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 Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:19 pm
xxEternallyBluexx creationism only applies to certain religions (Christianity, Judiasm, maybe Islam). Given all that creationism requires is belief in a deity that created life as we know it, I think you may be off here. There's nothing stopping anyone from other faiths from believing their deity (or pantheon) is the one responsible for the whole creationism deal. 3nodding
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Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 2:35 pm
Byaggha xxEternallyBluexx creationism only applies to certain religions (Christianity, Judiasm, maybe Islam). Given all that creationism requires is belief in a deity that created life as we know it, I think you may be off here. There's nothing stopping anyone from other faiths from believing their deity (or pantheon) is the one responsible for the whole creationism deal. 3nodding Creationism is usually applied to Biblical creation, and there are some religions that lack a creation story, therefore it wouldn't have been incorrect to assume he was talking about either Christianity or Judaism, unless he had specified. smile
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Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 2:46 pm
xxEternallyBluexx Creationism is usually applied to Biblical creation, Only in certain areas of the world. Other ones, people will have a creation story and will refer to the idea in similar terms. Assuming right off there's only three faiths one can be talking about with the term is missing a lot of faiths. biggrin Quote: and there are some religions that lack a creation story, True. Quote: therefore it wouldn't have been incorrect to assume he was talking about either Christianity or Judaism, unless he had specified. smile Actually, it is still jumping the gun - he could have been referring to the concept in general, not just the Abrahmic variant of it, regardless of whether he said 'I mean x faiths' or not. 3nodding
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Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 5:53 pm
I've known Freyja since I was a small child. I didn't always know that that's who she was but I knew her just the same. I knew her name but had no knowledge of Norse mythology so I didn't know it meant anything. She was patient. She waited for me to find out and she was there whe I went looking for her again.
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Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 11:55 pm
no reason....
im in my religion cause God lets me to be a Muslim... Allhamdulillah...
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Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 2:31 pm
I'm Atheist because I just couldn't scientifically see how some kind of more powerful being made matter. That one thing has always had me stumbled and probably always will.
That lead me farther into the path of not believing.
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Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 2:34 pm
I've found that allot of people don't really have a "reason" for their beliefs, they just believe.
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Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 10:40 am
Others see me as an atheist; however, I'm not completely devoid of belief so that is offensive. I have a very... "different" set of beliefs. I believe what i do because of true life experience and things that i have seen. In my school, I'm currently taking a DE Humanities class, and we discuss religion almost as much as art. There are so many people in my class that hate me because they believe in what their parents do and they believe what they have been taught. I know that God does exist but i do not believe in him nor do i worship him because He has never made himself known to me. In my opinion, God is created in each person as a feeling of completeness caused by the psychological need to understand the unknown and to feel connected to the world. We are, as individuals, connected to each other by a thread of imagination and wishful thinking. I don't feel that connection to anyone. I never really have, so therefore God is absent from my life. I'm happy like this, though, so people who shove their beliefs on others sicken me confused life is why i believe what i do 3nodding
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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 4:47 pm
I am a Catholic. Always have been, always will be. I didn't start going to church until i was in 6th grade, and didn't make my first communion until then either. I did get confirmed on schedule.
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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:01 pm
I have a fairly complex system of beliefs in some ways I am an ecclectic pagan and in others I am an agnostic.
Growing up I tried going to church, I tried several different Chrisitan churches and it just didn't feel right to me. I read the Bible and just couldn't buy into the way of thinking. I even read some of the Gnostic Gospels, which I found very fascinating but still Paganism just felt right to me, it clicked and I have never regretted my religious choice. Although, I do like reading about other religions just to compare and be knowledgable on such things.
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 5:25 pm
Renkon Root I've found that allot of people don't really have a "reason" for their beliefs, they just believe. *nods* Either that or they do have a 'reason' for their beliefs that just isn't all that convincing or valid to others.
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 5:45 pm
Byaggha xxEternallyBluexx creationism only applies to certain religions (Christianity, Judiasm, maybe Islam). Given all that creationism requires is belief in a deity that created life as we know it, I think you may be off here. There's nothing stopping anyone from other faiths from believing their deity (or pantheon) is the one responsible for the whole creationism deal. 3nodding True. But the new face of "creationism," otherwise known as Intelligent Design, is pretty much an attempt to file the serial numbers off Christianity just enough to get it into the secular curriculum as science. So it's a natural error to assume creationism equals something from the Abrahamic segment. Anyway, my own experience is heretical. Personal revelation, I felt the 'hand of God' and He led me to the path I'm on.
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 6:16 pm
Semiremis Renkon Root I've found that allot of people don't really have a "reason" for their beliefs, they just believe. *nods* Either that or they do have a 'reason' for their beliefs that just isn't all that convincing or valid to others. Or their not really sure how to explain it in a coherent manner.
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 6:21 pm
gorramKayna Semiremis Renkon Root I've found that allot of people don't really have a "reason" for their beliefs, they just believe. *nods* Either that or they do have a 'reason' for their beliefs that just isn't all that convincing or valid to others. Or their not really sure how to explain it in a coherent manner. That too 3nodding
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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 5:33 pm
I do not believe in "right" and "wrong" except as subjective experiences. Therefore, I feel no need to argue the reasons my faith seems "right" to me, and I feel no need to create any. I have found in history that doing so causes some people to argue and eventually hate, when the initial point of the religion was to love others. (Most faith embrace the golden rule.) My faith works currently, and if later on it life it doesn't, I will change it. We will work it out, God and I. It's like being in a relationship. smile
So, the most truthful thing I can say is this:
I believe what I believe because it makes me happy.
smile So selfish, yet said with so much joy. smile
Namaste
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