Jonny the Smoke Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "I'm an athiest, I have no religion". > > "What do you believe"? > > "I believe there is not sufficient evidence for > god to justify believing in him/ her/ it". > > > > That's about it really......
Somewhere about halfway between Unitarianism and Buddhism. Since there are no clergy, building upkeep, evangelism costs or scriptures to publish, I gave most of last year's tithing to Haitian relief and some to the local SPCA animal shelter.
Fellowship is a bit on the low end these days -- could use a few more participants at our weekly Krishnamurti study hour.
I belong to no organized religion. I do not believe in any form of the supernatural (including deity, the tooth fairy, the easter bunny, bigfoot, dragons, etc., etc. - I'm still undecided on Satan and Santa for merely for pseudonymous reasons). I lean toward secular humanism to guide my moral outlook on life. I think naturalism is as good as any to explain the knowable. To explain "why" anything exists - I could not care less. I am, and that is enough.
Jackie: I'd say I have a Judeo-Christian view of the world.
Asker: Clarify????
Jackie: I think Jesus lived, but not the way Christians say he did. I don't think he was born of a virgin or walked on water. I think he was an imperfect, influential guy with good intentions who pissed the guys in power. That's what got him killed. People manipulated his story, as a form of controlling and establishing order. He's turning in his grave as we speak, especially over the stunt of a certain man named Joseph Smith...who manipulated a bunch of poor people, who manipulated their children, and so on.
Asker: Do you pray?
Jackie: All the time. Less for myself, and more for those who are worse off than me...including those who have been or will be manipulated by Joseph Smith. I was duped too, but not as bad as many.
Living in Utah for a few years...never have I lived in an area where one of the first questions..."Are you LDS"?...or "What religion are you?"
I can't speak for the heavily Catholic areas in the Northeast, so I'll let someone speak to if that is something that is asked there also, but in the other area, I have lived..(Calif, AZ, Va)...that question was never asked of me...especially by strangers...
Like you will stop being a person and become your job.
It's weird the things we think define us and others.
There's probably some lizard brain thing that causes us to sort and stack to try to make sense of the people we meet, of the things we experience and even of ourselves.
People are too complex to be reduced to such things. To hold on so tightly to these labels suppresses the people we are and our internal lives that would like to be expressed freely.
Southern Reorganized Fundamentalist Orthodox Conservative United Disestablishmentarianism, 1914 Synod II (afternoon session, Building B). There's three of us. We skipped out on the session in Building A. Those people are HERETICS!
My dad was kicked out of the Catholic church when he married his second wife (my mom). I spent my childhood visiting churches with him. We would stay at a church for a few months, then move on. We even attended the Catholic church! I saw that all the flavors or brands of Christian churches were pretty much alike, so I grew up without religious prejudice as far as Christian churches went.
My dad met and married a Mormon woman (third wife) and his spiritual journey ended there.