What is your religion?

[Fusion X. Denver]

Am I the only Christian on here these days, or am I the only one who has bothered to post yet? Anyway, I'm a Christian that attends an Evangelical Covenant Church. I'm not overly religious btw.

Technically speaking I'm a deist, but I sometimes prefer to call myself a Christian that's far from religiously devout, since I was raised Christian. I'd like to just say Christian, but I don't really agree with a lot of the Catholic Church's stances such as preventing gay marriage or not letting priests get married, though that's just my opinion.

[Nathanael D. Striker]

Technically speaking I'm a deist, but I sometimes prefer to call myself a Christian that's far from religiously devout, since I was raised Christian. I'd like to just say Christian, but I don't really agree with a lot of the Catholic Church's stances such as preventing gay marriage or not letting priests get married, though that's just my opinion.

 

The Catholic Church is only one branch of Christianity. There are others out there. =/

 

I remember one time where a Catholic didn't believe that a Catholicism was Christianity and believed that they were different. When I told them differently, they argued with me then dropped it. This was a few years ago, and I felt sorry for the person at the time.

[宇佐見 蓮子@C94]

WORSHIP THE MORIYA SHRINE/jk

 

I'm a Muslim. Not the terrorist kind, the normal kind. 

[Blake]

Am I the only Christian on here these days, or am I the only one who has bothered to post yet? Anyway, I'm a Christian that attends an Evangelical Covenant Church. I'm not overly religious btw.

Mako109

 

Technically speaking I'm a deist, but I sometimes prefer to call myself a Christian that's far from religiously devout, since I was raised Christian. I'd like to just say Christian, but I don't really agree with a lot of the Catholic Church's stances such as preventing gay marriage or not letting priests get married, though that's just my opinion.

You don't have to be Catholic to be a Christian. In fact, I can't stand the Catholic church for more than a few reasons, and I am not exactly fond of the church as a whole.

 

I'm a Christian, but I'm not part of any church, at least not currently. Very few people I knew from the churches I've been to could be considered anything short of hypocrites, my own dad being the exact kind of, pardon my language, trash that people think of when they think of church on the whole.

 

Without going into details: Claims he loves his son. Never tries to apologize for robbing his son. Sent his son a Christmas Card that said "I gave 100 dollars I could've given you to kids in Africa/South America/Something, aren't you happy I'm such a good person?", when his son wasn't expecting anything at all. Constantly makes his son out to be the one that hurt him instead of acknowledging how wrong the fact he used his son for monetary gain was. Makes daughter feel like if she's not perfect in his eyes that she's not God's child. Constantly makes himself out to be a wonderful person, while constantly trying to control his current wife and be the king of everything. And so on.

 

He's an example of everything wrong with the church as a whole. I'm not even remotely perfect, and I won't claim to be, but at least I'm not living a two-faced lie that hurts those you "love" intentionally while claiming to be a man of God.

[Fusion X. Denver]

I probably should have elaborated there. You could say I'm actually Catholic because I got my First Communion, but I never really followed through with anything religious after that, which is why I decided to stick with the simple label of "Christian", though in retrospect I may have been generalizing there.

It's probably a lot less complicated just to say I'm a deist with a few Christian morales and values.

[Shradow]

Church of Falcon

 

 

[Desu the Blue Nerd]

I'd say Haurihism or Homestuckism but Haurhi's far too judgemental of me and Karkat is as real as magic.

 

I'm generally indifferent to religion as a whole. I suppose Agnostic is probably the best term to use although Alice's interview by Broken did make me somewhat more interested in nihilism. Oh well.

 

Atheistic Agnostic

 

I don't believe in a higher power, but I can't prove he doesn't exist.

 

That's more because you have absolutely terrible debating skills and that ended up making you a terrible Antitheist but now you're tacking on Agnostic because of just how damn schizophrenic your are with anything involving you.

The only true religion is

 

 

I was starting to get tired of the bad "this funnyish thing is my religion" jokes but I love you for this.

[.Spock]

Excuse me? How does someone who has a lack of dedication to a certain belief have anything whatsoever to do with debating skills? You're under the assumption that a belief is something you wield, a weapon in a fight.

 

Also, just so you know, debating in England/America is usually done in standard English, so when you come into an English-American forum, hoping to bait and flame others, think twice. There's always someone bigger and badder than you. 

With all due respect; get the hell out of my thread. 

 

[Blake]

Excuse me? How does someone who has a lack of dedication to a certain belief have anything whatsoever to do with debating skills? You're under the assumption that a belief is something you wield, a weapon in a fight.

