FreakerSoup
05-03-2006, 06:59 AM
And as a bonus, to what do you attribute those beliefs?
I don't follow any religion. I accept that there may be a god, but I do not pray or worship. Sometimes I'll just look to the sky on a beautiful day and think "If you're there, thanks." I believe in living a life of love and truth, and helping people when you can.
I believe I got most of these from parents and grandparents. My GP's are fairly religious, but not in a you-must-be-also way. They are very worldly. Kinda like Ghandi. My parents made an effort to bring us to church, but we were always bored, and nothing stuck, and we stopped going. I spent most of my developing life in VT, and religion just wasn't something on our minds. In WNY, I was exposed to fundamentalism when I got to high school. My girlfriend was a christian fundie, and didn't believe in evolution and thought gays were going to hell and even that a christian can't marry a non-christian. I think that turned me off religion more than anything. I was open, and went to her church a number of times, and there were a bunch of people there flailing arms and speaking in toungues and tapping tambourines. It was creepy to me, and luckily she turned into a big hippie, and we're still friends. My parents never discussed sex or drugs with us, and yet I've never had either (yes, by choice). The peace and love stuff probably came from high school projects on wars and atrocities and whatnot. It's only logical. Truth, I think, developed from a respect for the people I was always accountable to. My parents are cool, my principles were cool, and a number of teachers were great, and I can't lie to people like that. On the other hand, I had a couple crazy power hungry teachers who I loved to mess with.
Now I want to know about you.
I don't follow any religion. I accept that there may be a god, but I do not pray or worship. Sometimes I'll just look to the sky on a beautiful day and think "If you're there, thanks." I believe in living a life of love and truth, and helping people when you can.
I believe I got most of these from parents and grandparents. My GP's are fairly religious, but not in a you-must-be-also way. They are very worldly. Kinda like Ghandi. My parents made an effort to bring us to church, but we were always bored, and nothing stuck, and we stopped going. I spent most of my developing life in VT, and religion just wasn't something on our minds. In WNY, I was exposed to fundamentalism when I got to high school. My girlfriend was a christian fundie, and didn't believe in evolution and thought gays were going to hell and even that a christian can't marry a non-christian. I think that turned me off religion more than anything. I was open, and went to her church a number of times, and there were a bunch of people there flailing arms and speaking in toungues and tapping tambourines. It was creepy to me, and luckily she turned into a big hippie, and we're still friends. My parents never discussed sex or drugs with us, and yet I've never had either (yes, by choice). The peace and love stuff probably came from high school projects on wars and atrocities and whatnot. It's only logical. Truth, I think, developed from a respect for the people I was always accountable to. My parents are cool, my principles were cool, and a number of teachers were great, and I can't lie to people like that. On the other hand, I had a couple crazy power hungry teachers who I loved to mess with.
Now I want to know about you.