the bad things Hitler did and concentrating on the good things (he must have done something good... maybe he built a road!).Nibbles said:
Just on your last sentence I want to say this: I don't need a religion to have morality. My morality is often better than even the moderately religious, such as those who oppose gay rights, pro choice, stem cell research, evolution etc. I am interested in the truth, not destroying it which I think is the worst thing that religion does (look at what Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort are about to do with the 'Origin of Species').
I was raised Christian, but over time realized I had been brainwashed by an evil cult of face-hugging aliens who feed off of human misery. I became enlightened and an Atheist, and I've been verbally flogging people of faith ever since! After all, I'm so much smarter and wiser than everybody else because I had that one term of Psychology in my first term of college. When anybody disagrees with me, I love labeling them ignorant morons and personally attacking them and everything to do with their faith!
Not. But this is how topics like this are starting to sound to me. I'm tired of seeing posts which look uncomfortably similar to my example popping up in great numbers.
Anyway, I was raised Christian and as I've matured, my beliefs have matured as well. But I'm still Christian. It was and is my choice to make and nobody else's. And I'm continuing to make it. I'm not brainwashed, not stupid, not ignorant and yes, I DID actually read the Bible. Imagine that.
Not. But this is how topics like this are starting to sound to me. I'm tired of seeing posts which look uncomfortably similar to my example popping up in great numbers.
Anyway, I was raised Christian and as I've matured, my beliefs have matured as well. But I'm still Christian. It was and is my choice to make and nobody else's. And I'm continuing to make it. I'm not brainwashed, not stupid, not ignorant and yes, I DID actually read the Bible. Imagine that.
I've always sort of hovered between agnostic and atheist, always with a fairly strong inclination to atheist as I often find the concept of some omnipotent being making everything to be a tad absurd. That, and I've always been more comforted by the idea that man forges his own destiny and doesn't need the guidance of some sort of deity. But you know what? I don't have all the answers, in the end I'm just another human being looking to survive, who am I to say that there is or is not a god or gods that rules over the universe?
Raised Catholic -> derived into an atheist with some offshoot Christian value.
My favorite part in the Bible is Sodom and Gomorrah. Fucking hilarious.
But anyway, I'm a deviated Buddhist with a self-sense of Nirvana.
I believe the loss of formality is the first step into true belief. That way you aren't told what to believe in, but you can see what's right and wrong before your own eyes.
My favorite part in the Bible is Sodom and Gomorrah. Fucking hilarious.
But anyway, I'm a deviated Buddhist with a self-sense of Nirvana.
I believe the loss of formality is the first step into true belief. That way you aren't told what to believe in, but you can see what's right and wrong before your own eyes.
That might be wrong. If there are multiple parallel universes that reflect different paths we could've chosen, doesn't that mean we are in a set universe? It may mean that even though we can't see it, our ignorance fools us from looking into the almost pre-written fabric of our possibility and we are actually in a universe that has a future dead set already. If string theory is correct and all matter is just a harmony-like fabric of possibility then "your life is at your own hand" is wrong.Dancingman said:
Edward Witten's M-Theory: total 11th dimension insanity that makes mathematical sense. Just don't hope the HLC or Fermilab finds any gravitons, or life as we know it means that we live in something unmoving and unchanging.
I wasn't really raised as christian, my family is quite atheistic. Yet, I sort of grew into it through somekind of strange coincidence. I believed for quite a while. Then my faith started dwindling in direct proportion to my grades in Science. As I got more and more interested in the universe and chemistry in general, I abandoned all faith.
And people dying around me despite vigorous prayers also had something to do with it. Now I wish I had spent more time with them instead of trying to save them.
And people dying around me despite vigorous prayers also had something to do with it. Now I wish I had spent more time with them instead of trying to save them.
As far back as I can remember, I've had my own religion.
So, that hasn't changed...
But compared to my family, I am different, yes.
My mother is agnostic, same with father and older brother.
Sister is Buddhist, but isn't exactly a "strong" believer. Only on occassion
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So, that hasn't changed...
But compared to my family, I am different, yes.
My mother is agnostic, same with father and older brother.
Sister is Buddhist, but isn't exactly a "strong" believer. Only on occassion
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I went from, Atheist, Evolution, Slightly believing in god, then to evolution, then to The Big Bang Theory+Evolution, Atheist and then finally, Norse Mythology. Because believing in a guy with a mystical bad-ass hammer, that controls thunder, and what the ban-hammer is based off of, is totally kick ass.
Which is now.
Which is now.