I'm not into organized religion all that much. It's always seemed way too controlling and close-minded. I just try to be a good person day to day and deal with whatever comes to me. I like to believe in Karma.
Besides, I have my own moral code, I don't need to live by God's or anyone elses

I'm a Lay Buddhist

spaghetti monster=richard dawkins reference

No religion can define my beliefs exactly.

yes, your point is?

Actually, Richard Dawkins just uses it quite often in his speeches, it wasn't created by him.

i wasn't trying to make a point...

pastafarianism is a great religion... lol
it made up and stupid, but the gospel of the flying spaghetti monster is so fricking funny... lol :

it was made up by Bobby Henderson...

good 'ole FSM and WWAPD (what would a pirate do?)

yeh
its also good to know that people your age and stuff have the same beliefs
its awesome

Everything shit 'cause religions.

I'm jewish

*waits for somebody who's half receptive to pick up on this*

Pastafarianism is just as legitimate as Islam, Christianity, or any other religion.

Good Song

at least in my religion, the story is that satan actually first held a position as a temptor... he'd see how commited to God people really were. kind of like a judge of people's morality, so he wasn't technically really an angel...

but idk- i personally don't really believe that any of that's anything but mythic veracity... ppl make up stories about satan, so they can have someone to personify evil and temptation. as far as why that evil exists is because we believe that God gave us the right to free choice, and as a result of people's decisions, evil exists. God wants us to be able to make decisions that bring us closer to him. satan's really just a manifestation of people's ideas about why evil exists in the world.

Religion is not a bad thing... it is bad people who do bad thing not religions.. religions are ideas and beliefs.. they do not have the mind or power to start wars, kill, hate or fly planes. it is the evil of people who do those things... people need to take responsibility now and accept that and stop blaming beliefs systems which have been known to do good and give hope and happiness to millions..


spaghetti monster is one of Dawkins' biggest contradictions a man who believes paley false partially on the grounds the universe is nothing like a watch has managed to compare God and omnipotent, omniscient, omni-benevolent being to a monster made up of a pasta.. if anything can be considered absurd and misleading it is not religion it is the views he holds which seem to change book by book and cancel out the one before... he needs to stick to science.. hes too bitter for a biasless religious debate.

Religion is man made to keep the masses in check what i have is faith in something greater than i am...

Wow thats quite Marxist...lol... But there is a point there.

I'm a Methodist Christian. My dad's a minister and stuff but I'm not very sure I want to call myself a Christian. I kind of want to travel the world and learn all the different religions. Then make my own choice.

Right now I'm working on creating my our religion.

I'm LDS.

I just got back from church. good times.

I havent gone to church in weeks, i think i need to.

Once again, the spaghetti monster is not Dawkins' but that aside, could you please re-write this so it makes more sense?

Okay, this took me a year to figure out O.o I am agnostic.

Also, to compare to you guys up there, I haven't gone to church on my own accord ever in my life.

we prayed 6 times in assembly at school today

I think the long and boring hours spent in temple over the years has caused me to become Agnostic. The same goes for my brother.
I just always thought that there can't be any possible way that there was or is a higher power that created and controls everything
Eh.... whatever
Go Jews!

I was sitting at a bus stop the other day and some old chicks like "You excited about christmas" "Nah I'm athiest" "I thought you might be"

i thought i was an atheist. but i'm not

i have trouble believing in god.

my old school used to be 35% Oriental children, 10% Saudi Arabian and 15% Other nationality

I never said it was his idea. i said it was one of his contradictions.

wait, were the other 40% white?

Oh, when you said "Dawkins' " I took it in the possessive form, both contradiction and idea. Either way, care to explain that whole post a bit better?

Same.

Religion confuses the hell out of me. I'm supposed to be Catholic but I don't believe in anything that the religion stands for. Sometimes I believe in God, sometimes I don't.....I don't know what to believe in anymore!

How can you sometimes believe and sometimes not?

Its hard to explain but the best example I can give is that my dad has cancer...I pray to God hoping that he'll be alright but sometimes I think how can there be a god if he lets things like this happen. Know what I mean? I suppose deep down I do believe in god but sometimes I just feel really angry with him.

Me neither, we used to be forced to go on wednesdays when I was at school. It sucked, me and my friends used to sit as near to the back as possible and talk or replace what the priest was saying with rude words

What a rude bitch. I'm an athiest as well.

Oh yeh, I know what you mean.
So you generally do believe in God, but sometimes, in hard moments, you have some doubts about it. I get it.
And I'm sorry about your dad

I'm agnostic, though agnostics and atheists are pretty much in the same category, though I still like Christmas, I just leave out the religious aspects.

I don't know what I believe in.
It all confuses me, to be honest.


So in a sense I guess that makes me, agnostic?
I normally label myself as 'Bleh', however.

Thank God I'm Agnostic :]

Agnostics and Atheists have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

I'm not a religious person, but I like some of the psalms and I like being in church. I don't know, but it gives me this weird feeling of peace and stillness. Hard to explain. And I like christian funerals. Not that I like funerals like "wohoo yay someone is dead", no, more like that's how I think I want to be buried.

Don't they both have the same belief though? or non-belief rather.

Agnostics believe there might be a god but aren't sure.
Athiests believe there isn't a god at all.

So they are kind of similar.