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Because of my own personal experiences I will admit that I'm atheist. I was raised Christian and for a time, I thought I believed but I always knew in the back of my mind that I didn't, I was just too afraid to say it.

To me, religion isn't so black and white though. I don't have a problem with people who follow religions. In fact, when I was little my grandmother (who looooved religion and spirituality and took me to all kinds prayer services for different religions) taught me about all sorts of religions and they all had the same basic principle: to be kind to one another. I won't fight a person over their beliefs and I won't try to convince them that their deity or the miracles they see are non existent because it's literally none of my business. If I don't want religious people to preach at me I don't have any right to "preach" at them either. Just as long as a person is good to others and to themselves I don't matter what religion or non religion they follow. I accept all people and I hope that someday, everyone else around me can accept others even when they think different, look different, or have different ideals. As long as a person isn't hurting another, I don't mind what they believe. If they believe in hurting others though...we have a problem.
 
Kaiaa said:
Because of my own personal experiences I will admit that I'm atheist. I was raised Christian and for a time, I thought I believed but I always knew in the back of my mind that I didn't, I was just too afraid to say it.

To me, religion isn't so black and white though. I don't have a problem with people who follow religions. In fact, when I was little my grandmother (who looooved religion and spirituality and took me to all kinds prayer services for different religions) taught me about all sorts of religions and they all had the same basic principle: to be kind to one another. I won't fight a person over their beliefs and I won't try to convince them that their deity or the miracles they see are non existent because it's literally none of my business. If I don't want religious people to preach at me I don't have any right to "preach" at them either. Just as long as a person is good to others and to themselves I don't matter what religion or non religion they follow. I accept all people and I hope that someday, everyone else around me can accept others even when they think different, look different, or have different ideals. As long as a person isn't hurting another, I don't mind what they believe. If they believe in hurting others though...we have a problem.
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See, though I become a lil sad when I hear ppl are atheist due to my beliefs and fear when they pass out they'll be hurting forever (ya know as stated) I do respect the ones that respect ppl of other religions. I had a few friends that were atheist and even just talking about God or anything of my religion CLOSE to them they'd ignore me for a couple days, which really bugged me.
I'm not one that forces things down their throats, or others, but if asked I will share how I feel and what it means to me.
What really bugged me was when they would ASK ME something about it and then get mad at me when I start talking about it... Like you brought it up, wtf??

I do agree with you about not trying to prove or argue with someone that it's impossible for their God(s) to be fake or not real or whatever. Especially if they didn't ask too. Let them believe what they want, if they ask you to help them out or what they think of it, then if that's what you wanna do, then whatever they gave you permission, but to go out of your way just to make someone who is totally content with their beliefs question it or put thoughts into your head that was probably 100% opinion-based responses, there's just no need for it, and doesn't help in any way.
 
Kaiaa said:
As long as a person isn't hurting another, I don't mind what they believe. If they believe in hurting others though...we have a problem.
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I was actually reading through both the Bible and Quran to see what they said about religious extremism. They both forbid holy wars and other principles of radicalism. The lines people interpreted as support for harm really aren't encouraging harm. The first commandment (You Shall have no other Gods before me) isn't for everyone to follow. It's for everyone following Christianity (including me) to follow. If you have never followed (or no longer follow), this doesn't apply to you. Yet, Christian extremists made it apply to everyone. And what's the penalty according to the extremists? Death. Does the Bible forbid the death penalty for apostasy and infidelity? Yes, it forbids killing as punishing apostates and infidels is only up to God, not society. But people will always believe that is suggests killing non-Christians, even if it isn't true. As for the Quran, the line "spread by the sword" does not mean "holy war". It means "struggling" or "striving". I think the only reason why it caused holy wars was because of something endangering Islam at the beginning. I should look up more about this to prove my point.
 
Riley said:
So you believe in rain gods like Native Americans do?
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Why not? They're kinda cool.
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People still worship Odin and Thor in ?satr? you know.
 
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Yukari Yakumo said:
Why not? They're kinda cool.
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People still worship Odin and Thor in ?satr? you know.
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I like the gods who look like they could kick other god's asses.


If you're gonna worship somebody, why not somebody who looks like they would win the Royal Rumble of the gods?
 
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If we're going to talk about badass gods here, Ra is ****ing incredible. His story is that he's in charge of the transition of day into night, and literally pulls the sun on a boat through the sky, and when the sun dips below the horizon, it was said that Ra had to make a journey through the underworld so that he could become reborn to pull the sun through the sky the next day. Ra literally goes through hell every single ****ing day and fights off the ****ing evils of the d ead in an epic battle all while pulling the mother****ing sun on a boat until he rises the next day.

It's also said that all humans were formed through Ra's TEARS alone. He literally had a bad day, cried, and created mankind.

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He's also so badass that he got tired of the rebirthing **** and merged with the god of the underworld to become the leader there as well, holy crap man it's no wonder they made him into a Yu-Gi-Oh card.
 
Tao said:
I like the gods who look like they could kick other god's asses.


If you're gonna worship somebody, why not somebody who looks like they would win the Royal Rumble of the gods?
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I have a feeling you would enjoy SMITE. The whole draw of the game is "You are a god! Are you able to prove yourself the strongest?"
Used it to do a research paper on Mayan deities; got a 90 between the paper and presentation.
 
I'm a Christian, Southern Baptist. (I mentioned my denomination because a lot of people online, when they find out I'm Christian, they assume I'm Catholic) I don't have anything against people that are of other denominations or religions, but I always wondered why people assume I'm Catholic.
I'm surprised everyone says children shouldn't be baptized, but I think it's fine for a child to be baptized as long as they understand it. I was baptized by my own choice at the age of 10. However, in some cases, I think kids get baptized too young. I would honestly say that 10 was sort of young.
 
Yukari Yakumo said:
I have a feeling you would enjoy SMITE. The whole draw of the game is "You are a god! Are you able to prove yourself the strongest?"
Used it to do a research paper on Mayan deities; got a 90 between the paper and presentation.
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Yea, I've seen that but my computer likely won't run it properly (I don't want a laggy computer for a PvP game).
The character designs that I've seen for it are fantastic though and do make me really wanna play it! I probably should just try it and see since it's free, I don't lose anything from it.
 
I don't really have a religion.
But I really like some of the "cool" gods(tbh they are all cool), like the Greek Gods, and the Native Americans.
 
I'm still undecided... I was raised as a Catholic, but I began looking into atheism and Wiccan stuff when I was about 10. I've been kinda questioning for many years, and I'm pretty sure I won't make a decision for a while.
 
I honestly don't know what to feel right now. This forum is full of many agnostics, and I've been on the line from Christianity recently. Whenever I am about to make the switch, though, my mind hears a little voice chickening my out. Call me crazy, because I am.
 
Beardo said:
I'm agnostic. Even mentions of religion make me really uncomfortable.
Plus I went to church camp a few years ago and some homophobic statements were made, so I was pissed. It's a sore subject for me now. Whenever people bring up church or ask me if I go I get tense. It's especially awkward when it's mentioned at school and stuff.
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This is me. This is just so much like my life.

I'm agnostic though.


My family doesn't go to church. Because of that, our neighborhood thought we worshiped
the devil
They treated us badly, I couldn't find any friends (except my back neighbors, who accept my family for how nice we are instead of our religion) because of this. All because my family didn't go to church.

They don't put the American flag up on Sundays. And THIS COUNTRY IS WHAT GAVE YOU RELIGIOUs FREEDOM!
 
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