I was recommended this forum because I was told there are other religious people here who are also fond of the back door.
Personally I am a Christian, and if there are others here, it would be lovely to meet you and chat about our common interest from our common background, haha.
God bless you.
I am! I know there’s a couple others of various religious flavors. We’re not always the most active on here lot though.
No I imagine most of them are off with their spouses in their marriage beds, haha.
Or they are busy with children.
I think on this forum there are many interested in the theology behind faith, more than being faithfull themselves.
That’s certainly true of some, which is almost more fascinating really.
Is it? I mean, you have religion as concept popping up everywhere. You even have virtually identical subsets inside of religions all over the world, all of them developing independently of each other. They all have a claim to truth, so to speak, and some claim to be true at the exclusion of others.
So either I assume it’s all a strange coincidence religion happens and keeps happening, ignore it and go on with my life, or I look into it. Not being on team x actually helps, if you ask me. I have no stake in what I find being true or not. But if it is, I learn.
Devout atheist here. Religion confuses me!
What parts? Most of my friends have been atheists, and I love discussing religion with them and what their views are.
I find the belief in an omniscient, altruistic higher being whose existence cannot be proven. I guess faith in such a being, while I understand how people obtain solace from their beliefs, it just doesn’t make any sense to me.
I come from a very academic family and am very academically minded. (I am pursuing a doctorate in physics) and my faith is entirely based on apologetics and reason. I have a very limited emotional range (I have autism) so unlike most Christians I have very little emotional reasons to believe in God; I do however realise I am not the norm.
I believe your first sentence is missing an end part?
Technically nothing can be proven outside of mathematics, although interestingly mathematics is one argument for the existence of an infinite being.
How do you believe existences started happening?
Yes sir. 100% Christian here. My gf is Buddhist. We have fun Anal and ass to mouth regardless.
You are not waiting for marriage?
I can’t believe I didn’t see and answer this question. I’m a believer but not attached to a specific religion.
My entire outlook, as well as my profession, is based on logic. Since no one can explain the vastness of the universe, or what ”existed” before its creation, leads me to believe there is something else we have yet to understand.
My wife and I have both experienced paranormal incidents that cannot be explained. My wife experiences far more than I do as she may be more sensitive to detecting this activity. Many of these experiences occurred shortly after the death of a family member.
The notion that only the adherents of a particular religion will find salvation and paradise is counterintuitive. What kind of God would shun a majority of beings simply because they choose the wrong religion?
I was raised Catholic, but I’m no longer actively religious. I practice Buddhist meditation and have a Zen tattoo, but I’m also reluctant to say I’m a Buddhist. I am a philosophy major, though, so I’m always happy to talk about religion and God and stuff.
I studied philosophy at school too.
May I ask why you are no longer practising?
Why would you consider it count-intuitive? I would certainly consider the opposite conclusion to be far more rational.
Ultimately it is up to God what he does with us, there is no standard above him to which he has to conform regarding his treatment of us. All we can do is submit to his will, and if you do not like that there is nothing we can do about it ultimately.
Also how you describe it does not actually match Christian theology with how going to heaven works.
I largely found the praxis I was looking for in other communities, and the metaphysical commitments became a little too hard to swallow.
So you’re saying the child of a Muslim family that grows up Muslim will not be accepted into the kingdom of God simply because his family and he wasn’t of the Christian faith?
My point was that humans of all faiths will be welcome irrespective of a religion they may or may not believe in.
I’m confused… are you suggesting only certain religions are accepted by God or that moral atheists will be rejected by him?
There are some Christian faiths that believe in predestination so actions on earth have no bearing on the destination of an immortal soul. As an atheist, the thoughts of a soul, a higher power or immortality, just bemuses me.