What is everyone's religion/non religion?(NO Arguments plz)

I never knew that Muslims believed that. I didn't quite understand what you were saying though.
Do you mean that someone took Jesus off the cross and replaced the body with that of Judus to fool people?

The Romans were pretty good at their job as executioners. If they got it wrong they themselves were killed.
The day after Jesus was being killed was the Jews Holy day, and so the Romans wanted all the prisoners dead before then. They broke the prisoners knees on either side of Jesus thus making them die quickly, but found Jesus to already be dead. To make sure (because he was such an important prisoner and so much publicity was given to the case) they speared his side.
His body was then taken down and put in a borrowed friends tomb wrapped and guarded by Roman soldiers to make sure no-one stole the body again if they lost the body they would pay for it with thier lives.

Acounts of all this exist obviously in the bible but also are recorded by Roman historians and in their execution lists, but also by Jews and the Pharasies who thought his death was execellent as it would put an end to all of his teachings and followers.

In response to the christianity is a big umbrella thought, I think that the word christian has been debased to just something you tell people. It has no meaning anymore. I, personally, hate saying that I'm a Christian. I only say it so people won't give me totally blank looks when I say Seventh-day Adventist. But yeah, I don't really appreciate being put in the same boat with Catholics. I only pray to God. Not all the Mary, Joseph and saint crap. (no offense to catholics, not trying to pick a fight.)

Brought up as a Methodist (another denomination of Christianity), but basically agnostic. It'd be nice to believe that there's some kind of God that's basically a decent kind of being, but I don't have that kind of faith. It doesn't make much sense to me really.

I do think there's a lot to take from the Bible though (not looked at other religion's texts - Scientology aside, which is just silly IMHO) in terms of how to best live your life. Some of the ambiguity is a bit unfortunate, and some of the morals of the time in which it was written probably don't fit in 21st Century Western culture, but generally it's got a good bunch of morals running through the core of it.

Arrancar_Nana Yuki - It's a bit difficult to know what the original words of God (as Christians see Him) were. Many books of the Bible weren't written down until much later, so naturally it's possible that things were changed. Once beyond that, and even with those that were written down at the time, there's the issue of translation from the original text into the language of choice. A small minority of Christians choose to read the original, untranslated text, but for many it's far easier to read a tranlastion. Inherent in this is the fact that the "actual" words aren't going to be the same. However, if you compare versions of the Bible - The Good News to the King James versions, for example - while one may be written in English that's a little easier to understand and simplified, the tone and meaning of both is pretty much identical in most places. The majority of translations agree on the whole.

i'm muslim :D:D
and i'm not a terrorist :P lol
i have Christian freinds

I don't really appreciate being put in the same boat with Catholics. I only pray to God. Not all the Mary, Joseph and saint crap.

I fail to see how this isnt offensive. I have been friends with catholics all my life; other dominions of Christianity may see it as over-zealous, but american christianity is more than a match for it in terms of fundamentalism. So what if they want to pray to saints? Isnt it just a by-route to praying to God? He made them 'divine' after all.

You are in the same boat so like it or lump it. Its the same freaking God and practically the same bible. Isnt it funny how those of us who arn't relgious seem to be more 'christian' than many christians.

2 men go before God, one has done marvellous things all his life, given to charity and helped the needy, knowing he will get his reward in heaven, another has done all of those things; expecting no reward. Just acting through pure kindness. I'd always prefer to be the latter.

If there is a heaven; I'm sure the bouncers wont be letting in people who are looking for fragmentation. If heaven is full of christians slagging off anything that may wish to practice relgion, slightly differently; well I dont want to be there.

Why cant people just accept life and the people in it the way it is?; live in the present and carpe dium. There are so many relgions anyway; the odds are you've picked the wrong one...might aswell enjoy life and let your moral compass be your guide.

oo i'm a just a christian my family ownz a church and stuff so i like have 2 pray read the bible so i no a lot about god so hav any thing 2 ask hitme up

The second you claim to be something, whether is be Christian, Buddhist or other you come under scrutiny for that faith. Of course your going to fail as your human. The great thing about your faith may be that you believe your God will forgive you, but you will be held accountable as a witness by those around you and judged by them.

Arrancar_Nana Yuki- So do all Muslims believe that God took Jesus' body and replaced it with that of Judas to be crucified? why would he do that?

I don't believe any Muslim is a terrorist,
the ones who suicide bomb, well sure, they are a little... odd... but they are just fighting for what they believe in, and they happen to believe in it enough to give their lives to it. Strong, strong beliefs

I happen to be friends with quite a few Muslims, one who happens to hate most Atheists... though that is because most people see an atheist as someone who hates religion and wants nothing to do with it, Atheoi, the origin of the word Atheist, means "Without god" do you see god-hater in there at all? No, just some of them hate god, you can call that ground anti-religious atheists...
And, quite the contrary, I may not believe in god, but I still find religion to be extremely interesting, it's fun learning about new and old religions and how they worked and what was involved in them



Arrancar_Nana Yuki



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Heh yama...like prelude said....u wanna start a topic about religon and u expect us not to fight?

