What religion are you and why do you beleive it

i am an athiest and i constantly get people who have religious beleifs coming to me and trying to tell me i will burn in hell besuse i dont beleive

And i dont understand how they follow a religion with no evidence

what do you guys think why do you belevie against the evidence

Christianity because it is in my bloodline. I do have a choice to refuse to believe in Christ but i don't see any reason why i shouldn't?

I'm Roman Catholic and I believe in it because I was raised with that religion.

Protestant by birth and Athiest by choice.

I personally would be more intrested to find out if anyone is a religion that is not the one they were brought up in.

I'm Roman Catholic and I believe in it because I was raised with that religion.

MrsSolidSnake

Jw do you honestly believe that the Bread turns literally into the body of christ and the wine turns literally into the blood of chirst.

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I'm Roman Catholic and I believe in it because I was raised with that religion.

MattDistillery

Jw do you honestly believe that the Bread turns literally into the body of christ and the wine turns literally into the blood of chirst.

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[QUOTE="MrsSolidSnake"]

I'm Roman Catholic and I believe in it because I was raised with that religion.

hippiesanta

Jw do you honestly believe that the Bread turns literally into the body of christ and the wine turns literally into the blood of chirst.

I was taught to scrutinise everything I was told by using evidence.

Also I wasn't trying to start a fight I was just asking because I know alot alot of people that struggle with this concept. (My girlfriend being one of them) Btw I would hardly call discussing something a hostile act of agression.

islam by birth and belief , it just makes senseMAZ85

I am Atheist Agnostic or vice versa or scratch that, reverse it. Whatever.

[QUOTE="hippiesanta"][QUOTE="MattDistillery"]

Jw do you honestly believe that the Bread turns literally into the body of christ and the wine turns literally into the blood of chirst.

MattDistillery

I was taught to scrutinise everything I was told by using evidence.

Also I wasn't trying to start a fight I was just asking because I know alot alot of people that struggle with this concept. (My girlfriend being one of them) Btw I would hardly call discussing something a hostile act of agression.

I don't have a religion, because I have no reason to assume that any of those belief systems are truthful and veracious enough to warrant my following of their tenets.

im muslim and couldnt be happier

I'm muslim by birth, atheist by choice :)

[QUOTE="MrsSolidSnake"]

I'm Roman Catholic and I believe in it because I was raised with that religion.

MattDistillery

Jw do you honestly believe that the Bread turns literally into the body of christ and the wine turns literally into the blood of chirst.

Honestly, does he even need to dignify his response to such an arrogantly mis-guided question? He's entitled to his own belief, just as you're entitled to yours to believe in absolutely nothing.

Muslim by birth.

Muslim by choice.

happy with it that way.

[QUOTE="hippiesanta"][QUOTE="MattDistillery"]

Jw do you honestly believe that the Bread turns literally into the body of christ and the wine turns literally into the blood of chirst.

I was taught to scrutinise everything I was told by using evidence.

Also I wasn't trying to start a fight I was just asking because I know alot alot of people that struggle with this concept. (My girlfriend being one of them) Btw I would hardly call discussing something a hostile act of agression.

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[QUOTE="hippiesanta"] I'm a Roman Catholic and I was tought and I practice not to insult any religion. Only Hostile people try to start a fightsurrealnumber5

I was taught to scrutinise everything I was told by using evidence.

Also I wasn't trying to start a fight I was just asking because I know alot alot of people that struggle with this concept. (My girlfriend being one of them) Btw I would hardly call discussing something a hostile act of agression.

I've no religion, but I guess I hold atheistic beliefs.

I was born and was let choose my own beliefs, no indoctrination from the cradle for me =]

I'm ambivalent when it comes to this, but my beliefs mostly flicks between moderate deism, pantheism and straight up atheism on different days.

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[QUOTE="hippiesanta"] I'm a Roman Catholic and I was tought and I practice not to insult any religion. Only Hostile people try to start a fightsurrealnumber5

I was taught to scrutinise everything I was told by using evidence.

Also I wasn't trying to start a fight I was just asking because I know alot alot of people that struggle with this concept. (My girlfriend being one of them) Btw I would hardly call discussing something a hostile act of agression.

The only "religion" that I have come close to actually following is Buddhism. Granted, I don't ascribe to "Buddhism" and have issues with some teachings and some sects, but in the end, it would be pretty apt to say that "I am a Buddhist." Though, I definitely am also a secular humanist, staunch atheist (i.e. naturalist) as well as someone who has a great interest in the mystical side of the human mind (i.e. Jung, Kripal and various mystical religious traditions).

I believe there is a god or a conciousness better said, a conciousness represented in nature, the universe, energy, everything. But I hate most of today's institutionalized religions.

My family is traditionally catholic but I hate mostly everything that the Catholoc Church represents.

