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How many of y'all religious?
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| >>a3988c Researching primitive beliefs is a fascinating part of anthropology, allowing them to take the place of your own responsibility and ethics is an act of desperation or ignorance.
| >>272804 i like this perspective. I think the world could be far better if people were proactive in deciding and developing their own ethics and responsibilities. Ideology of all kinds can be dangerous.
| >>272812
Sociesties need to be build around a single ethic, othewrise they are not a single society.
| >>272778
I have lost my faith in Western civilization at this point tbh. I am more into Hindu at this point, to be honest.
| >>272813 can't the single ethic we use to build a society be that there should be no single ethics?
| God hates fag
| I grew up in a half catholic household and go to a catholic school but as i grow older i just believe less and less tbh. i just want to live my life. i've felt that believing what i believed has put all these unecessary rules on me that are restricting me from living my life that way i want to live it. may sound stupid but what do i know. i do find religions interesting to research about sometimes though, and at one point considered about becoming pagan, lol
| I've been in a very religious family all my life, been Catholic since I was born, never questioned it much as a child, I hated myself for swearing or doing bad things, puberty struck and I thought myself the devil for masturbating, eventually I got over that and the past few years I've struggled to keep my faith, honestly I never thought I'd reach this point but when I go to church on Sundays I just look around and think to myself how absurd this feels.
| Having to go on our knees, singing songs, praying in unison I don't know it just feels so cult like... I honestly feel like I don't belong there. But no ways I could ever tell my parents that. I don't know if it's because the Internet poisoned my mind, or the devil is making me doubt my faith or if I just grew up...
| So you could say I'm religious, I go to mass every Sunday and what not. But truthfully I hate having to go, only reason I do is because it would break my parents hearts if I told them.
| I was raised Catholic, but now I'm agnostic. If anyone ever convinces me there really is a god, that wouldn't be enough to make me a follower. Just because god is something, doesn't mean it's everything.
| >>273110
I somewhat agree, if God really created us, does he really want us to spend our entire lives praising him? Did he create humanity solely to glorify him for all eternity, like some giant ego boost? I'd like to believe that if he really created us, he created us to live our lives to the fullest, not to dedicate ourselves to him and only him.
| >>272778 I grew up atheist too and now, since where I live used to be Catholic I find myself wanting to learn more, today I wish religion split from the religious aspect like in Japan, where people do rituals not because they're believers but because of tradition.
So much tradition was lost when they ditched the religion in the 60's where I live.
| In fact, I'd argue that most people make their own personal religions whether they realize it or not. It's nonsensical to expect hundreds of millions of "adherents" to all believe the same thing- if such were the case, we would be an amorphous, hivemind.
Good example- check out that Polish priest who prayed for the early death of Pope Francis because he didn't like the direction the current pope's taking (a direction of tolerance; for gays, atheists, muslims, etc).
| The worst people can do when they create their personal belief/ethical system is to restrain themselves to the details. It need not be religion either- this is true of pretty much any organized whatzit.
You're a democrat, but you believe in small government? Heretic. You're a republican, but are pro-choice? Heretic.
Traps are NOT gay?
>INFIDEL!
| I'm not very religious as I don't necessarily wanna do some stuff my religion tells me. I disagree and agree with some stuff and I believe in 1 god.
| I was raised in a christian protestant family, in a neighbourhood with the same religion, I became and atheist somewhere around the age of 13 and started to praise Kek around the age of 20 more or less.
| It's nice to consider that there is something after death. That's what's good in religion. Not existing is infinitely terrifying. I know some people say you won't care about then when you're dead and why let it burden you know, but I just can't. I wish there were any guarantees that you get reborn, go to heaven or whatever. Even eternal suffering in hell seems less scary in comparison.
| >>273401 it's interesting how subjective it all is. I take a lot of comfort in the idea that after death there is nothing but a complete void. I feel that it makes the time I have left more valuable.
| Pfff, ya all faking normies... Everyone knows that spaggeti god is the one and trully.
| God Is An Overweight Sassy Black Woman With Stretch Marks And Vitiligo
| I offer my body and soul to the great CHINCHIN everyday.
| Extraordinary claims need extraordinary proof/evidence. And God is the infinite of extraordinary by definition.
| I believe in my own religion; it says there's no God and that we all come from a fart of the nothing. Maybe it sounds illogical that the nothing has a fart but who cares: the religion doesn't need to be logical. :-)
| The discussion was nice while it lasted...
| I'm more of a pagan, I'd praise lucifer I guess. I'm also into a little bit of hinduism.
| I was homeschooled for 12 years in a Christian home. I hated it. The Bible is a self contractory mess and I don't care for it. I am happy atheist.