 

Also, just so you know, debating in England/America is usually done in standard English, so when you come into an English-American forum, hoping to bait and flame others, think twice. There's always someone bigger and badder than you. 

With all due respect; get the hell out of my thread. 

First off, this is a public thread. It doesn't matter that you created it, seeing that it's not something they actively joined like a club or contest, so you can't tell him to get out because it isn't "your" thread, it's public domain that so happens to have been created by you.

 

Secondly, read his post again. He's saying that Izaya/Revan lacked the skill/devotion to his Antitheism to actually carry through with it, and thus lacks the ability to stick to it.

[.Spock]

Fair enough. (I barely read his post the first time around to begin with anyway)

 

.-. 

 

I apologise either way. 48 hours without sleep is bound to make you a bit cranky. I hope you understand. 

 

Meh. 

 

EDIT: Please note, I am rational. Not really up for a fight when I've been proven wrong. 

[Sunshine Jesse]

Agnostic atheist, been this way for a while now.

 

I used to be a stereotypical Christian but once I realized that young-earth creationism was bull, I started thinking more and it all went "downhill" from there

[BehindTheMask]

If anything I'd label myself a buddisht. But I don't, labels are for people who need them. I'm simply whatever you think I am.

[.Spock]

You sound condescending as fuck. If someone perceives you in a certain way, it often or not is true. More or less your opinion in the thread on people's perceptions of others. :L 

[Thar]

I was in an agnostic phase for about a year or so, but then I came to realized just how f*cked up the idea of religion was regarding how it was the cause of many wars in the past. Hence I include myself out of it all.

[BehindTheMask]

You sound condescending as fuck. If someone perceives you in a certain way, it often or not is true. More or less your opinion in the thread on people's perceptions of others. :L 

 

I'm sick of "special snowflake syndrome." Labels only carry weight to those who care about them. I don't care that you're a christian, or a buddist, or whatever. I care if you are a good person. Our religions shouldn't be a barrier that separates us at all. "oh im a Protestant" "F U man, I'm a level 4 laser lotus." It's all ideological bull that is meant to be divisive.

 

Sorry if I'm "condescending" but I really don't care. If I'm feeling what you're feeling, I'm rolling with you until the end.

[.Spock]

I still think you're condescending as fuck.

 

But still, I like your reasoning. Peace. (:

[vla1ne]

Atheist. but willing to be convinced by evidence otherwise.

[Kyng's Old Account]

I'm a Theist.

 

I think there must be some sort of afterlife to make this life meaningful, but I believe that the number of religions has made me think  they're man-made cults.

[L0SS]

[Night]

Morals > Religion. 

 

The day I'm turned away from 'heaven' merely because God is vain and required above all, my allegiance is the day I'd embrace hell.  

[Tentacruel]

Protestant. 

[Agro]

Morals > Religion. 

 

The day I'm turned away from 'heaven' merely because God is vain and required above all, my allegiance is the day I'd embrace hell.  

This. All of this.

 

And guys, there's no need to hate on religions. Some people want or feel they need a meaning in life, and that's okay.

 

As for the people that can only say they don't believe in religion because of the bad things, you fail to recollect the good things that have come from it.

[Tentacruel]

Eh, generally I think the concept of believing or not believing in certain things because of social aspects surrounding those beliefs is fairly silly.  People (for the most part) follow religions because it's what they actually believe to be true, not because of the social benefits of practicing it.

[L0SS]

This. All of this.

 

And guys, there's no need to hate on religions. Some people want or feel they need a meaning in life, and that's okay.

 

As for the people that can only say they don't believe in religion because of the bad things, you fail to recollect the good things that have come from it.

But that depends on whether or not you think that good points outweigh the bad points. And even then, that doesn't count as evidence or a reason to believe for the sake of it.

 

I couldn't tell if you were religious or not from your comment (which should be applauded, as it's hard to remain resolutely neutral on a standpoint such as religion), but I'd like to cast a non-religious viewpoint on your comment. I'm sure a religious person will do the same.

[Tourmaline]

[quote name="Agro" post="6181971" timestamp="1366054669"]This. All of this.   And guys, there's no need to hate on religions. [b]Some people want or feel they need a meaning in life[/b], and that's okay.   As for the people that can only say they don't believe in religion because of the bad things, you fail to recollect the good things that have come from it.[/quote] Why would somebody search for something that doesn't exist? Or it might just be me.