[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"][QUOTE="MattDistillery"]

I was taught to scrutinise everything I was told by using evidence.

Also I wasn't trying to start a fight I was just asking because I know alot alot of people that struggle with this concept. (My girlfriend being one of them) Btw I would hardly call discussing something a hostile act of agression.

krazykillaz

My own interpretation of Zoroatrianism (more like Mazdayasnism, or "(Ahura) Mazda-worship" since I don't accept the myths surrounding Zoroaster/Zarathushtra, or any of the rituals associated with modern Zoroastrianism).

I haven't figured out exactly what I believe, or why I believe it yet... but I have been quite inspired by the Gathas (which is the first time in my life I have found any religious text inspiring, even most Buddhist texts weren't "inspiring"). What I find funny about the extant tradition though, is how the Parsi community is so fervently against conversion into the religion (despite there being no record of any regulations against it in the Yasna, the liturgical text) and the fact it is leading the religion to extinction (ethnically) and they claim that they don't accept conversion in order to keep the religion "alive". The ironing is quite delicious.

Another ironic thing is that a video game introduced me to the religion (Prince of Persia 2008, had I not looked up "Ormazd" on Wikipedia, I never would have known about it) and my first attempt to learn about the tradition (about this time last year) lead me to write it off as just another "typical monotheism." But now a year later, and after finding a new method of evaluating religions (thanks to Jeffrey Kripal for teaching me the literal form is not usually the "right" or affective form) and finding a good translation of the Gathas (Ali A. Jaffrey, someone abhorred by the Parsi community as a "heretic") has lead me to coming to the point where I want to ascribe to the tradition (in my own way).

foxhound_fox

Anyway, Back on topic.I believe in the glorious Roman Gods (sorry, but i had to put "Glorious" for teh lolz) with Jupiter Optimus Maximus as my patron.

Huh, do you live near a Parsi Community?lordreaven

Atheist by choice, muslim by force!:roll:

i am Muslim by birth and choice.

the reason is that any question that i want answered, i find it in the holy book (Quran) and/or from the Prophet's teachings.

i don't get my answers from people, even from my parents. the Prophet Mohammad excluded.

I consider myself Agnostic, though i grew up with a Christain influence. But as i got older i started quetioning religion more and more and became Agnostic.

I don't consider myself an Atheist, though i am not a beilver either, science has certainly given us a more understanding on how the world and universe work, but like religon, it's still incapable of presenting strong enough evidence to sway me into beilveing that there is absolutly no creator and vice versa.

Quran unedited since it had been written & compiled polarwrath11

Muslim by birth and later choice.

I'm the don't care type.

I beleive but have no affiliation to any group.

[QUOTE="polarwrath11"]Quran unedited since it had been written & compiled foxhound_fox

[QUOTE="krazykillaz"][QUOTE="surrealnumber5"] and yet you claim to be an atheist, where is your scrutiny your evidence? if you need proof one way or the other then you would be agnostic, being an atheist takes just as much faith and as many assumptions as it does to be a theistsurrealnumber5

Atheist by choice, Jewish by culture. HellsAngel2c

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[QUOTE="krazykillaz"]You are mistaken. The burden of proof lies on the person making the claim. Atheism is not a belief that there is no god or gods, it's the lack of belief in them. The two don't mean the same thing.KeitekeTokage

He's an agnostic, if memory serves correctly.

[QUOTE="KeitekeTokage"][QUOTE="surrealnumber5"] a·the·ism   /ˈeɪθiˌɪzəm/ Show Spelled [ey-thee-iz-uhm] Show IPA –noun 1. the doctrine or belief that there is no god. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/atheism um no it is a BELIEF that there is no god, something that would need to be proven as to be an atheist you would have to make that claim,

coolbeans90

He's an agnostic, if memory serves correctly.

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[QUOTE="KeitekeTokage"] Theists like this make me lol. I'm atheist.KeitekeTokage

He's an agnostic, if memory serves correctly.

I agree, as most self described "atheists" that I am aware of tend to merely lack an affirmative belief in a diety. The same for dictionaries. (Oxford notwithstanding) According to some definitions, atheism is an affirmative belief that a deity doesn't exist. Generally these are referred to as "gnostic atheists." (as opposed to agnostic atheists)

I believe in the sun 8)

You are mistaken. The burden of proof lies on the person making the claim. Atheism is not a belief that there is no god or gods, it's the lack of belief in them. The two don't mean the same thing.krazykillaz

[QUOTE="KeitekeTokage"][QUOTE="coolbeans90"]

He's an agnostic, if memory serves correctly.

coolbeans90

I agree, as most self described "atheists" that I am aware of tend to merely lack an affirmative belief in a diety. The same for dictionaries. (Oxford notwithstanding) According to some definitions, atheism is an affirmative belief that a deity doesn't exist. Generally these are referred to as "gnostic atheists." (as opposed to agnostic atheists)