What has your Religion done for you?

and i never claimed to be any religion.

 

May I ask, do you believe in anything?

 

well, anyway, the actual topic. being a christian helps me to feel bad after i've been a total asshole. someday it may stop me entirely from being an asshole. but i'm not holding my breath. it also helps me to stop being mad at other assholes once i've vented.

 

quote: i didnt say you were an orthodox jew, but the ones that are are generally not a nice people.


i hope that you have met more than 1 to make a statement like this.....I can broaden it to say that I don't really like any form of fundamentalist or orthodox religion.

What i have stated has little to dowith religion, and everything to do with group think and the majority versus minority...

I'm not saying that I was discriminated against like many blacks or arabs have felt, but it has a profound effect on a kid to hear jokes about the holocaust when his relatives died in it etc.

 

yes, but i dont believe in organized religion.

 

My religion is the Hip Forums. I try to come here everyday to pay homage to all that deserve it. Not many have deserved such attention though.

 

i do.

 

ive seen fiddler on the roof.

 

really?

 

To elaborate..

I feel I'm agnostic. I firmly believe that there is something more than we can comprehend, and that something started allof this madness, but I'm not going to guess what it is, or choose what others believe just for the hell of it.

I guess i believe in intelligent design to a point....helps me to think there is a chance that I have a purpose here.

 

but what has it done for you? lol.

 

Mine has made me defensive and cynical.

 

well organized religion has alienated me, my agnostic/alien intervention beliefs have made me feel that there is some method to this madness.

I'd like to learn more about buddhism, seems to be an enlightened religion.

 

i lean toward taoism, myself.

 

growing up an atheist has given me the ability to question anything and everything about our existance and behaviour. it's allowed me to pick and choose different aspects of different religons and stretch the bounds of faith. i don't believe in many things, but i definitely don't believe in nothing. i'm quite happy being a pagan buddhist hedonistic existentialist.

 

I have faith, a few ideas, and a healthy curiosity about the nature of reality.

I believe all religions, ultimately, are talking about the same day-to-day reality in which we all live (whether one knows it or not).

I have absolute respect for every faith (though I do have some doubts about Scientology).

I have faith that most people's relationship to God changes as their lives unfold, but it is more or less what they need it to be.

I believe every religion is a path to enlightenment, but one should know the difference between the path and the destination.

I believe enlightenment is sanity. It seems extraordinary only because too many people have never experienced it.

My faith has taught me to appreciate my fellow humans far more deeply than I think I would have. When free from ego, identity and expectation, humans are utterly fascinating, good hearted and lovable.

And Peanuts, though it is long overdue, I like the way YOU think too.

Peace and Love

 

It made me a prude in the bedroom for a very long time and made me completley submissive in reltationships...oh yeah and it made me think I was going to hell when I was a kid.

 

nothing at all, don't believe in it..

 

Thank you. Welcome to the forums. It's nice to meet you.

 

taught me what was truly valuble