2007-08-18, 17:51 | Link #23 | |
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I really tried to believe, but with so many things showing that God really doesn't exist and even if he did exist I wouldn't worship him, I just decided to drop it and not get bound to a religious belief that might tie me down. Ever since that I've found several flaws in the Bible and in Christian faith, only reinforcing and verifying my decision to distance myself from Christianity. |
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2007-08-18, 17:58 | Link #24 |
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I suppose I'd be an atheist. I certainly don't see any need for a creator god to explain the universe, and I personally very much doubt that there is such a thing, but as it's extremely difficult to prove a negative I'm always ready to acknowledge that there's a very slim possibilty I could be wrong.
I dislike rabid, dogmatic atheists just as much as I dislike rabid, dogmatic religious people. |
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Edit: The people that lost their lives never died in vein. Those who gave their lives to prayer open up the possibility to receive the graces of opportunity. When you pray, you may not receive your answer directly. You might receive it with an opportunity. Last edited by TakutoKun; 2007-08-18 at 19:26. |
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2007-08-18, 19:24 | Link #26 | |
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2007-08-18, 19:50 | Link #29 |
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If you read it on wikipedia then you should have learn a little about the religion.Wikipedia has a very complete definition of it.I can't give you a good explanation here since it's a little complicated and I'm a little lazy to do it.
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2007-08-18, 20:06 | Link #30 |
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I'm kind of a Buddhist... at first I just followed it because most of my surrounding people are such. But when I did a Buddhism research project for history class and read about a teaching called Salama Sutta that tells a person to trust his direct experience and believe something using his own judgment, I started to like it. You could probably say that I follow the religion for philosophical reason
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2007-08-18, 20:13 | Link #32 |
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I don't believe in anything. I suppose that's why I've been feeling quite down these last 20 years.
Seriously, I try to avoid all those -isms. They're just words putting people into separate boxes. That's why I don't consider myself an atheist. I'm sort of more of a nihilist, maybe. I usually say I have no religion (though I've been baptised as a catholic), like mr incest did.
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2007-08-18, 20:18 | Link #33 | |
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2007-08-18, 20:42 | Link #34 | |
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Birds of a feather flock together it seems. I don't have a religion. I'm agnostic, in the sense that I admit that I don't know if God exists or not. He may, he may not. There's no way for us to know for sure anyway. I prefer to assume that he does not.
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2007-08-19, 00:42 | Link #40 |
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I transcribed this by hand: Anne Rice's postscript from her novel Christ The Lord: Out Of Egypt, on how she found her way back to Catholicism after drifting away from it for much of her life. I found it fascinating - and I think definitely worth sharing as part of this discussion:
http://www.philotopia.com/anne.htm |
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