Beliefs

**trav3ler** · Joined: 14 Aug 2007 Posts: 422 Location: North Bay, CA

Presbyterian carnivore. That pretty much sums up my belief system as pertaining to this thread.
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**Kroikey** · Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 195 Location: UK, Sunderland

My religious/spiritual beliefs can be summed up in this sentence:

We are the Universe experiencing itself.

I have some deep beliefs in what that means, but I wont bog this thread down with it.
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**ParanoidMonkey** · Joined: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 124 Location: SF Bay Area

I'm agnostic, and I believe everyones religion should remain a very personal/spiritual practice. I respect everyone's religion regardless of my beliefs, it's not up to me to decide whether they're right or wrong.
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**Knut** · Joined: 30 Nov 2007 Posts: 379 Location: Miami, CSI

I believe in William Shatner.

**SmellyStuff** · Joined: 12 Dec 2007 Posts: 220

I do not like the idea of organised/mass religion but I will tolerate it as long as you don't force it upon me. As for me, I'm an agnostic but leaning more towards atheism.
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**Archang3L** · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 9:43 am Post subject:

I am a vegetarian myself, but only because I was raised that way. I see nothing wrong with eating meat. Animals eat other animals, it's nature.

I am not religious, but I do believe in God. I just wouldn't call myself a christian/catholic/muslim/whatever.

That's it, really.
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**Ealasaid** · Joined: 14 Nov 2006 Posts: 422 Location: Santa Clara, CA

Hm... depends on how you define belief. I usually say that I don't "believe" in the Gods any more than I "believe" in rocks. I've had enough experiences to know that something is out there and it sure acts a lot like what we usually call the Divine.

I took enough philosophy in college to know that you can't really know anything, though. So here's where I'm at:

I believe that I can't know the world exists.
I believe that I might as well behave as though it does, because that is in my best interest.
I believe that there are things I have interacted with which behave like Gods.
I believe that I might as well behave as though that's what they are, because doing so provides me with tangible benefit and interesting experiences.
I believe that if other entities (people, animals, etc) do, in fact, think and feel as I do, then I should avoid causing unnecessary pain and destruction to them. (I don't take this to the point of vegetarianism because my health would make that a big hassle, but I do eat organic and get my eggs from a friend who raises chickens, etc.)
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**Maozilla** · Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 630 Location: New Jersey

**jisberg13** · Joined: 05 Sep 2007 Posts: 467 Location: Braidwood

I am atheist, and I do things the way i want to,

see i didn't capatalize that i, or that one..
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**BlueTornado** · Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 2175

IN B4 LOCK/DELETION:

I believe that the God of the Bible is the real God.
I believe that Jesus died on the cross and die for our sins.
I believe in Heaven, and the only way to get there is to accept salvation through Jesus by repentance and belief.

I believe that vegetarianism/veganism is only a personal preference and is not required for life.
I believe that we cannot predict the end of the world.

I also have many others, but it would be a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG post and could put me at risk at getting hit with the banstick.
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**Urisma** · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:22 pm Post subject:

I myself am a devout christian, and while I respect the beliefs of others, I can't see why someone would not have some sort of faith that believed in some sort of higher power. I know it sounds narrow-minded, but hear me out.

First of all, I've noticed many people lack a religion due to interpretation of a religion's scripture (since I'm a christian, I shall now be comparing everything to the Bible, God, Jesus, etc. I'm not trying to flame or anything, and if i sound as though I am, I'm sorry). Take the first 7 days. You know, God creates earth, Heaven, light, etc. I've noticed comments (unrelated to this board, in general) along the lines of "Well, if humans were created a couple days after the animals, what happened to all the dinosaurs? They existed millions of years before humans, so this whole 7 day thing is false." Well, if you did your homework, you would know that the bible was written by normal humans years after those 7 days took place. I doubt God was telling Moses "It took 7 days. Exactly. write that down" Instead, Moses had to interpret God's actions, so he put 7 days. I personally believe that those 7 days in reality took hundreds of thousands of years. This is a bit like conflict over the constitution back in the 1700s. The federalists wanted loose interpretation, or the the government could expand and change, even if the constitution didn't grant it specific power or say something specific. Anti Federalists, on the other hand, believed in strict interpretation, taking it word for word. I think that you should be a federalist in regards to religion.

My other point isn't really "Why would you choose religion," its, "Why wouldn't you choose religion?" Let me give you an example.
Lets take an athiest's view point versus a christian's in regards to life after death (I'm not 100% sure, but I believe athiests basically believe no life after death, once you're dead, you're dead)

So say the Athiest is correct about religion, and the athiest and christian both die and cease to exist completely. The christian was never hurt be practicing religion back on earth, but they didn't gain anything for it.

But say the christian is right. The athiest burns in Hell while the christian has eternal life in Heaven. in this case, the Christian did benefit, and the Athiest, for a lack of a better word, loses.

Which one seems more logical? Christian is, from a neutral viewpoint. That's just something to ponder, for anyone who cares.

**Maozilla** · Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 630 Location: New Jersey

**NovaXD** · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 884

Beliefs... what can you say about them really? They are who you are, and that's a really beautiful thing. I'm part of a minor church, by the way, and it's only vaguely Christian.

I believe in a higher power, one God, that the God in the Bible is the same as the God in the Koran, and that He is a being of love. I strive to find Him in my life's journey. I believe Jesus was the Messiah, that he didn't come to die, and that he wasn't God himself.

I believe in acceptance, in total forgiveness. I do not believe in hurting another in anyway; no matter what the specifics are, violence of any kind is wrong.

I believe there is a spiritual world, and in the immortal soul; the comparison of our spiritual life to our life on Earth is comparable to our life on Earth compared to our life in the womb.

I believe in the relationships between mind and body, between a married couple, between mankind and Earth, and between the Universe and God.

There's thousands of things I believe in, the list could go on forever. But the biggest thing I believe in is unity, in ever relationship with everything everywhere. Unity of nations, unity of religions, unity of ideas. Total unity, that's what I strive for. Really, I try to represent my beliefs wherever I go, even on this forum. And above all, I always try to make these words more than just that--words.

Y'know, this is kind of a poll thread, but it's still one of the best topics I've had the joy of replying to.