• Religious control of the masses
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Dear fellow face-punchers, I am curious as to how many of us have a religious faith in God (God - who ever it may be), or Gods - or Flying Spaghetti Monster for that matter. Please bros n sisters, let us be serious, unless you be trippin' hell'a on mushrooms!! If 'yes' dear folk of the facepunch , please care to explain which faith you follow & how you came to believe in your faith + what is the goal of your practice. I have a deep testimony I wish to share with you and I will in due time. I am deeply intrigued by faith, and I hope we to be share experience and great wonder with each other. See you on the other side of the rainbow, :smile:
Yeah, I'm pretty religious although I don't try to really convert people or anything. I pretty much just try to live a life like Jesus would've although a lot of the time I do a pretty shitty job at it. I was born into my faith, but I was not always really fully trusting in my beliefs until I actually learned more about various religions. [editline]13th February 2015[/editline] Oh and forgot to state, I'm a Catholic.
I believe in God, and his son Yahushua(or Jesus as the man-made name has titled him). As I see it through my eyes, the entire creation we live among is physically perfect in every way. It works in harmony and in sync perfectly with its self. Although it is the spirit within man that has corrupted and broken this perfect wonder that is our granted creation. Such as the evil and greed within man that has lead to 'fracking' (mining for shale gas) - Pumping the earth full of ghastly chemicals and allowing these poisonous chemicals to bleed into our ground waters and poison our fresh water springs, killing off vast areas of nature and once ancient forest lands leaving the lands barren, also leaving HUGE gaping caverns underground which will lead to earthquakes in the most unthought of places in 20years time, courtesy of the corrupt greedy spirit within man. How i came to this understanding is a story for another day , as I say , I have a controversial testimony that shook my soul to its very core, with a fear which felt as though my thread of life was cut and was cast into an outer darkness, i was banished to a dark place that i would never ever want to 'curse anyone to hell' ever again! Stay strong bros n sisters, lets us be at peace
Protecting the environment is pretty important to my religious beliefs too. This Earth is a gift and we shouldn't fuck it up.
I don't believe in God. I'm whatever that makes me.
Being Agnostic doesn't make you on the fence, I believe in a possible higher power but I dislike the concept of organized religion and specific teachings from God. I don't believe in any sort of judgement or what deeds you do in this life will affect what happens to you in the possible next.
I guess I can say I believe. Girlfriend believes, and has had the personal experiences to reaffirm her belief (And with what I've seen / know, it's practically enough for me to believe too) But it's more of the thing where I'll believe, but do it without a religion. I just take things as they come to me.
I make my own way so no I am not religious, but I find religion itself interesting, norse and greek gods especially.
Atheist since year 6 after I started questioning what Religion classes were teaching me in primary school, dropped out of it a year later because I thought it was nonsense But I respect whatever people believe, not my business to change or convert people
I'm a Christian. Other than that, I keep my faith fairly private. But I'll say that, I believe in a merciful God and peace is and ought to be the ultimate goal of every man and woman with him.
In all my years of existence, 'God' has never appeared to me like so many others claim. Even when I actively sought him out when I believed in a higher being. If there was a God, in my opinion, who cared, the world wouldn't be in the state it is today. That's why I am an agnostic. However, religion is the last thing I judge people on. I morally judge people on how they treat others and their actions.
Somewhere between on the fence and atheist. I am almost certain that the major religious ideas of God are false. I don't think we're that close to uncovering a mechanism that created existence. If there as a machine/organism that created the universe, I'm not sure that it would be able to control every tiny event in the universe. It may just be like a gardener doing his best to influence that growth of something he planted and may even be unaware of the entire universe. If there is an entity with any personality or views, it probably is very Darwinistic and probably wouldn't have morals in the same way that we do. Our sense of morality comes from the fact that we're a social species and our self-sacrifice was beneficial to the survival of our genetic groups. A godlike entity might have much more interest in experimenting with life, as oppose to wanting any particular outcome in any individual organism's life. That's how I think of it for the most part. On that note, it's really cool to discuss hypothetical mechanisms and entities that could exist beyond where our civilization has gone. Also, I've been Christian and I've been a non-theistic Buddhist. Both religions gave me a similar calm sense of communion and "light." When religious claim that they feel a "light" or an"energy," I know what they're talking about and I know how good it feels. But I believe any religious experiment, no matter how profound, almost certainly measured, and some already have.
I guess I'm technically an Atheist. I didn't reject religion just to be "cool" and "hip" and "progressive". I just saw all of the evidence that stacked up against the Bible and how most religions contradict each other and try to say that their own religions are the truth and just decided that there was really no way that that was true. Honestly, I wish there was a God, or an afterlife, because I'm really scared of death. We really have no clue what it's like to die, and that's what scares me the most. I'm usually pretty quiet about my lack of religion. I don't get in peoples' faces about it, I think we should all be tolerant of other people, as long as they are tolerant of others as well.
