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Old 05-11-2007   #59 (permalink)
Jentsu
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Default Re: What's your religion and why?

I am agnostic in that I believe that it's technically impossible to be 100% for sure that there is a god or not.

I am an atheist in that I do not believe that there is a god. The only possibility for one that I will even consider is along the lines of deism, in that a god created the universe and went off and just was playing with his dick this whole time. Prayer is a silly superstitious belief, and your holy text is probably lying to you. Miracles don't happen, only phenomena for which science is still lacking an explanation and scams. Just because science can't explain it doesn't mean your god did it, nor indeed does it mean that any god did it. It's just that way as determined by the laws of nature and the universe to which everything must hold to. Exceptions to any given law are not truly exceptions, and merely special cases, such as when there are apparent exceptions in human law. Attempting to say that anything that science can't explain at this time must be an act of god is silly, and you're just reaching for a simple explanation rather than working for a real one.

I am all for any religion that is nontheistic, be it Buddhism, Secular Humanism, Yoism, or whatever. Anything else (with the exception of Deism, as stated above) is just silly, and probably brought about upon you by societal pressure, your upbringing, or your lack of understanding followed up by a seeming answer in religion, which led you down a path that you took in because of one silly thing and then followed on to accept because it just came with the package. Another possible reason could be for the comfort factor (opiate of the people etc). Do I really need to go into that one? Seriously.

If you mix and match your theistic religion(s) with others, theistic or not, you've probably noticed that none of them can really say they are the one true religion, because they're all wrong at some point or another. You have taken a step in the right direction.

Apologists, feel free to waste your time on me, but I'd greatly encourage you to instead question your own beliefs, and see where they fail. If you do not succeed in finding failure with your religion, I will be glad to help you out. I will be willing to listen to your arguments for your religion as well as arguments against my own choice of no religion as long as you are willing to listen to my arguments against your religion and indeed against theistic religion in general.

Kiss kiss. Look forward to hearing back from you. :-*
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