That’s tragic, but not too surprising. Thanks for the link.
I am Roman Catholic. I go to church once-twice a year. I don’t believe in god but I do believe that world peace and happiness can be achieved only by religion. If we would all obey 10 commandments, world would be a better place.
That’s funny because many wars throughout history have been started in the name of religion.
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Yes. But 2 biggest wars in human history (WW 1 and WW2) were not fought because of religion.
Yes, that fact is true.
i guess God is the only one who knows what i went through.
Brought up Jain. But now an atheist.
Raised Christian, but studied many religions. Now my religion is no religion. I do choose to follow the native american belief in The Spirit That Moves Within All Things (most humans have labeled as god/s in religions) and the spirit world that we pass into once we leave the physical world.
Spending so much of my life alone with my thoughts. When I think of a certain religious belief I get on Wikipedia to see what religion it fits with the best. My beliefs are a hodge pogo of different religions. No religion I believe completely in. I guess that makes me a utilitarian. Something I think is strange is the first Buddah book Tao Te Ching talks about not worrying about life because your going to heaven any way. Not reincarnation. Or maybe the book was not translated accurately.
The Tao te Chang is part of Taoism. Buddhism is a completely different religion.
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I don’t believe in the mythological god, at least for this time we live in, I do believe in the scientific god, where he rules by science not by chaos
I’m a Muslim. Difficult with schizophrenia to keep up with all the laws and prayers, but it does give my life meaning and structure, and I love the belief in One God
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i believe in god. I’m lutheran.
Im overly rational. No religion. I kinna like Odin and Thor, wish I was a viking.
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Christian here, the relief I do get from Sz is definitely God given because the “voices”/tv is always sure to let me know!
hey i’m a buddhist and daoist and here’s how that teaching goes,
you are the universe, but because of time you think you are a separate person;
anyway, if you just attach to the material world, they say your fate is
after you die, that universe that you really are will just
keep getting stuck as a creature, again and again,
till you figure out who and what you are,
and that’s how we are to escape from the wheel of birth and death,
so the good news for me is,
i can’t be reborn, cause i figured it out, i’m not here, i’m gone.
and as far as heaven, you build your own,
and live there every day.
on your altar;
in your thoughts;
in your magical deeds.
the scientific god is just a man who gave up trying to understand himself or the universe,
and instead decided to carve it up like a butcher and try to claim power and dominion over it,
the nut,
cause he had no understanding what he was dealing with,
yet he is quite the fiery demon so to some extent nature had to sit up and dance to the tune he called,
which of course is gonna piss her the hell off,
so you got this guy with a beard sitting over the test tube of human knowledge,
saying that’s the only way to live, the american way of life is unnegotiable,
meanwhile the pissed off universe up and left, nobody left down there in the test tube but a bunch of dead people.
so in this modern and somewhat degenerate age, this “kali yuga”, we learn to climb up
\back up and out of that test tube of human knowing that the parents pulled us down at age two cause of their fears,
we climb up and live with the two year olds and the shamans and the poet philosophers and the schizophrenics and the trees and the deer and the whales and the fish and the stars and the black holes in red shift space, and just pursue inner nature and destiny and search for mystery and wonder.
then if you happen to have this strong component of madness,
you can transform it from a mental irritant into a mental salve,
by directing it toward universal salvation.
-wonderdonkey
I belong to no specific religion, but when I lived in my auto over 780 days in America I came up with my own religion in which the God, AGOD, has too sides ATOK (good) and ALOK (evil). I visited many religous places such as synagogues in Miami and LA, the Mormon church in Beverly Hills, Scientology in Hollywood and many other places. My favorite place to spend my Sunday mornings was to stay at the Ancient Spanish Monestary in North Miami. I have visited temples such as one in Portugal where all walls were covered by sceletons and skulls of Christian martyrs. I have been on the top of Vatican and visited Saint Basil’s church next to the Kremlin in Moscow. I believe in the concept of the White Lodge that unites all religions and was written about by Madame Blatavsky in the 19th century during her travels in the world. While I lived in my auto in Key West I met some Buddhist monks and so on. In Finland I visited often one Eastern Orthodox monastery near me.
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Why would you think that god needs to understand, you can’t imagine something beyond our human limitation, then how to assume something about the infinite powers of a creator not a creature.
I did lost more than half of my religion because the change belief that I had about the scientific god, but the problem is not with my religion but the problem was in the way I understood my religion…I need time to re adjust.
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