What is your religion

"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion."
-- Abraham Lincoln

 

Sleep

 

Never heard that quote before, I like it.

 

Rockets, Dave, Beer.

Not necessarily in that order.

Seriously, grew up church of Christ, but have a creeping suspicion that I may end up Catholic.

 

Somebody forgot to put "agnostic" in that poll.

 

Seventh-Day Adventist...Christian.

mostly because of my parents. i'm not really one anymore, but their beliefs tend to be closest to mine, probably because of growing up in the church.

 

Raised Pentecostal, although due to our physical distance from the church I had more friends outside of the pentecostal faith. Nowadays I I am probably one of the most morally repugnant people you'd ever want to meet

I voted other

 

Snake Handler

 

Hinduism - Live a good life, pray to Chrisna, pray to Vishnu, pray to whoever. Karma helps Brahman make up his mind to what you are going to come back as. Read the Bhagavad-Gita, study the Vedas.

Buddhism - 4 Fold Plan, 1.) Life is suffering. 2.) Suffering is caused by desire 3.) By elimnating desire, suffering ceases. 4.) Enlightenment can be achieved by following the 8 fold plan. Sounds a little like a big denial of that which is human nature to me. I do think the Mahayana Buddhists (Which includes Ch'an or Zen) have a better understanding than the others.

Confucianism - Rules are good, Confucius was a pretty smart guy, and I don't think Confucianism is really even much of a "religion" at all. You make choices, you follow a certain path, maybe read some I Ching stuff.

Taoism - **** the system. Lao-Tzu was a pretty cool guy. He said "Hey **** you guys I'm leaving" then he writes this Tao Te Ching thing in like 2 days leaves it with some kid and goes away forever.

Christianity - Accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior, obey God... Read the Bible and pray for guidance, Go to church. Sounds so easy.

Judiasm - Same as Christianity accept no Jesus stuff, and throw in the Torah and the customs.

Islam - The ultimate in monotheism, Mohammad sure caused quite a ruckus. I found it fascinating how he went from the town looney to damn near Emporer of the East. It has a lot of similarities to Christianity and Judaism yet remains the most opposed. 192 times the al-Qu'ran speaks of peace and mentions death and destruction and violence about 17 times. Yet it does include things like "Take them out and kill them if they don't convert" which is a bit extremist.

 

I was going to respond to the last post but my response would've gotten it moved to the D & D.

 

I'm Agnostic...

 

it did anyway, good job hitler.

 

former atheist, now Christian

 

I was just presenting the general overview of religions, not arguing about them. Oh well.. have at it boys.

 

email me.

 

Naw I think of myself more as Stalin.

 

I just have not found a religion that hits my spiritual tuning fork. I discussed what I believe briefly in this thread.

I am extremely spiritual, but not religious at all.

 

I am a presbyterian in a denomination that is described as "Reformed Evangelical." I believed in God from as far back as I can remember but I wouldn't say I was a Christian before late high-school. For several years I tried to avoid the PCA(Presbyterian Church of America) and searched for another denomination with a theology that I could agree with. When we moved to Houston JV was helping me look for a church and we wound up in the PCA again.

My mother is a nominal Christian. My father was in seminary when my parents met and he was ordained in the Reformed Church of France which is fairly similar to the PCA. Growing up I attended the Episcapol church for a while and a PCUSA church. My father is no longer a minister but he does teach apologetics amoung other subjects.

 

I'm an agnostic secular humanist Liberal Democrat. In other words, other.




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