Religion Thread

With which religion do you identify?

  • Protestant Christianity

    Votes: 24 6.6%

  • Catholic Christianity

    Votes: 32 8.8%

  • Other Christianity

    Votes: 21 5.8%

  • Sunni Islam

    Votes: 39 10.7%

  • Shia Islam

    Votes: 2 0.5%

  • Other Islam

    Votes: 7 1.9%

  • Judaism

    Votes: 3 0.8%

  • Hinduism

    Votes: 2 0.5%

  • Jainism

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Sikhism

    Votes: 2 0.5%

  • Paganism

    Votes: 16 4.4%

  • Confucianism

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Shintoism

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other Traditional Religion

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • Pantheism

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • Agnosticism

    Votes: 30 8.2%

  • Non-religious, but spirituality in some form.

    Votes: 17 4.7%

  • Atheism

    Votes: 119 32.7%

  • Other

    Votes: 10 2.7%

  • Taoism

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • Buddhism

    Votes: 2 0.5%

  • Terrible at Werewolf

    Votes: 35 9.6%
  • Total voters
    364

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Catholic

Catholic

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  Figured instead of having random topics pop up from time to time, we might as well keep it in one. Rules are pretty much forum rules, bash religion or atheism as much as you like but avoid generalizing and insulting believers/atheists/individuals.
 
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Run for the hills, hide your treasures!

Ninja Edit: Was. Was viewing the thread.
 
My religous journey is rather unique.
My father sent me to a Catholic School (before my expulsion and enrolment in state school) and went with me to church.
All the while my mum enforced stringent jewish traditions.

I am actually not sure if I actually believe/disbelieve in dieties, I never think about it much.

But I would believe that I could mostly relate to the Quakers or the Levellers.
 
You're 14, eh? That doesn't seem too weird. I was Catholic as a child, Christian-esque when I was 12-14, agnostic when I was 15, atheist when I was 16 and back to Christian-esque when I was 17, and I still am now. For me, it was studying world religions that convinced me that religion has a value, and made me a sort-of-Christian again.

Point being, you're still young and it makes sense to question things. You'll figure it out eventually. It's not like God will smite you for losing your faith, and it in no way affects your quality as a person.

I could always pray for your faith, too.  :razz:
 
Honestly, I'm a bit confused here. You don't feel any connection to Catholicism, but you're not looking into any other faiths? There's thousands of religions out there, if one isn't working out then perhaps you should look into an alternative. Even if you're still interested in just sticking with YWHW, there's still plenty of choices available to you, including just being an eclectic self study. Going that route allows you to escape a lot of the centuries of political bull**** that's been accumulating with any of the major sects, as well as encouraging you to learn more of the truth about your faith (instead of what people want you to believe about it).

Edit: I'm a bit ninja'd by Toffey, apparently.
 
Shatari said:
Honestly, I'm a bit confused here. You don't feel any connection to Catholicism, but you're not looking into any other faiths? There's thousands of religions out there, if one isn't working out then perhaps you should look into an alternative. Even if you're still interested in just sticking with YWHW, there's still plenty of choices available to you, including just being an eclectic self study. Going that route allows you to escape a lot of the centuries of political bull**** that's been accumulating with any of the major sects, as well as encouraging you to learn more of the truth about your faith (instead of what people want you to believe about it).
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Probably. To be honest, I'm mostly interested in simply nondenominational Christianity. I'll go through this confirmation garbage for my family while I have to, I don't really mind it, but once I'm older I'll read the Bible and interpret it as I see it, instead of being spoonfed. Besides, the whole savior story actually appeals to me, whether or not it's true, it'll most likely make a positive impact in my life.
 
Catholic said:
Probably. To be honest, I'm mostly interested in simply nondenominational Christianity. I'll go through this confirmation garbage for my family while I have to, I don't really mind it, but once I'm older I'll read the Bible and interpret it as I see it, instead of being spoonfed. Besides, the whole savior story actually appeals to me, whether or not it's true, it'll most likely make a positive impact in my life.
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Honestly, I approach my religion in a similar fashion. My parents and my sister get into the powwows and ceremonies quite a bit, but I don't see them as essential to my actual religion. Of course, I enjoy them as a part of my culture (also because they always mean loud drums and good food) and I try to attend them whenever I can, but for me it's really more of a family gathering than a religious event.
 
I didn't really expect my comment to actually come to anything. :lol: Wonder if Specialist will show up...

Catholic said:
  Figured instead of having random topics pop up from time to time, we might as well keep it in one. Rules are pretty much forum rules, bash religion or atheism as much as you like but avoid generalizing and insulting believers/atheists/individuals.
 
  I might as well start my story first, though I figure this thread's more suited for debates than anything. I go to a catholic church school sort of thing in order to receive confirmation in a year, The more I go to the church school the more disillusioned I get with the Catholic faith, to the point where I practically don't believe in any of it. I debate with the instructors and argue against them yet I learn just about nothing. Not too recently, becoming more wary of even the Christian faith, I told one of the instructors I don't feel God in life. So he told me he'd pray for me and I should just wait and try to find him. At least another instructor gave me an inspiring story of how he used to be a diehard atheist and is now a Catholic instructor, at least I don't feel alone, but nonetheless I'm still having huge religious doubts. At least I try.
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So you're essentially going down the path I thought you would when we first spoke a year ago. We'll see if that trend continues. :razz:

I'll post my (boring) story tonight.
 
Well, I'm a Christian, pentecostal to be exact. Probably the only one here lol. My whole family is and always has been pentecostal, and so are my grandparents too. I'm quite fine with that. Most people to my understanding think of us as the very umm well I'm not sure what the word is but very very christian types or whatever. When I was 15-16, I was really kinda not into it much. Was somewhat "rebelling" I guess. Then again, I was at the age where I was against quite much to anything. I have more un religous friends than religous ones, and they are aware that I'm a christian, and it has never bothered any of them or anyone that knows me. Neither in school or when not in school.
 
So ironic considering your name, Cath  :razz:

My mother's side of the family is strict Catholic, my father's is Methodist, and I grew up going to one of those two churches every Sunday. But yeah, I'm sort of the same way. As I've grown older and thought about it, I really don't believe it.

Eh I don't necessarily consider myself atheist, but I'm really skeptical. "Religiously confused" I suppose.


IMO religions, gods, etc. were invented by humans to explain things that we couldn't explain through science and whatnot - i.e. the creation of earth. But now modern-day, I feel like we have reasonable scientific explanations for everything, (evolution, big bang) and religion almost seems silly.
The ancient greeks thought lightning occurred because Zeus was throwing them out of anger, right? They didn't really have any logical explanation, so they assumed there was divine intervention. I feel like years from now science will be to the point that all religions seem silly like that
 
Shatari said:
Honestly, I'm a bit confused here. You don't feel any connection to Catholicism, but you're not looking into any other faiths?
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That is an essential part of Catholicism. All he's missing is the guilt and resentment from holding such doubt.

 
I grew up Catholic, but once I discovered the internet and had the opportunity to read about science in more detail (since I have always liked science and math even as I grew up), I became a closet atheist. I do not think anyone in my family knows, though my father may, but I do not want to offend anyone who has graciously given me a lot of money and support for the religious ceremonies I was in by being openly atheist to those select people just yet.
 
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