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

Well it looks like the most interesting thread on Listal just went up in flames!! Gemlil, Prelude, Voxy, fancy doing your thing now please?? (Is there any way to delete the actual posts so that there isnt a long stream of "deleted off topic" "deleted" etc there?) I know some of this above was on topic, but it still ruins the thread...

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Alpt

Alpt 15 years, 11 months ago at Jun 6 23:29 -

Agnostic, which means I get along with pretty much everyone.

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Devious Phenomenon

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GemLil

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GemLil 15 years, 11 months ago at Jun 8 0:05 -

Right, I really liked this thread, so Im re-releasing it back to the wild, consider it a trial.

I think a two sentance minimum will suffice as indication of a good post. (Other mods) feel free to re-lock this if you dont agree. :)

Deleted user

Deleted 15 years, 11 months ago at Jun 14 23:33 -

Nice work Lil! This thread is one of the most interesting ones going.

What are peoples views on the secrecy surrounding certain religions? Are people being too suspicious? Is there nothing being hidden or are we getting the edited truth to suit someones agenda etc? Im not talking scientology here, thats just a crock of bull, but certain other religions are highly suspect. Mormons for example, their religion is founded on a man being told by God to go out in to the mountains where he had hidden 2 plates made of Gold with instructions on them, and he told him to build a religion around it... Now i mean....what the hell?! Are they for real?! If God today, told me to go out and find 2 plates in a mountain and i found them and they had information on etc, id want every scientist in the world working on a way to find out how,who,where,why etc this happened and a way to communicate back saying "Do your own dirty work G"

It seems like now days new religions tend to me money making schemes. But whos to say a lot of the older religions weren't either? Im not taking a pop at the bigguns like Christianity, Islam or Judaism, (im not listing every religion here...)

Deleted user

Deleted 15 years, 11 months ago at Jun 15 0:16 -

The lawful thing God hates most is divorce. (Abu Dawud)
these are hadith which means sayings from our holy prophets and our lord.

Richard A. Booth

Richard A. Booth 15 years, 11 months ago at Jun 15 1:07 -

I'm not religious, but do consider myself to be 'spiritual'. As an example of what I believe: the universe isn't mechanistic, but an interconnected web of processes and energy patterns, and seemingly indiviual, autonomous parts are actually just transiently stable abstractions of a greater whole. I believe this greater whole encompasses the entire universe and, quite probably, something beyond the 'physical'. Which includes consciousness; whilst I don't believe in an 'afterlife' as such, I do believe consciousness to be eternal, and that, once we die, our individual concsiousness is re-absorbed into a 'sea of consciousness', from where it may re-emerge in another fleetingly stable form. Furthermore, I think physics (particularly quantum theory) strongly points to such an interconnected universe, and that this will become increasingly the case with further advances in physical research and theory. So, I don't think physics and spiritualism need be incompatible, but the dogmatic nature of religion I have no truck with.

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Deleted 15 years, 11 months ago at Jun 17 19:16 -

i'm a Protestant Christian. but i don't stand in the middle of the street and preach. that's way too extreme.

ANBU Sasaki

ANBU Sasaki 15 years, 11 months ago at Jun 17 20:39 -

K Jessica.
Yuki, thanks for explaining that. I was stuck on the meaning of hadith :@

Richard A. Booth

Richard A. Booth 15 years, 11 months ago at Jun 17 21:02 -

Asking people what their 'non religion' is seems a little strange.

robelanator

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robelanator 15 years, 11 months ago at Jun 17 21:17 -

Richard A. Booth said:

Asking people what their 'non religion' is seems a little strange.

Well, there is a difference between atheism, agnosticism, and spiritualism.

Richard A. Booth

Richard A. Booth 15 years, 11 months ago at Jun 17 21:24 -

That's true, I hadn't thought about that.

Xeil

Xeil 15 years, 11 months ago at Jun 18 17:34 -

i don't really have a set religion for me. but my American Studies teacher is a Postifarian. if any of you know what that is.

Deleted user

Deleted 15 years, 11 months ago at Jun 25 2:30 -

sorry xeil i have no clue

Hey robelanator....wats the difference between atheism, agnosticism, and spiritualism?

Deleted user

Deleted 15 years, 11 months ago at Jun 25 2:48 -

my religion is polytheastic, i believe in the gods of the greeks

robelanator

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robelanator 15 years, 11 months ago at Jun 25 19:40 -

Hokage_Nayuki wrote:

Hey robelanator....wats the difference between atheism, agnosticism, and spiritualism?

Atheism: the disbelief in the existence of god(s).

Agnosticism: the belief that the existence or non-existence of god(s) is unknowable.

Spiritualism: a belief in god(s), a higher power, or any kind of spiritual plane of existence, but the belief is either largely undefined or outside the doctrine of traditional organized religion. See Richard A. Booth's Jun 14 20:07 post above, for example.

Deleted user

Deleted 15 years, 11 months ago at Jun 26 0:27 -

oh...ok..thanx

Neithan

Neithan 15 years, 11 months ago at Jun 26 12:27 -

Nihilist

Deleted user

Deleted 15 years, 10 months ago at Jun 27 1:56 -

Nihilist

LOL

Neithan

Neithan 15 years, 10 months ago at Jun 27 2:05 -

LOL

There's nothing funny about this ;))

Melinda

Melinda 15 years, 10 months ago at Jun 28 5:56 -

I am a christian.

Deleted user

Deleted 15 years, 10 months ago at Jun 28 6:22 -

What is a Nihilist? If I may ask?

Deleted user

Deleted 15 years, 10 months ago at Jun 28 6:24 -

Yeah I wanna know too

Neithan

Neithan 15 years, 10 months ago at Jun 29 11:57 -

basicly, nihilism is not a religion, it'a a philosophy

in big shortcut, this is believing in nothing

Deleted user

Deleted 15 years, 10 months ago at Jun 29 16:14 -

From American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition:

Nihilism is... "An approach to philosophy that holds that human life is meaningless and that all religions, laws, moral codes, and political systems are thoroughly empty and false. The term is from the Latin nihil, meaning 'nothing.'"

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