Are you religious?

Are you religious?

  • Yes, very, i attend services frequently.

    Votes: 24 25.8%
  • Yes, somwhat, i somtimes attend services.

    Votes: 8 8.6%
  • Yes, but im more spiritual than religious

    Votes: 17 18.3%
  • Im athiest or agnostic.

    Votes: 34 36.6%
  • Other

    Votes: 10 10.8%

  • Total voters
    93

agnslz

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Just barely. I grew up Catholic and still consider myself so, but I hardly ever go to church anymore and I disagree so much with most of what comes out of the Vatican. Still, it will always be a part of who I am and though I'm not an active Catholic, I'll always be one in my heart and I pray God will have my soul when I die.
 

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I am not the least bit religious.
One could argue about whether I am spiritual.
I would finally say no ... whatever word fits, it's not quite that one.
I believe in one consciousness, but our separation from that consciousness is caused by our delineation of separate selves.
But to attribute, well, attributes to ourselves ... even the attribute 'spiritual' ... increases that delineation and separation.
Besides that, you will never tease out a really useful meaning from the word 'spiritual.'
This happens to be a Buddhist view, but more fundamentally a mystical view that is shared widely and can't, no more than any other mystical view, be defended or demonstrated.
 

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yeh i am, catholic. i find it reassuring and comforting to have religion to support me. but that said, i find that i disagree a lot with the attitudes of the church, which makes it a bit difficult for me sometimes.
 

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I think you mean just the galaxies. There are multiple galaxies (Over one hundred billion to be more precise.) but one universe.
DO not presume to know what I meant. I most definitely believe in multiple universes.

Let me really rattle your brain cells--There are planets and other celestial items and there are galaxies and there are universes after which the universes are in an even larger container which in turn is somehow and miraculously not only holding everything but is being held by everything which is in it. These are my beliefs--you do not have to agree with them, just know that they are mine.
 

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I don't think religion is the problem. I think people acting irrationally is the problem.

Religion most certainly is the problem. Religion teaches us from an early age to suspend our disbelief in away no Hollywood thriller ever could. It provides us an easy excuse to discount fact that would be unacceptable in any other form of rational argument.

Without [religion] you’d have good people doing good things, and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion.
-- Steven Weinberg
 

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To be spiritual is to seek the truth
To be religious is to adopt a path you believe will lead to the truth
The truth simply is
 

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I don't think religion is the problem. I think people acting irrationally is the problem.

People's irrational behaviour is a constant, religion is simply a variable in Dong's human collective human behavior effect equation. *

Collective Human Behaviour Effect= (People + factors) * irrationality

Where irrationally is a constant, religion (for instance) is a factor which can be positive, zero or negative.

Thus. if religion is a negative factor (e.g. bigotry) - for a constant irrationally the more people, the worse the overall result and vice versa.



* Yes, I just made it up. I have some time on my hands today, what can I say.:rolleyes:
 

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Up until approximately two years ago, my label would have been born-again christian. My attendance at church included twice on Sunday, leading women's bible study on Tuesday mornings, attending midweek study on Wednesday evening and always something to do church wise on Saturday. I was also involved in the nursery and other ministries that reached out to those in need. Never a day went by without me reading scripture each morning and likely in the evening as well. I shunned the secular music, because I only wanted music that glorified God to be known to myself.

But due to some very personal reasons, that it is probably not appropriate to discuss on a public board, I left the church. Lets just say I left very disillusioned with what was being said and what was being done. It was and can still be difficult as church was so much a part of my identity.

I still believe in God and follow the teachings of Christ, I just don't mix it up with a man standing behind a pulpit.

Great topic. Do we talk politics toos?
 

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I just want to see how many people are or are not religious. Just out of curiosity.

Personally im athiest. What about you guys? Anybody out there a unusual religion that would be interesting to hear about?

I am a Buddhist. But I take Buddhism as a philosophy and the guidence of my life rather than my religion. I just follow the basic five principles of Buddhism. That's it.
 

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Well I should have worded that differently, we do not know for sure if there is or is not other universes because there is reason to believe there is and reason to believe there isn't but as far as we know now we cannot say that there definately are other universes. Of course that is what I have read on websites made by people who are professionals in fields that deal with this.
 

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DO not presume to know what I meant. I most definitely believe in multiple universes.

Let me really rattle your brain cells--There are planets and other celestial items and there are galaxies and there are universes after which the universes are in an even larger container which in turn is somehow and miraculously not only holding everything but is being held by everything which is in it. These are my beliefs--you do not have to agree with them, just know that they are mine.

I just wanted to point that out because the way you said it seemed like you were saying it was a fact not a belief. I said I thought you meant I didn't say I knew what you meant.