Whats your religious beliefs?
 

I know this is a VERY controversial topic among some people, but I'm just curious. Religiously, where do you stand? The reason I ask is because I've pretty much always been un-religious to a high degree. I had a long conversation with my cousin, who is very religious, tonight, and it just got me thinking a LOT.

There must be some higher force, but I dunno what that is yet. I do not mind those who are religious as long as they do not try to force their beliefs on me.

I was born into a non-practicing Methodist family.

But I've consider myself Atheist since I was in high school.
However, as I get older I think about the other religions and consider their teachings. I've read into a few other religions and not really any of them seem appealing.

I mean considering what I believe in, not in the religious manner, I'm surprised that I wouldn't even consider myself believing in a higher power.

Agnostic, I do not know and will likely never know if their is a higher power so I can't devote myself to the idea that one does/doesn't exhist.

I believe in god, period. That is it. I hate when people try to force religion on people honestly. Everything is just so skeptical to me. My mom is a huge church goer. She tried to push all this **** on me and it honestly pissed me off.

I hated thinking that if I did anything bad I would be damned or something retarded like that.

I mean seriously. You have premartial sex, get tattoo's, piercings, and all this other stuff done so you automatically go to hell? I think not, especially if you believe in god.

Everything just seems way too skeptical to me.

So I stand with my belief that there is a god. Yes, I do pray sometimes too.

There is a higher power, it's not me...enjoy my religion

yikes i could go on and on about this... but i'm not... there is a higher power.. to me it's not christ. and i think that christianity is a bunch of hooey. But i don't mock anyone if they believe in it...

I was raised a Jehovah's Witness, and studied a bit of Catholicism and Judaism(sp?). I suppose I would be considered a non-practicing agnostic.

In the end, I think the father of Communism had it right when he said 'opiate of the masses'. Frankly, I don't know what is out there/up there/down there, and I'm not overly concerned. I've decided to live life as best I can for the plain sake of doing so. I don't need the promise of reward, or the fear of punishment to cause me to behave in a certain way.

So people believe in god, I believe in me.

^ VERY well said! :thumbup: ^

Catholic. i belive in a higher power.. end.

I believe in GOD. but i dont believe in the church. never know which is corupt. And most of the time preachers contradict each other when reading the bible. so i dont really beliee in the bible either.

athiest here. like someone above said.. im a good person because i truly am... not because im afraid of getting sent to my room when i die.

that being said.. nothing wrong with religious folk.. just dont push it on me :)

im was raised under judiasm. but to me im more of a scientist when it ocmes to thinking. If you can't prove it to me then I have a hard time believing its true. So im not really sure if their is a higher force unless i see some proof.

That is exactly the same reason with me. Its just hard to believe in something with no proof of it. But faith is just that, believing without proof. Its just hard for me to do that.

I believe that there is a higher power. I believe that power is "God," and that there was a Jesus Christ. Raised Anglican, I still have those beliefs, just a bit less strictly than I used to, and than my family does. When it gets into all the religious issues like predestination, I throw my hands in the air.
I know that there is more to the world than what we see, and this is all nothing in comparision to the big picture... I just need to figure out what that is.

Here is my play on this:

I was raised to believe in a god (dad made me go to church as a kid for a while), but there was always something that irked me: To me there was nothing that allowed me to simply believe. I needed proof, but the problem is that religion doesn't really give you material proof: You trust things based on faith. I don't like leaving something to blind devotion. So right now, this is my mentality

There may be some higher power, there might not be. I have not seen proof which would make me believe either side. I am content without having to believe in a god, and I am content with being a good person without having to have the concept of heaven dangling in front of me as a "reward" of being good.

If you believe in a god, all good with me. Just don't force it on anyone. I forget the psychological term for it, but it has to deal with self realization and what one person must do in order for them to maintain sanity in their own world or how they percieve the world. If you want to believe in god because it gives you purpose or stability, be my guest.

I'm a science guy therefore I have no religious beliefs even though I went to catholic school for 10 years. I need facts not faith. The way I see it is if there is a god and he/she/it loves all his/hers/its children, then even if I don’t believe in him/her/it I still reserve my place beside/around wherever. I truly believe that religion is holding back the human race. If you take religion out of the picture so many problems would be solved. Example being the middle east. No "God" means no jihad. No "God" means Jerusalem is just a place on a map not some holy city to fight over. This topic is has to many twists and turn to type out but this is just a small sample on how i feel about religions

If you want to look at something from a truly objective standpoint, science and religion have nothing to do with each other.

Science is cosmic reason.

Religion is cosmic purpose.

Why can't they coincide peacefully?

True but those two will fight it out till the end of time.

Born: Roman Catholic
Currently: F**k religion