What are your religious beliefs?

Golden · 2023-07-31T03:21:29+00:00

If you have stumbled upon this side of the internet, I assume you have interesting and fringe stances on many things. What about your stance on religion? Do...

Commander Grausam

Sunni Islam. I can't say I fit into a specific school of thought any more specific.
Until I was well into my teens, I didn't care much about faith. I didn't pray the majority of the time, I'd fast on Ramadan but that's about the most religious thing about me. It isn't even about whether I believed or not. I knew there was a God, but I didn't really care much. I suppose I could've been called an "apantheist", but that isn't to say I was completely and utterly apathetic to religion as a whole. The only real reason I did fast at the time was because I felt like I had to, it was a gut feeling I suppose.

I've become more religious over time. This is probably TMI but I'm schizo (I don't know how else to say it, being that the word has lost all its meaning in the face of wacky cyberpunk Tumblr art and surreal fashwave edits, I was diagnosed and all). I believed God spoke to me, and I believed that He told me that no matter what I do, I am beyond His mercy, and I'll end up in Hell no matter what. What didn't help was my sleeping schedule and near complete isolation. The only people I spoke to in my real life were my parents. When you're in that position, having dropped off the face of the Earth, it forced me to contemplate it all. I started taking meds, I started praying, I started truly believing in God. That's really it, frankly.

Ross_R

agoraoptera
What is the book that the chant comes from? Some kind of kemetism thing? Interesting chant, though definitely one of the less authentically egyptian things I've saw.
I myself liked to call myself a baha'i, though I've never met one, just liked their views. Though it seems like they are strictly monotheistic, and I cannot define myself as such. I think we will never know how much divine beings there are. I just believe that someone is out there - though he might be not alone at all.

agoraoptera

Ross_R
Oh it's not meant to be authentic. The book itself is fiction, it's one of the three books in the Illuminatus! trilogy (I don't remember which book because I read it all as an omnibus). The trilogy dabbled in a wide spread of beliefs, but there's a constant undertone of irreverence spliced with true sincere belief. As mentioned, it's presented as a linguistic tool to affect one's mindset; the particular semantic content is less important and you could substitute any deity into the chant. You need only respect what you invoke, I think, and respect your own act of invokation.

Ross_R

agoraoptera
Interesting. I guess, any prayer works like that? I've recently started to pray daily at least once, usually before the food, and I find that the moment of prayer calms my mind quite alot. Just a moment of sincere conversation and confession, but it works wonderful.

WastedBucket

I'd say I'm somewhere within the realm of Christian, along Protestant lines. Things haven't really worked out well for me with going to any churches and getting into contact with those more knowledgeable about the faith for me to learn from, however.

tables

I would probably describe myself as an apatheist i.e. God existing or not is irrelevant. I've been interested in religion/theology for a long time and so I've read a lot on many different religions, and I would find it too restrictive to devote myself to one belief or another and so my personal beliefs are from lots of different places. I think religion is important whether or not you believe in one or not. Whether God or gods are real or not doesn't mean anything on their overall presence and, therefore, influence. At times I find my thoughts and beliefs on things very disparate and varied and so I find it hard to neatly surmise them.

SorbianSwitzerland

Due to where i've lived and traveld most of my life i've spent the most time at the Swedish Church, and the Srpska Pravoslavna Crkva (Serbian orthodox church, SPC). So I would call myself a non-denominational christian. I imagine I would have become muslim or jewish if I were born under other circumstances, so I don't feel the need to be so militiant about faith. I treat it mostly as a direct relationship with God, and something that informs me how to treat everybody not a select group of people.
Like the people in my private life, faith is what motivates me to treat myself and others with respect and deal with the harsh reality we all live under. Is hard to find justice or a reason to live in mere ideology. Faith is what fuels my willingness to live on and not succumb to self hatred. I found comfort in having blind faith in something, since it felt right and had a postive impact in my life. I did not like myself most of my life, so any reason to keep on going is good enough for me. This site has the views I most align myself with.

SirSchmoopyofAwesometon

Was raised baptist, and kinda became a fedora tipper from then on.

Woland

I'm agnostic, functionally atheist. I could never describe myself as fully atheist since I can't ever fully know whether or not there is a god, but the lack of any evidence towards the divine leads me to live my life as if there isn't one.
I go back and forth as to whether or not there's something wrong with faith-based beliefs, since I think they have a habit of setting a precedent for believing one's emotions over reality to deleterious effects, but ultimately it's something that at its best brings peace and comfort to a lot of people while being relatively harmless so I have trouble condemning it entirely.

