What's your religion? - Page 13

IlyaK1986 · 09-17-2008, 04:08 AM

Would it suffice to say that I believe in me?

OneWithSoul · 09-27-2008, 12:59 AM

My religion is my spirit. No one I have ever met expresses my views, but it's not a social experience, it's a spiritual experience.

what do I believe? Well..yes I do believe in one superior being. One overall God that exists not only in heaven and earth, but in our souls too..I believe in Jesus..and Muhammad...and Lao-tse...and the Buddha...and Shiva..whatever prophet they may be..from whatever religion it may be..EVERY RELIGION BASICALLY ENFORCES THE SAME OVERALL THEME. So..I guess I'm Buddhist/Hindu/Daoist/Christian/Juddist/Islam/Pagean..etc. but overtop all of these views, I am highly spiritual, I believe in one true God who is above everything, larger then the universe, yet small enough to fit blissfully into our heart.

Peguy · 09-27-2008, 01:21 AM

I'm a traditional Catholic.

Antisocial one · 10-04-2008, 11:32 AM

Atheist.(scientific)

In the US people would probaly see me as militant atheist.

Cimarron · 10-04-2008, 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Antisocial one

Atheist.(scientific)

In the US people would probaly see me as militant atheist.

Militancy is judged by how much you push your atheism on others, or maybe by how hard you bite back when someone "attacks" your atheism. If you just let people believe what they want to believe, and if you don't get disproportionately hostile to criticism, odds are that you won't be considered atheist.

Maybe we could call you a "devout" atheist?

Antisocial one · 10-04-2008, 12:07 PM

Are you sure that just "devout" will do?

V Profane · 10-04-2008, 01:40 PM

I have no religion, I'm an atheist.

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Originally Posted by Cimarron

Militancy is judged by how much you push your atheism on others, or maybe by how hard you bite back when someone "attacks" your atheism.

Seems to me the epithet 'militant atheist' is thrown at anyone who rejects religion, embraces rationality, and upholds secularity.

Bufo · 10-04-2008, 02:21 PM

Muslim. Also agnostic, in the sense that I don't think the existence or nonexistence of God can be proved objectively.

IlyaK1986 · 10-04-2008, 02:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cimarron

Militancy is judged by how much you push your atheism on others, or maybe by how hard you bite back when someone "attacks" your atheism. If you just let people believe what they want to believe, and if you don't get disproportionately hostile to criticism, odds are that you won't be considered atheist.

Maybe we could call you a "devout" atheist?

No, atheist is fine. Agnostic is someone that doesn't believe in god but keeps an open mind about it. An atheist has concluded for himself that indeed there is no god and nothing you say or do will convince him otherwise.

Peguy · 10-04-2008, 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by V Profane

Seems to me the epithet 'militant atheist' is thrown at anyone who rejects religion, embraces rationalism, and upholds secularism.

Corrected. There's nothing about contrary to religion in rationality and secularity. If that really so; then a shitload of religious people would be classified as almost 'militant atheists': St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Anslem, Jacques Maritain, Pope Benedict XVI, and plenty plenty others.

09-27-2008, 12:59 AM	#122 (permalink)
OneWithSoul Infernite! Join Date: Aug 2008 Type: ENFP Location: Potsdam, NY Posts: 1,466	My religion is my spirit. No one I have ever met expresses my views, but it's not a social experience, it's a spiritual experience. what do I believe? Well..yes I do believe in one superior being. One overall God that exists not only in heaven and earth, but in our souls too..I believe in Jesus..and Muhammad...and Lao-tse...and the Buddha...and Shiva..whatever prophet they may be..from whatever religion it may be..EVERY RELIGION BASICALLY ENFORCES THE SAME OVERALL THEME. So..I guess I'm Buddhist/Hindu/Daoist/Christian/Juddist/Islam/Pagean..etc. but overtop all of these views, I am highly spiritual, I believe in one true God who is above everything, larger then the universe, yet small enough to fit blissfully into our heart. __________________ Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?

09-27-2008, 01:21 AM	#123 (permalink)
Peguy Tortured Soul Join Date: May 2008 Type: INFJ Location: USA Posts: 3,345	I'm a traditional Catholic. __________________ "Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man." — Fyodor Dostoevsky INFJ 4w5

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Bufo Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Type: onto Posts: 122	Muslim. Also agnostic, in the sense that I don't think the existence or nonexistence of God can be proved objectively.