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Post by AstralFire on Jul 15, 2005 15:50:49 GMT -5
Self-Explanatory.
I myself am a Protestant Christian, practicing.
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Post by Oatway on Jul 15, 2005 17:04:49 GMT -5
Athiest. I haven't ever had a religious experience, nor any reason to believe in any religion. Should my experiences change, I shall change accordingly.
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Post by Zuki on Jul 16, 2005 13:38:12 GMT -5
oh, Drat! I was going to cast votes for Catholic, Agnostic, and Pagan. But it only lets you vote once.
Those three put together making something roughly approximating my believes.
I'm very open-minded--I think that there are a lot of different ways to get to "the good place" in the afterlife, whatever exactly it's like. So if your religion works for you, you enjoy practicing it, and you're not engaging in those sorts of behaviors that are agreed to be bad by the spiritual and atheist alike (mass murder, repression, subjugation of a particular set of society, etc,) then I"m good.
I'm not very pagan at all, actually. But I think it can be interesting stuff to read about. I'd considered practicing wicca for a while (a rather short while), but actually ending up deciding that I didn't want to make the commitment, and seriously? What'sthe point of converting if you won't make a commitment?
There's a lot of fun metaphysical stuff out there, just the same. But I'm nowhere near sorting out what's "true" and what's "not." It seems like everything's true, depending on who you read, yanno? I do believe in magic. I do believe in psychic ability. I believe that the universe is a more weird, and fundamentally cool and magical place than can be easily apparent--and that humans are part of that fundamental weirdcoolmagicness, if they want to be. I believe that the focused application of will can do things that aren't easily explained by science.
I believe in an afterlife, and i'm not particularly concerned by what's going to happen to me there right now. I don't think I believe in a Hell--really, how many people have had unpleasant or scary near-death experiences?
I believe in a divine, ineffable Something that's present in everything, that's probably also somehow a personal presence that cares about everything. So I believe in God, or the existence of something that's useful to call God. But I don't exactly feel a need to worship. I enjoy life, and stay happy, and kinda try to pay attention to those sorts of spiritual needs,and I seem to be happy, so I think I'm doing alright. And I make it point of telling the universe "Thank You!" on those days that are particularly nice. So...eh.
And I was raised with a Catholic religious background, and even if in the nitty-gritty bits I don't agree with all the dogma, if I'm going to attend a christian religious service, I feel most comfortable with a Catholic or Episcopalian service. Episcopalians are cool. It is/was the result of when Henry VIII splilt off from the Catholic Church, said "I can divorce my wife" in the new church, but the services were still practically identical to the ones had while still Catholic. A few other things have changed since then, as well. My mom's got a girlfriend in Washington, and she's a priest at the National Cathedral in Washington DC--her kids are cool, too. I think that collection of sentences should make the point well enough.
So....that's Kalen on religion, more or less.
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Post by 0verture on Jul 17, 2005 16:36:37 GMT -5
Mm, I put my vote with agnosticism; not so much the more correct meaning of the word ("Belief that we can't know if God exists or not"), but just a general I-can't-be-sure-for-myself.
The most 'religious experiences' I've had, can all be explained away in terms of luck and flukes and coincidences, although they do seem to defeat the odds enough that I can't write them off as natural occurances just yet.
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Post by Oatway on Jul 17, 2005 17:43:03 GMT -5
You and your wreckless, Australian driving...
Good to see ya here 0verture.
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