Lumeinshin

Interesting to read all of the religious views of the user-base. Theres quite a variety of views and reasons for them
They are quite fascinating and I enjoy learning about the variations on each sect/denomination, although I have to say I cant commit a lot of them to memory well. Definitely more of a me problem than anything else
Religiously, I am whatever you think makes me cooler. 😎

Fimm

I'm internally conflicted.

On paper I'm an Evangelical Lutheran, but I'm not really convinced that my church is the most correct interpretation of Christianity.
I think that there are clues that point torwards a god or some kind of creator. Like the fact that there are certain universal moral values that are appreciated by all human cultures.
But I'm also pretty sure those values could have also developed naturally as they give the group that holds them an evolutionary advantage. It's the same thing with nature. The fact that that the world has "patterns" which "rhyme" alot (for example covergent evolution or how history generally repeats itself) can be taken as a sign of intelligent design but, to me, natural evolution is an equally likely possibility.

So I guess you could say I'm Agnostic.

MrBanana

I'm a Christian. I've been to church a few times and found it to be a great experience, although I haven't been recently.
I've been looking at all the denominations to see where I fit, although I haven't quite figured it out yet. Regardless, it has been good for me to learn about them and their differences.
Everyone in my life is some variant of agnostic so it is something i've looked at on my own

Fimm I find it hard to deal with some differences between the teachings of the church you go to and your own beliefs. When I was in church last I found the Priest was accidentally framing things through his political lense, referring to current events at the time. He had the opportunity to use it as a soapbox and took it IMO. He seems to be a good man so I dont hold it super against him but it did make me roll my eyes.
What do you do at the moment? Do you just try to disregard the parts that make you raise your eyebrows and keep the rest?

Taka

I was baptized as a lutheran, but my life has been secular, for the most part.

I call myself an "evangelical agnostic," because I do believe we live in a created universe, but I also believe we will never know who created it.

Fimm

MrBanana
Me disagreeing with my church isn't a big deal to me since it still upholds the most crucial doctrines of the faith. And I can live with it because I also realize that we live in an imperfect world. All institutions, even those who claim to be acting on the behalf of something higher and absolute, will be imperfect. It's just the way it is.
Like light shining through dirty glass.

Naziri

I was raised in a Sunni Sufi Muslim family. In my teens I was a follower of Shariati but since then I've become a lot more traditional and moved away from political radicalism. Archaeology is my hobby so I deal with religion a lot but I prefer talking about religious history and the past rather than anything to do with the present. Discussion about religion today feels really messed up and poisonous so I normally don't bother and keep to myself.

Toy Freddy

I'm christian.

Edo

I always described myself as a christian but truth be told, I don't feel all that close to a lot of catholics in my country, especially because they are more obsessed with politics (and especially the reactionnary one, because God forbids christians actually helping people) and this sort of stuff than actually living by the word of the Lord.

foox

I was raised atheist, as in nobody told me anything about religion, so that's what I defaulted to ig. I'm not here saying that I don't think that there is no god and every religion is wrong, just that its never affected my life and I find it bizarre that an almighty god would allow our world to exist, with all of its problems (again not trying to say anyone is wrong, this is just my view). However, if I had to pick between any religion, it would probably go to the Hindus, since something must be right if its the oldest still practiced religion. Sometimes I do wish that I was religious, for those days where I really need a ray of hope that religious people can just pull out of nowhere, like to start praying and tell yourself that it'll all be OK, and actually believe it.

agoraoptera

foox
Question for you and anyone who wasn't raised with a religion.
What was it like when you learnt about the concept of sin? Do you feel like you grok it?

foox

agoraoptera
What I understand of the concept of sin (I assume you mean the cardinal sins) is that they are the basic moral guidelines set in the Bible. I do understand the value of teaching people to not be lustful greedy sloths with the threat of eternal suffering in hell, I feel that atheists who've never had biblical teaching aren't sinning left and right, rather that everyone knows how a POS behaves and nobody wants to be one.

gingermilk

agoraoptera
I am raised without a religion as well. The concept "sin", in the biblical definition, is not that different from a secular perspective if not specifically referring to violation of "God's laws" but rather general principles on how to be a decent person. I would not feel guilty for rebelling against or disobeying God by committing sins, but I would feel guilty for causing harm to myself or others by losing self control, which are the most direct consequence of my actions.

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