What are your religious beliefs?

[mw2xboxplayer]

To grasp a further understanding of the religious variety mixed through out this forum, I would like to construct a thread where you can post which religion you follow. Also, you may include why you choose to believe in that religion.

Atheism is also considered a valid 'belief' in this thread, as it is the belief in no higher power.

Please keep this thread free of debate, I would like to keep it as on task as possible.


I'll kick off the thread, stating I'm an atheist based on religion's lack of logical evidence.

[Ancient Aliens]

Hey man, turn this into a poll so that we can have a comprehensive analysis of religious belief in the R&R

I am an atheist, through and through, for the same reasons you posited.

[mw2xboxplayer]

Hey man, turn this into a poll so that we can have a comprehensive analysis of religious belief in the R&R

Due to the sheer number of religious beliefs, I would prefer to refrain from utilizing a poll. There have been many threads that have tried using polls in the past, and they are always closed because someone complains that their religion wasn't included in the poll.

However if the majority of the beliefs are concentrated into a few religions, I'll consider adding a poll.

[Ancient Aliens]

Due to the sheer number of religious beliefs, I would prefer to refrain from utilizing a poll. There have been many threads that have tried using polls in the past, and they are always closed because someone complains that their religion wasn't included in the poll.

However if the majority of the beliefs are concentrated into a few religions, I'll consider adding a poll.

Good point. The last thing this thread needs to devolve into is "Why is religion X more important than my religion, Y?"

[Jingo Eugene]

I have some very basic beliefs tbh.

1. I am a sinner.
2. I cannot save myself from my sins.
3. Jesus Christ is God.
4. Jesus Christ came to earth, lived a perfect life and died on the cross to save me from my sins and bring me into heaven.
5. I believe that when I die, I will go to heaven to join Jesus.
6. I believe that one day, whether near or far, Christ will return to bring all of the faithful into heaven with him.

These are the core beliefs of Christianity, while it is a quickly made list, I think it accurately sums up the core beliefs of Christians.

[Lord Zhang Ku]

Well here is my strange mishmash of beliefs, which don't remain constant. And some of them don't even correspond to my religious group(Judaism)
1. Somewhere out there is God.
2. He probably punishes evil people.
3. As a jew, if I am not good enough to move on I will be reincarnated.(this seemed strange to me when I found out this was a jewish thing)
4. We are all God's children, regardless of religious opinion.
5. Everyone who is good enough to move on gets their version of heaven.
6. If you get to go to heaven, you can visit all other heavens.
7. There is no hell, only soul obliteration for people like Hitler and such.
8. People who preach that their religion is superior to all others do not get into heaven.

There are many more of my personal weird beliefs, but hey, here's a sample.

[Col. Tartleton]

Well here is my strange mishmash of beliefs, which don't remain constant. And some of them don't even correspond to my religious group(Judaism)
1. Somewhere out there is God.
2. He probably punishes evil people.
3. As a jew, if I am not good enough to move on I will be reincarnated.(this seemed strange to me when I found out this was a jewish thing)
4. We are all God's children, regardless of religious opinion.
5. Everyone who is good enough to move on gets their version of heaven.
6. If you get to go to heaven, you can visit all other heavens.
7. There is no hell, only soul obliteration for people like Hitler and such.
8. People who preach that their religion is superior to all others do not get into heaven.

There are many more of my personal weird beliefs, but hey, here's a sample.

Yeah I also thought it was funny how Judaism is basically Buddhism cosmologically only with a God and his laws instead of Dhamma. Judaism actual fits pretty well with most ancient beliefs which have a reincarnation element which makes Christianity that much more of an aberration.

[Col. Tartleton]

Anyhow, I'm totally willing to believe in noncorporeal beings and other planes of existence and I think we will eventually discover them. However I don't think that counts as evidence of the divine and I don't want to worship anything. I think odds are death is death (obliteration of the consciousness), although I am willing to believe if demonstrated and studied that consciousness might proceed from the very stuff of reality or somehow only be linked umbilically to the physical self. In which case our mind is essentially eternal in nature.

But I'm basically a show me the car facts kind of guy, and even proof of "gods" is not reason to worship them.

[Hilarion]

Christian.

[XSHEAFFEYX]

Well here is my strange mishmash of beliefs, which don't remain constant. And some of them don't even correspond to my religious group(Judaism)
1. Somewhere out there is God.
2. He probably punishes evil people.
3. As a jew, if I am not good enough to move on I will be reincarnated.(this seemed strange to me when I found out this was a jewish thing)
4. We are all God's children, regardless of religious opinion.
5. Everyone who is good enough to move on gets their version of heaven.
6. If you get to go to heaven, you can visit all other heavens.
7. There is no hell, only soul obliteration for people like Hitler and such.
8. People who preach that their religion is superior to all others do not get into heaven.

There are many more of my personal weird beliefs, but hey, here's a sample.

Yes, but you forgot the ones they don't want people to hear, such as

9. If you do not beleive in "god"/our "god", you will burn in hell.
10. If you are homosexual/lesbian, or tolerent of "sodomites", you will burn in hell - because god hates sods.
11. Pretty much if you don't do as we say without question - you will burn in hell.
12. God loves everyone


Hmm, charming group - a bit hypocritical and immoral though...

EDIT: #12 is excluded from what they don't want you to hear.

[Lord Zhang Ku]

Yes, but you forgot the ones they don't want people to hear, such as

9. If you do not beleive in "god"/our "god", you will burn in hell.
10. If you are homosexual/lesbian, or tolerent of "sodomites", you will burn in hell - because god hates sods.
11. Pretty much if you don't do as we say without question - you will burn in hell.
12. God loves everyone


Hmm, charming group - a bit hypocritical and immoral though...

EDIT: #12 is excluded from what they don't want you to hear.

Dude. What the heck? I have some friends who are either atheists and homo/bisexuals. I hope you are being sarcastic. numbers 9 through 11 are false for me. 12 is a sorta kinda in my book.

[O.Chrysostomos]

I'm agnostic and tolerant of any faith that doesn't impinge upon my freedoms apart from one insidious faith that teaches in its core inequality and border-line misogyny.

I was brought up an Orthodox Christian but while I don't believe or have faith I still celebrate the main holidays.

[basics]

" I'll kick off the thread, stating I'm an atheist based on religion's lack of logical evidence. "

mw2xboxplayer,

And I'll kick off by saying that I am an experimental believer in Father, Son and Holy Ghost the evidence of which is in my heart.

[Himster]

I'm a suspended theist. I believe there is a mover in our universe, but mainstream gods in modern culture just don't make sense to me anymore/yet.

[Winter]

Every morning I wake up and make a sacrifice to the porcelain god that lives in my bathroom. Other than that, not much.

[MaximiIian]

I love how I'm gone for four months, and when I return, the exact same crap is being threaded about. I'd hoped for a little bit of variety, folks.

Anyway, to answer the poll- hard polytheist, and that's all I really know anymore.

[Lord Romanus III]

Totally still against the idea of any organized religion or a caring God existing at all. I am an atheist, although I cannot entirely reject that something may exist. I also see no reason for believing in something that cannot be proven yet or at all.

[XSHEAFFEYX]

I am being sarcastic, but I seriously have met >christians< who actually are like that... Im not insulting Judaism (well i hope not anyway)
And they really can be bad.

[Prodigal]

I follow the Truth, I am an Orthodox Christian.

[Col. Tartleton]

I follow the Truth, I am an Orthodox Christian.

Even you must admit that's a rather arrogant statement.

"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but through me."

It's one thing to be a Prophet. It's another thing to be a snob.