What is your religion?

[Oneironaut]

As to the boredom question, I agree, heaven would become an agonizing place to live. Especially if hell also exists; imagine having to spend eternity knowing some of your loved ones are being tortured for eternity and there's nothing you can do about it, just because they committed sins and didn't repent.

Anywho, in an eternal heaven, you would eventually experience everything there is to experience. Then you would experience it all over again. And again. And again. For all eternity. Experiencing everything there is to experience over and over and over again. You'd be begging God to end your cursed existence once and for all.

We are temporary creatures. We die and then we're dead forever. Let's not forget that it's a good thing.

[shoi]

im not sure... agnostic... but i think the teachings of buddah are very good.... more of a philosophy than religion, and it doenst compete with science or teach hate

[intrepidus6]

sanguinekane, may I ask what "sanguine" means to you?

[dryst]

I don't exactly have a religion..if anything i guess i'd be atheist. But i do believe there is some sort of higher force/being but i have absolutely no idea what it is. It is probably some kind of energy.
I do however think that believing in a god is rather dumb..it's basically a way of looking for an easy answer to an impossible ideal. I don't think people should limit themselves to 1 view. We as humans can't really comprehend existence..so we make up religions to try and somehow explain it.

HUMANS MADE UP GOD, NOT GOD MADE HUMANS!

thatd make u agnostic...

[JMRinFLA]

Pagan. I beieve the Earth has it's own life force and that Gods are found only in the natural world.

[Mr.Jesus]

i was born protestant, but ive only been to church like once and i didnt like it so i didnt go back and i dont really belive in it anyways. so yeah.

[IanCurtisWishlist]

I was born Christian and gave up Christ when I wanted to become Jewish. Then I got tired of reading about religious texts and realized that people have been contemplating the very same thing , fighting over the very same thing for thousands of years. So I've abandoned conventional religion altogether, because I don't believe it takes belief in something unseen to find the kingdom of heaven.

My personal beliefs tend to be Buddhist for the simple reason that I feel we can detach from suffering with the right kind of attitude. I reject Christianity because I know the scriptures have been changed, manipulated and perverted--not to mention all the atrocities committed by Christians and Catholics over the years. It is basically a confidence trick--to submit to the will of Jesus is submitting to the will of church. The Church , before it was the nice friendly place where you could get saved , was just another word for political ruler. The church told everybody what to do, how to do it, told the people of the Pope's "papal infalibility". To top it all off--to ensure that you do whatever they say, they falsify a story of how you will burn in hell (literately feeling your flesh burning) forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever, should you choose to reject Jesus Christ as a savior (thus rejecting the church's form of mind control over fearful people).

As history proves it, the church (and most religious institutions) have been used as a tool to control everybody. We see this in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as well as other worldly religions.

So, as it is so well-worded and spoken by Eve Libertine of Crass, "I'll make no subscription to your paradise". Bravo! We don't need people telling us what is right and pure, when the very people telling us what to do are out molesting our boys, fighting wars, suicide bombing, jihading, creating dogma which only hinders the progress and potential of this world.

It's not that I don't believe in a divine god, I just don't believe what I've been told my whole life. If I meet my creator when I die, then I will thank him for giving me such a mind that allowed me to think for myself--for allowing me to reject the heresey spread by the majority of people.

Relgion--it's just another form of mind control.

[intrepidus6]

RAmen to what IanCurtisWishlist said!

[IanCurtisWishlist]

RAmen to what IanCurtisWishlist said!

Ramen? Do you mean the delicious prepackaged treat known as... *TOP RAMEN*??

[sanguinekane]

sanguinekane, may I ask what "sanguine" means to you?

Optimistic, cheerful, vibrant, full of life. Though I do realise it has other definitions.