[QUOTE=Chai;47136942]I believe in God, and his son Yahushua(or Jesus as the man-made name has titled him). As I see it through my eyes, the entire creation we live among is physically perfect in every way. It works in harmony and in sync perfectly with its self. Although it is the spirit within man that has corrupted and broken this perfect wonder that is our granted creation. Such as the evil and greed within man that has lead to 'fracking' (mining for shale gas) - Pumping the earth full of ghastly chemicals and allowing these poisonous chemicals to bleed into our ground waters and poison our fresh water springs, killing off vast areas of nature and once ancient forest lands leaving the lands barren, also leaving HUGE gaping caverns underground which will lead to earthquakes in the most unthought of places in 20years time, courtesy of the corrupt greedy spirit within man. How i came to this understanding is a story for another day , as I say , I have a controversial testimony that shook my soul to its very core, with a fear which felt as though my thread of life was cut and was cast into an outer darkness, i was banished to a dark place that i would never ever want to 'curse anyone to hell' ever again! Stay strong bros n sisters, lets us be at peace[/QUOTE] I never understood how someone could be religious and [I]not[/I] be an environmentalist. Even if it's not a gift from something beyond our comprehension, it's obviously a very mechanically complex thing that we've had difficulty managing and probably will until our technology hits something similar to Star Trek tier.
About as atheist as it gets over here. No God, karma, mysticism, spirituality, nothin'. We are all here by Darwinistic accident and there is no objective point or purpose to life. It's just what you make of it.
I believe in God and the afterlife. I also love reading about other culture's take on it. The secret is to not just limit yourself to one religion but read up on all of them. They all have their stories that have a unique blend of being [I]inspiring[/I] and [I]fucked up[/I] But most of all I follow Wheaton's law. "Don't be a dick"
Atheist as can be here. i was raised Christian and although i tried my best to keep believing as i grew up, on account of being petrified of dying, i just couldn't keep it up. the world i see around me just isn't compatible with any magic/ghosts/gods/religions imo.
my faith is hard to describe for a variety of reasons. i don't believe in the biblical god or the qu'ran's god or the torah's god. i don't believe in ghosts or spirits or souls. i don't believe there is life after death, a heaven or hell or what have you. i don't believe in reincarnation, i don't believe in any magical or supernatural things that can't be explained scientifically. my beliefs are deeply rooted in science and are what pushed me toward medicine. i DO believe in people, either good or bad, being the force that shapes the world. it's fairly evident that humans are almost entirely responsible for the changes in global temperatures, pollution of virtually every body of water, extinction of multiple species of animals, and murder and violence between humans. the way i see it, all we have is one another, our fellow human beings. a lot of people say stuff like "i wish religion never happened bla bla thanks religion for the dark ages" but we do owe some of our advancement of civilization to religion. but we've outgrown religion as a species. we don't need religion in our daily lives. we as a species are in danger of condemning ourselves to a polluted wasteland of a planet, caused by our own actions. and even if we manage to colonise new planets, it's pretty obvious what we'll do to those planets after a while of being there. so i believe in people. they're mostly bad, but it's all i've got!
Agnostic - I don't deny that god [I]could[/I] exist, but I find it pretty unlikely. I also like to believe there's some kind of an afterlife. People who say religion has held the human race back make me laugh.
I am a homosexual. is there an option for that?
no because this is a religious thread not a sexuality thread
I've always seen myself as Atheist, but I'm actually a very religious person, except that my god isn't some "omnipotent, omniscient being" but rather Justice and Coherence.
Catholic, but who cares. As long as it ain't Scientology I really have no qualms over what people believe.
I figured there would be a fair number of atheists here, but I'm surprised the poll is this lopsided, even with only 100 responses. Do video games make you stop believing in God or something?
All hail sultan Azathoth the blind idiot god [editline]16th February 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=J!NX;47137739]I am a homosexual. is there an option for that?[/QUOTE] What is the object of worship of a follower of homosexualism?
I don't give a rat's ass I ain't even an atheist or agnostic, I'm just nothing
I don't want to be the r/atheism guy in here, but to tell the truth agonsticism and atheism aren't mutually exclusive. You can be an agnostic atheist, an agnostic deist/theist etc. [quote]Agnosticism is the view that the truth values of certain claims – especially metaphysical and religious claims such as whether or not God, the divine or the supernatural exist – are unknown and perhaps unknowable.[/quote] [editline]16th February 2015[/editline] from wiki [editline]16th February 2015[/editline] any reasonable person would be agnostic. and to those who say "I don't believe but I'm not an atheist", you actually are an atheist.
i pronounced myself a proud atheist at 14 then later i learned to shut the fuck up about it because nobody cared about what a middle schooler was regurgitating from online anti-theist circlejerks i follow no faith or religion now. though i was baptized Episcopalian, i believe one should come to join a faith only once they approach it and accept it on their own will. i find the stories of the Old Testament fascinating as they relate to archaeology and history--for example, did you know that the story of the Great Flood is corroborated by a glacial movement that un-dammed a river which used to flow into the Black Sea, causing immense flooding when the sea level rose up on its former banks, destroying the shoreline society where the Israelite slaves lived?
I'm an apatheist. I don't really care if there is some deity. Religion itself is interesting however. All that history, it's glorious.
God loves all, as God is love but we have all been separated from him due to our own selfish ways, of sin and desires from within..
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