What are your religous beliefs?

You make yourself sound so pretentious to the extent people will just perceive you as a troll.

 

Apples + Pears.

Some strawberries too.

 

Still this.
Amen.

 

I guess you could catergorise me as spiritual.

But really I just believe what I wish to believe.

 

I define myself as a Luciferian. It's more of a philosophy than a religion really, surprisingly very similar to Buddhism but a tad less zen if I can say that. Balance is very important, so is the will to always improve and develop yourself (physically, intellectually and spiritually), take responsibility, celebrate yourself and your greatness (you're a living god after all, so that's the least you deserve!), be fair and live the best life you could have. Some people mistake us for satanists, mostly because people tend to mix up Satan and Lucifer (they're 2 different guys according to our views!) and also a bit because those 2 philosophies share some similarities. But Luciferianism is, in my point of view, far less hedonistic and has a more strict moral than satanism. For example a Luciferian doesn't allow him/herself to be mean out of revenge, opportunity or malice (but on the flipside it's also a duty to stand up for yourself when needed, so that means you might have to be "mean" sometimes), to abuse of the good things in life (we're epicurians, not hedonists) or allow oneself to dive into intellectual laziness. These are good guidelines to live a healthy, productive and happy life, it's so simple and straight to the point, it just makes sense so I don't see why I would need a bossy god to tell me what to do with my life!

 

Using this definition: "religion: a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe," I base my beliefs on naturalism and humanism. I throw in bits of earth based and other beliefs such as buddhism, where they pertain to getting along with all life so that everyone and everything benefits from life.

 

I can answer this. I believe that for all objects in the Universe, there was a Subject before man came on the scene,

 

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What were you answering exactly?

 

there is a greater universe then any religion imagines, and that's just our physical one. there may well be others also.
there are more things to be known, then there are awarenesses of any kind to know them.
that there must there for, be a near infinity of things, about which, no one knows anything.

that there is something big, friendly and invisible, that gives great hugs, and is not at war with anything.

this may or may not correspond with the god of one or more, and very possibly all, religions.

that all else, and perhaps even that, may very well be little more then speculation.

the invisible hug is something i've personally experienced, but cannot thereby expect to be believed by anyone not myself.
unless of course, they too have as well. which i rather suspect, many have and likewise many have not.

that the nonphysical is not limited to a god or gods, but that like gods, all that is widely believed, begins, and quite possibly ends, in speculation.

that christianity is no more then one belief among many, and that personal beliefs are no less likely then popular ones.

that humanity might not have been created by pouting child god, told to sit in the corner in a darkened room, who then created our universe to amuse itself while its parents forced it to sit there, but rather by the far less powerful, though often amusing trickster; coyote, who created us, pretty much as one of his typically, usually but not always, mostly harmless, jokes.

that a lack of infallibility is NOT a propensity toward evil.

that nothing infallible is likely ever to have walked the face of this earth, though at thousand year intervals, certain humans may have been chosen by this god, to channel it.
(it seems exceeding unlikely to me however, that any of them ever got it entirely right)

there are other things i believe and those i don't. there is no convenient name by which to consolodate them all.

there are several quotes from several religious leaders i do like:

baha'u'llah said that when two people argue about religion they are both wrong (on this account i must admit to being wrong myself frequently, my ego often refuses to permit me to remain silent)

lao tsu is attributed to having said, whatever you think god (or the universe or all, he called it the tao or dao) is, it is almost certainly something else.

i believe the true self is completely non-physical, and has nothing to do with physical appearance or form. that it is defined not by memory or experiences, but by something like a complex tarbal of our preferences. but again, completely non-physical.

i believe, if i have not yet made this sufficiently clear, that the non-physical is not confined to the mind and its perception.

that no word is ever the thing it represents, except perhaps, for the word "word" itself.

that most else i believe, is based not on belief, nor the words of others, but upon my own direct personal observation.

i believe that we live in a much more wonderful and interesting universe then any organized belief gives it credit for either.

 

The Jesus movement moves me the era of the 60s down Belmont church changing lives with music and love.
wish more churches would demonstrate that kind of passion today.
My favorite song would be controversial in all churches but it is by Todd Agnew called My Jesus and it is a true reflection of my own relationship with Jesus Christ.
The only other religioun I relate with but could not conform to was the Mennonite church because of the sincere pure compassion they showed my family .

 

Beliefs are a bit like socks. OK for a while, but you have to change them now and then or they end up getting rigid.

 

The least is to question and challenge them once in a while. You might end up with your beliefs strenghtened, or you could realize that another truth speaks more to you and you can't pretend to believe what you thought you believed anymore.

 

I have one life live it hard. Went to catholic school growing up, just never really made sense. Religion is a way to control the populous.

 

Thank you for being honest my friend,I think thats important!!

 

Shamanism, but it's largely illegal and wrongly at that. I get pretty sick of family that preaches how much they believe in God and they have no real death experiences. I've died enough to know something exists, wonderful things and places. But people force this shit called religion into every law. If people would awaken they would realize how illegal religious laws are. They are so afraid that their ways of life will be outlawed. The institution of marriage, legalizing cannabis".....these are all threats to the weak and uneducated religious mind

 

spiritual but not necessarily religious. It's less of an "I believe in ...." and more of a "I like the idea/am open to the idea of ...."

 

Non-religious, militant anti-theist.

 

The hollow tip bullet.

 

Sounds like a serious religious belief...

 

Sounds more like an antireligious belief

It makes sense to me if one is not part of one religion but is interested in spirituality to appreciate all the good things religion may has to offer. People that are anti religious are often not really interested in what a religion could have to offer to them (which on itself is fine), they just seem to have made their minds up and condemned it all as bad and treacherous. When they do so it is often a clear oversimplification (this seems not really useful in any way, except to defend their own rigid stance on/against religion)