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Post by tidesnowrise on Mar 25, 2011 8:31:09 GMT -5
Let's get it started.
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Post by biketuff on Mar 25, 2011 9:54:01 GMT -5
well fuck. changed my beliefs.
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Post by maxxxg on Mar 25, 2011 14:58:43 GMT -5
Does He touch dicks too?
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Post by jackinicole on Mar 26, 2011 14:29:14 GMT -5
Welp.
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Post by albertis on Mar 29, 2011 9:21:22 GMT -5
May as well start the serious discussion. I was raised Catholic (Hispanic kids all are) but I left the church pretty young. I was 12 and one of my sixth grade teachers unleashed a freethinker inside me. By that I don't mean that religious people aren't free thinkers. It's just that the free thinker in me wasn't Christian or any other religion. I spent a few years as your stereotypically angry atheist, constantly trying to offend Christians my heavily Christian hometown. When I reached high school, I started to think about my argument for atheism. I realized I had none. If I claimed no one could definitively support the claim that there is a God, how could I definitively support a claim that there isn't one? Since then I've been agnostic and pretty much irreligious. I search for meaning not extrinsically or in a God, but within myself. I create my own meaning.
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Post by jackinicole on Mar 30, 2011 13:22:23 GMT -5
Straight up, thats probably the best explanation Ive heard fpr religious beliefs.
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Post by biketuff on Mar 30, 2011 13:51:43 GMT -5
I search for meaning not extrinsically or in a God, but within myself. I create my own meaning. that sounds like buddhism, but it's whatever you what it to be.
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Post by biketuff on Mar 30, 2011 16:55:47 GMT -5
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Post by pseudodivisions on Mar 30, 2011 17:09:56 GMT -5
Well let's see. My dad was raised in a large Irish Catholic family. (Which I want to add a HUH? to because my grandmother converted from Judaism to Irish Catholicism in order to marry my grandfather. Massive mindfuck to this day.) My mom wasn't raised anything.
So my parents never brought me up in any sort of religious environment. Basically, I was told to be kind and to treat everything and everyone with respect. This didn't necessarily work out. I moved from quite a diverse small city in North Jersey to Central PA when I was 10. It's a predominantly Christian area. But I remember it was a big topic in 5th grade to go to church. I didn't make many friends in school because I "didn't believe in God". One of the only friends I made gave me a Bible for my birthday and told me I was going to hell because I didn't believe in Jesus Christ.
Mind you, I was 10 and could care less about that. I cared more about this super cute boy Alec.
ANYWAY. Jump to when I was about 14 years old. My dad and I went on this sort of quest to find a religious/spiritual community. So after many different places, we came to find a little Unitarian Universalist congregation. We enjoyed the fact that the focus was not on Jesus or God, but on building community and relations with people around us, not people in the sky. And I also really enjoyed that UU pulled many morals and spiritual ideas from various religious texts. One week we'd be looking at the Old Testament, the other the Qu'ran, the next The Vedas. Come Easter, there would be a service on not Jesus, but the rebirth of the earth and the coming of light, and we would discuss the Neopaganism related to it.
I dunno. That's my two bits on religion. I found what's right for me, Unitarian Universalism. They kind of won me over with their first principle. "The inherent worth and dignity of every person."
OKAY. OFF MY SOAPBOX.
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Post by facingandbacking on Mar 30, 2011 19:44:18 GMT -5
I worship Clayton.
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Post by biketuff on Mar 30, 2011 20:01:14 GMT -5
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Post by regainingcontrol on Mar 30, 2011 20:27:28 GMT -5
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Post by facingandbacking on Mar 30, 2011 21:20:58 GMT -5
Shit, did I say Clayton? I meant Satan. Sorry for the miscommunication.
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Post by regainingcontrol on Mar 30, 2011 21:23:13 GMT -5
Shit, did I say Clayton? I meant Satan. Sorry for the miscommunication. Clayton=Satan
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Post by burtonharold on Mar 31, 2011 14:28:49 GMT -5
THERE IS NO GOD! \m/
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