| Coming from a Buddhist country, I was raised as a Buddhist, but my family did not treat it like a religion like most people in my country do. I rarely visited my temple (Buddhist equivalentl to church, in my country at least), I never pray, never did any of that overly religious stuff. For me, it's a philosophy, sort of a guide to live my life, but I don't need to follow strictly and face the consequences if I don't.
| I grew up in a buddhist family. I'm not a very religious person but I still participate in most of the practices and rituals just because it make my parents be at ease.
| the mythology part its pretty cool, its like reading the lore of a game, but ill go straight to hell without regretting it if any religion was right.
| My baptism was on 7 waters and my name had a secret I cannot tell.
I'm not "religious" but I do follow the rules of karma and believe in gods, specially nature.
Kinda like a druid I guess.
| I grow up catholic in a catholic family. Most people think a catholic lifestyle means losing some of the pleasures of life. I actually believe not, instead sometimes it really helps you to stay away from everything that could harm your feelings or yourself living a long life with all your beloved people with the simple price of devotion and faith whithout judging anyone because only God can judge his sons.
| I... I guess I'm agnostic, if anything. I kinda want to believe that there are some higher powers we may not understand, but at the same time all religions that I know about are just means to control the people. No religion I know of would really suit me as much as I'd want it to before I start to actually believe and perform the necessary rituals.
| any shintoists?
| I grew up in a very religious christian family, studied in christian schools my whole life up until the end of highschool and most of my friends while growing up were christians as well. But around my teen years I started noticing a lot of religious hypocrisy, bias and stupidity going on around the religion and it's community itself, I noticed I didn't really believed in the Bible but was scared into believing in it through fearmongering. Nowadays I guess I'm a agnostic atheist.
| >>276101 And I'm not necessarily against religion, you believe in what you want, I'm not stopping you, but I'm still not convinced in any religions out there. However, I do envy believers sometimes, I wish I could believe there's someone out there that's helping me and wishes my ultimate well-being or that there's something more to life after death, I really wish I could sometimes.
| I'm not religious but I find ancient Egyptian religion interesting
| I was raised catholic. Then I got leukemia (blood cancer) when I was 17 years old. I met many strong and ambitious persons. Also the most important one in my life. Unfortunately, I'm the only one of them all who survived. My fiancee suffered too much pain caused by sepsis and hard chems. There was no god with us there. Of course, i'm not atheist, I have my own independent religion where so called "god" is the actual antagonist. Why everybody has to suffer for nothing but his whim?
| >>276112 I always think about this. I'm this anon btw>>afde44 my id changed.
But yeah, my mom's side of the family is Christian, and my grandma always talks about how she didn't worry have to worry much about danger happening to her as long as she had faith. Mind you she lived through WWII and has travelled to dozens of countries before she was 20.
| And I envy that too. I really do. Sometimes I too wish I had faith in a higher power, so that I won't have to worry as much, but being raised as a Buddhist and pretty much a complete believer of science, I'm not given that luxury.
| I was raised in a Protestant household, started to become incredibly doubtful as I grew up, and eventually returned to religion when I started to realize I could never be fulfilled without it.
| >>275925
Not quite, but I'm very interested in shintoism from a rather mythological standpoint. Still don't know much about the religion itself, though, unfortunately.
| I'm a Christian, but I get rather annoyed at the stereotypical Christian. The reason I am is because I believe in Jesus and God, talking to other Christians it seems almost like they are only in it because we believe in Heaven
| I was born into the Mormon cult and I'm stuck in it. I don't know what to do with my family because they've been in it for generations and I love my family. I want to get out before my parents pressure me into doing their weird illuminati rituals. They're already getting suspicious because I'm not paying my tithing. I've never seen people so empty than in this church, it's like they are constantly lying to themselves until there is nothing left. Any other Mormons out there?
| Atheist here. Have been one since always. Am glad my parents are irreligious too and didn't fill my head with religious crap, nor lectured me against it, they just let me be. It is obvious, to me at least, that the world has always been full of mythology. At all times, the prevailing and in fashion one, is labeled religion.
| Be nice to believe in that stuff. Used to and stopped in teens.
Derived a lot of comfort from prayer. As well as terrified nights thinking about hell as a child.
But I think I was overall happier then. Than the part-time degenerate I am now. But that could have more to do with being younger.
| my parents were actually atheists, never went to church in my life. Quite interesting to hear about your experiences g/u/rls
| Atheist. Always have, always will be.
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| I grew up agnostic/atheist and recently I've found reading and hearing about different religions fascinating. What are your experiences with religion?