My dad said never start a topic anout religion unless u wanna start a fight^^

ok im a Muslim....and till now i think that our relgion so far makes most sense to me
i dont get the fact how christians ever came to the thought of ever thinking that Jesus is Gods Son....
in our religion we call it Haram....which means its a Sin


Yuki, I am expecting that the people here have enough self control not to, it really would be pathetic for grown people to fight over such a silly thing, believe whatever you want to believe, it is part of life, nobody can take away your beliefs, even if you cannot show it on the outside, the inside still has it secretly

I fail to see how this isnt offensive. I have been friends with catholics all my life; other dominions of Christianity may see it as over-zealous, but american christianity is more than a match for it in terms of fundamentalism. So what if they want to pray to saints? Isnt it just a by-route to praying to God? He made them 'divine' after all.

I'm sorry Gem. I guess that was offensive. I really dont have anything against catholics themselves. Theres many good people out there who are catholic. I just disagree with the belief that Mary, Joseph, or those saints were in any way divine. Only God's divine. Jesus even lost His divinity while he was on earth. I mean, you could argue that those saints were filled with the Holy Spirit. I do believe in the Holy Spirit. (The whole Trinity.) But divine is implying that they were somehow exempt from the plan of salvation or were equal to God. I dont agree with that.

I am a southern baptist. I do not beleive the whole"science has an answer for everything" thing, though my grandpa thinks you can beleive in both. I'm am completely religion tolerant, after all, my best freind(and cousin) is a buddhist, my favorite uncles jewish, and my great aunt is catholic. So i'm definitely not trying to start anything.

no divine means that they were chosen by god to spread his message.

Everyone is chosen to spread God's message. Its just our place to accept it or not. No, divine means to be as good as God. Nobody can be divine but Him,Jesus and the Holy Spirit. We are justified by his righteousness but no one is divine.

I am roman catholic

christian

Whatever. Have it your way. I dont want to argue. But thats not what divine means. Look it up.

and theres no such thing as world peace. The world is a sinful place, incapable of all being peaceful at the same time. As the end nears, this world is going to get worse and worse. Then Jesus will come.

(Sorry if it seems like I have an opinion on everything, but Im just speaking my mind.)

and theres no such thing as world peace. The world is a sinful place, incapable of all being peaceful at the same time. As the end nears, this world is going to get worse and worse.



Wow Dream, I couldn't have said it better myself; Seriously



Main Entry: 1di·vine
Pronunciation: \də-ˈvīn\
Function: adjective
Inflected Form(s): di·vin·er; di·vin·est
Etymology: Middle English divin, from Anglo-French, from Latin divinus, from divus god — more at deity
Date: 14th century
1 a: of, relating to, or proceeding directly from God or a god b: being a deity c: directed to a deity
2 a: supremely good : superb b: heavenly, godlike
— di·vine·ly adverb


There is the meaning of Divine (Adj.)

Yes Yuki, I probably shouldn't have said that; truth is, a LOT of people fight over religion... and it's just pathetic...

I've noticed, most of the 'controversial' conversations are only controversial because of these kind of people:

People who ALWAYS have to be right
People who love to disagree
People who believe everyone has to believe what they believe


honestly, if you think about it, the points people make for not doing(or doing)/believing/not believing certain things often have various huge holes in them, however they choose to be ignorant and stubborn and not admit to those holes(or fix them) and thus the topic becomes controversial

It's perfectly fine to express opinion, but expressing opinion and expecting everyone else to follow YOUR opinion, it takes a mighty large ego to do that...

I should know, my little brother has the ego the size of the Titanic (funny, I have the ego the size of a toothpick... wonder how that happened... nevermind...)

The point is, basically, it is Human Nature to ALWAYS have someone that disagrees for some reason... and powerful things(or thing SEEN as powerful but not actually that powerful) are disagreed on even more; religion, death penalty, war, and much more are all percieved as powerful in our society(or actually are powerful) thus they are disagreed on non stop.

^^' sorry... I am in a writing mood, but I don't have the story I was working on near me, so I can't finish Chapter I *Sigh* as you can see I am bored and typing for the sake of releasing that boredom...

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. That how I believe it is with God.
He set everything up around us and gave us all we need to live. If He then ORDERED us to love him like robots. Thats not love its a duty.
You wouldn't want to marry someone and have them as your life partner having forced them into it at gun point. You want and deserve to be loved for who you are and the things you have done.

Things are changing in the world and always will because with free will comes choice, and egos and people thinking they know best.

God has given guidlines in his Holy book, put His Son on earth as a living example and even allows us to talk one to one to Him directly.
How much more help could He really give us? But yet listening to Him and following those guidlines are never easy because of things that lure us away from him.

why should you expect to?

On the topic of religion,
I think that its better not to contimplating on whether your living a good life and a just one, with fear of unspeakable concequences...
Me myself, I am not saying that there is a definite god and Im not saying there isn't...
I believe if there is a god he would understand my need for logical explanation and deffinate conclusion...
Life wouldnt be the same without belief and loyality to a person, but everyone should have the right in which they decide...