I don't really care too much, so I guess I'm agnostic or something.
At heart, I'm more Spiritual than anything.
I got to church once in a blue moon (think midnight mass on christmas) because it makes me feel better. BeauChan fucked around with this message on 03-07-2007 at 11:42 PM.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
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Damnati thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:
Used to be rabidly Baptist but, after spending a semester living in the dorms at a bible college attached to the church I went to, I learned things about the church and the religion that I want nothing to do with it anymore. By all accounts from just about every religion, it's how you live this life and the kind of person you are that makes a difference in the end. I've plenty to worry about in this life without worrying about the hereafter or what divine entity might be watching. I guess that falls under agnostic.
I was raised southern baptist and, according to all the churches I've gone to (not just southern baptist), whether or not you get into heaven and what you do in this life has absolutely nothing to do with your earthly deeds and what kind of person you are.
so, i suppose, i have no religion.
and i continue to practice.
Now? I generally follow the whole do as thou will, harm none philosophy, and leave it at that.
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Maradon! obviously shouldn't have said:
Atheist, practicing
More specifically I'm a devotee of the Scientific Method. Dr. Gee fucked around with this message on 03-08-2007 at 12:28 AM.
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x--Dr. GeeO-('-'Q) :
More specifically I'm a devotee of the Scientific Method.
that's pretty much the de-facto for a naturalist (as opposed to supernaturalists)
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Dr. Gee had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
Ya, but it was worth saying. I've gotten a lot of, "Well if you don't believe in God, what DO you believe in?" recently.
That's pretty stupid.
Is it so unfathomable that someone might be a nihilist?
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Gadani isn't in Kansas anymore:What religion are you? What denomination are you? Do you practice your religion or is it just a tag?
Christian
Catholic
Practice? No. Still have faith? Yeah. But I think God cares a lot more about how I act day to day than where I spend my Sundays.
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Peanut butter ass Shaq Gadani booooze lime pole over bench lick:
That's pretty stupid.Is it so unfathomable that someone might be a nihilist?
atheism is not nihilism.
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Everyone wondered WTF when Blindy. wrote:
Christian
Catholic
Practice? No. Still have faith? Yeah. But I think God cares a lot more about how I act day to day than where I spend my Sundays.
Sup 
I'd like to believe, but I just can't get behind it.
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And I was all like 'Oh yeah?' and Gadani was all like:
I was raised southern baptist and, according to all the churches I've gone to (not just southern baptist), whether or not you get into heaven and what you do in this life has absolutely nothing to do with your earthly deeds and what kind of person you are.
"Faith without works is dead faith," is how it tends to go. This seems to be the dichotomy; churches preach salvation by grace but they have this difficulty explaining why it's necessary to be a good person beyond "it's the right thing to do." I asked at one point "So it really doesn't matter what you do so long as you have faith in Christ? You'll be saved?" The answers were unilaterally in the negative, that good behavior was required for salvation.
With the amount of politics that have gone into the various translations of the Bible and the amounts of politics in the Church (not necessarily State or Federally related), I can't have any faith in what they teach. Science offers no proof to the non-existence of God so I can't justify to myself being atheist. Call me indecisive, but I prefer to just not worry about the divine and the afterlife. I'd rather just be a decent person and let things be what they will be.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
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That damn dirty CBTao rudely interrupted me to say;
Agnostic-Apathetic
Baptist, I suppose... that's the affiliation my church is associated with. Raised Nazarene.
I try to live my life in the right, show my son the correct way to live and treat others. To love instead of hate. It's a day to day process. I go to church when my horrible job allows me to have a weekend off. I just was able to go to church this past weekend for the first time in over a year. I really dislike my job. If someone asks me about my faith, I have no problem telling them what and why. But, I will never be one of those horrible people who force their religion on others because they believe theirs is the correct one. I pretty much believe that everyone who worships a god worships the same god, just in different ways (if that makes sense).
uh, yah... ramble
Took a bit to find what I felt was right.
And am now currently in college taking massage therapy to help with the healing side of things. And not a weirdy college. One that also teaches things like Med As., Surg Tech, Pharm. As., Codeing and Billing and the like. It's medical oriented.
The rest.. will come when I'm out and have a practice and can afford deeper training.
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Verily, the chocolate bunny rabbits doth run and play while Dr. Gee gently hums:
Ya, but it was worth saying. I've gotten a lot of, "Well if you don't believe in God, what DO you believe in?" recently.
Ack! What a response! It's that kind of thing that feeds the creationists and the Watchmakers ID crowd.
The scientific method is not a religion and is not subject to belief. Science is not subject to belief, nor is physics. By saying one believes in that instead of religion, one falls into the trap of equating them and acknowledges that it's simply a matter of preference or choice which one someone chooses to believe in.
Science and religion have nothing to do with each other, and it's a false dichotomy to oppose them.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
I don't need one, my worldview works far better without it.
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Verily, the chocolate bunny rabbits doth run and play while Tarquinn gently hums:
I am baptized as a protestant, but I am agnostic. Not because I want to believe, but cannot, but because I cannot prove that no god exists and I have to admit that there is a tiny, weeny chance that all the religious people are right. It's highly unlikely, but before I can eliminate that chance, I am agnostic.
Asimov famously regretted taking that stance.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
Tarquinn fucked around with this message on 03-08-2007 at 05:02 AM.
Got a great case of Catholic guilt from my upbringing though. Nothing like feeling the need to apologize for your very existence!
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
And he stayed pretty true to that when we came along. I was baptised, but I've been to church for worship purposes like...twice...in my whole life. Most of my religious theory came from my father. If you have something you believe in, no matter how esoteric, that's fine. It can be great. Just don't force it on anyone else.
So I personally prefer elements of Taoist and Buddhist philosophies, and generally leave the mystic elements out.
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So quoth Maradon!:
atheism is not nihilism.
I know that, I'm not completely retarded.
I believe in a higher power and all, I just don't like a lot of the views on religion that are going around right now. Especially down here. About every week someone approaches me while out shopping about joining their church.
I think I'll worship at the temple of Trent 
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Mr. Parcelan said:
I'm a Roman Catholic and have been since the day I was born.
