What is your religion / faith?

[Robbo]

Agnosticism is alive and well and a long term resident in my head !

Remember this.........where knowledge ends, faith begins ..... if you think about this, it undermines every single religion this world has ever spouted, but it is also testament to man's resillience of hope.

 

[Clompy]

Athiest but slightly Agnostic, something is playing a game with us poor fools out there.....
And I don't believe it's the bloke out of the big book!

 

[Bon]

Agnosticism is alive and well and a long term resident in my head !

If this is the context which states that nothing can be currently proven either way (evolution vs god) then I think this is what i would plonk myself into. However I still believe that all religions are based on corruption.

 

[Dskize]

I used to call myself an apathetic agnostic ,then I got even more lazy and became atheist.

 

[Lucky]

If you ask me for an exact answer then in Atheist, But......

Some things in my head do not quite make sense, so i'm edging on the boundaries of Spiritualist, but i have not yet formulated "my own" opinion.

But i do not for one moment include "GOD" in any of my beliefs!

In fact i "HATE" churches and religion in their institutionalised form, the hypocrisy is unbelievable.

 

[rewind]

If this is the context which states that nothing can be currently proven either way (evolution vs god) then I think this is what i would plonk myself into. However I still believe that all religions are based on corruption.

Religion yes, faith no.

The church had control over most of the western world, and as we know, absalute power, corrupts absalutely.

The crusades were probably the worst situation where barbarity is done in the name God. this is where the screw up appears. Where stuff is done in the name of God, and we say our actions are already approved by God, to justify otherwise selfish, or (for want of a better term) sinfull actions.

 

[Robbo]

If you require any form of scientific reasoning to be convinced of any significant truth, then there is no religion anywhere that can fulfill that desire.

Religions are devoid of the required scientific integrity that can reasonably be assigned to the world in which we live ... in my head, people who fall for that cr@p are weak-minded individuals who sacrifice reason for some emotional weakness.

However, the agnosticism that so wraps itself around my head also comes with a nagging doubt that just won't go away.
Just as I find it ludicrous to believe in any form of religion, I also find it just as ludicrous to believe the entity that created us would allow us the necessary intelligence of mind to become aware of him (God) but have no lines of communication (with us) or plan.

For any scientifically minded person, the idea of matter spontaneously creating itself (hydrogen and then helium), and then these elements eventually going on to create complex hydrocarbons and thus life is an insult ..... well, in my head it is coz at that point, something rises out of the primordial cloud and introduces himself as God.
Hi there big guy !

But as we speak, some guys are furiously working on proving matter can actually spontaneously create itself and I am not looking forward to the completion of their work.
Which actually, completes the ridiculous irony of it all, for me anyway, because, I am no better than anyone believing in all these pathetic religions purporting to be the 'chosen' few ...it seems that when knowledge ended, I had faith in Agnosticism all along

 

[spangley_special]

As far as relgion and faith go, I consider myself a scientist.

And based on all empirical data I can only deduce that god is a lie.

...and that Scientologists are crazy.

 

[Cook$]

Science flies us into space, religion flies us into buildings.

Not a fan, I find it all ridiculous, a bunch of fairy stories that got out of hand. However, if you get something out of it and it makes you a better person, that's great.

Personally, I beleive in purgatory, heaven and hell. I beleive that purgatory must exist, for what God would create a race that has the ability to choose, where there are civilisations that have no idea of a god even existing, and people that through human logic cannot see how a god could exist.

The catholic church has recently discounted purgatory as a belief, claiming that it was oudated theology.


As for me, I'm a Buddhist Fundamentalist. Be nice to one another, or I'll bomb the f**k out of you.

 

[rewind]

If you require any form of scientific reasoning to be convinced of any significant truth, then there is no religion anywhere that can fulfill that desire.

Religions are devoid of the required scientific integrity that can reasonably be assigned to the world in which we live ... in my head, people who fall for that cr@p are weak-minded individuals who sacrifice reason for some emotional weakness.

However, the agnosticism that so wraps itself around my head also comes with a nagging doubt that just won't go away.
Just as I find it ludicrous to believe in any form of religion, I also find it just as ludicrous to believe the entity that created us would allow us the necessary intelligence of mind to become aware of him (God) but have no lines of communication (with us) or plan.

For any scientifically minded person, the idea of matter spontaneously creating itself (hydrogen and then helium), and then these elements eventually going on to create complex hydrocarbons and thus life is an insult ..... well, in my head it is coz at that point, something rises out of the primordial cloud and introduces himself as God.
Hi there big guy !

But as we speak, some guys are furiously working on proving matter can actually spontaneously create itself and I am not looking forward to the completion of their work.
Which actually, completes the ridiculous irony of it all, for me anyway, because, I am no better than anyone believing in all these pathetic religions purporting to be the 'chosen' few ...it seems that when knowledge ended, I had faith in Agnosticism all along

So essentually, you are saying that in your mind you cannot justify the existance of a supernatural being that has created the universe, however at the same time you realise that nothing can be created from nothing...

Do you think that this nagging, yet not being able to beleive, is the human mind and logic creating a 'barrier' that prevents you from perceiving anything from outside our universe and the consequences thereof?

Much like he theory that one can only perceive a situation within his own dimension, we can only consider things in our reality, rather than thinking outside our own reality.

(asking out of interest rather than to preach and say your wrong. Im all up for debate and all, but everyone is entitled to their own opinion)