Religion

[ShortStack]

I felt really in touch with the Lord this last Sunday and it made me think...whose else here has a religion? No, I'm NOT going to preach to you...what you do is your business, not mine. But I'm just curious. I bet it's something that has already been said, but humour me!

By the way, I'm what people call "Mormon", but I prefer to be called a Latter Day Saint.

[Leebo]

Non denominational Christian... "protestant"? i dunno.. too much stuff going around to figure out the "title" and why do we all use "quotes"?

[kimchicowboy]

southern baptist upbringing, but now non-denominational Christian.

[revil]

Originally posted by kimchicowboy
southern baptist upbringing
you're not fat... are you...? :P

I belong to the church of elvis. located in the beautiful Portland, OR.

actually, i'm an athiest.

[hoey222]

Originally posted by ShortStack
I felt really in touch with the Lord this last Sunday


ok so.....you were out with corsec....big deal :heh:


f3h - i'm catholic - i feel like i've done my time, paid my dues so to speak. i have taught in a catholic school.

i personally am a little disillusioned with the church. don't get me wrong, i believe in a higher power. but the institution of the church has soured me.

[CornMonkey]

Originally posted by Leebo
Non denominational Christian... "protestant"? i dunno.. too much stuff going around to figure out the "title" and why do we all use "quotes"?
ditto.

[Nija]

born christian.

currently practicing satanism

[Leebo]

Originally posted by hoey222

i personally am a little disillusioned with the church. don't get me wrong, i believe in a higher power. but the institution of the church has soured me.

Cuz of the hypocrisy in it? I know that's my main quirk w/ the college fellowships I go to.:dodgy:

[Nija]

Originally posted by Leebo


Cuz of the hypocrisy in it? I know that's my main quirk w/ the college fellowships I go to.:dodgy:

hey hey hey

there is no such thing as hypocrisy in college fellowships! :shifty:

[dark helmet]

If you had to slap a label on me, I am "Agnostic".

I see an absence of "god" as a the most likely scenario, but I do not discount the possibility that there is some sort of "higher power". However, I do think that if there were some sort of higher power, it would be nothing at all like the one(s) envisioned by most organized religions.

Personally, I think it would be concieted for me to pretend to know what "god" is.

I leave you with a poem:

A man said to the universe:
"Sir I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."
-Stephen Crane (1894)

[molecularfire]

Agnostic.

I know someone's is after me. Just don't know who she is. :shrug:

[whitak24]

i am a Seventh-day Adventist

[WhiskeyPapa]

I used to call myself a "Fundamentalist Christian", but then fundamentalism became synonymous with terrorism, intolerance, gay-bashing, abortion-clinic-bombing, and all kinds of other nasty stuff.

It used to mean you stuck close to the fundamentals of the Christian faith (basically you believe the whole bible.)

Now I guess I have to call myself a non-denominational Christian. Granted, we attend a church that is part of the Church of God denomination of Anderson, Indiana, but that is a pretty loosely organized denomination.

[GraingerGuy]

I'm Seventh-Day Adventist too!

:)

[hapoo]

Muslim :)

[RoniMan]

Buddhist

[Jihforce]

Buddhist. Future-wife is LDS.

[Leebo]

Originally posted by Nija


hey hey hey

there is no such thing as hypocrisy in college fellowships! :shifty:

:heh: :heh: :heh:

[Capricornholio]

I was baptised Catholic and later became a Born Again Christian as a youth with my parents. I guess after taking interest in science I began to question a lot about religion and since have become very skeptical. Don't get me wrong however the scientific theories of life make equally little sense to me, but I just can't believe in scripture that was written when people were scared of comets and solar eclipses. To me it's no different than ancient mythology, it's only people trying to explain the unexplainable. Today when people claim to have been spoken to by God, they are taken away in straight-jackets and given a good dosing of Zanex. I do believe in the spirit of living creatures but I couldn't tell you where they go after death, but I'd like to think they return to the Earth as energy of some sort. Take a good look around, is this place not heaven if you take the time to notice the smallest details of what exists.

[nickel]

Originally posted by hoey222

i personally am a little disillusioned with the church. don't get me wrong, i believe in a higher power. but the institution of the church has soured me.

i am Catholic and share your feelings exactly hoey222.

[zenbooty]

I come from a Catholic family, but my parents fell out with the church a few years before I was born, so I've never been baptised or gone to church (well, I went once with a friend because I slept over sat. night, but that doesn't really count). It certainly did influence my upbringing, though, so even to this day I tackle the ideas of faith and meaning over and over in my head. I am certainly spiritual. I have toyed with Bhuddism, Taoism, as well as nihilism, atheism, and agnosticism. I still cross my chest for good luck before attempting dificult or dangerous activities, and have felt the presences of the great creative entity (being? force? who knows?)surging inside me and warming me from within in a moment of revelation. I would never presume to label it anymore, though. I guess I'm more of a spiritual philosopher. I limit my belief to the idea that having faith that the universe has some meaning somewhere is important to being happy and healthy. As to what exactly that meaning or explanation is, I think I get more out of pondering the questions more than placing faith in any one answer.

[kimchicowboy]

Originally posted by Jihforce
Buddhist. Future-wife is LDS.
what kind of marriage ceremony are you going to have then? is she a practicing LDS?

[sachin tendulkar]

I was born Christian in India, yes 2% of India's population is christian. We are brought up very religiously there, everyone goes to church every Sunday, the format is almost identical to Lutheran. I dont think I'll deviate from it ever in my life.

[Jihforce]

Originally posted by kimchicowboy

what kind of marriage ceremony are you going to have then? is she a practicing LDS?

We'll have a "christian" marrige so to speak. We asked her Bishop to marry us and he said yes. He probably will talk about God, State & Church as being integral parts of a marriage...which I have no problems with.
The downside is that we won't be getting married in a LDS temple. So I we're going out of our way to decorate the hotel real nice so that it sort of makes up for it. :)
Yes she is. She hasn't been to church as much because she works most sundays, but we have prayers before meals and such.

[WhiskeyPapa]

Originally posted by Jihforce
Yes she is. Does that mean you're going to have a dozen kids, too? :thumbup:

[Jihforce]

Originally posted by kb0wwp
Does that mean you're going to have a dozen kids, too? :thumbup:

Haahaa, unfortunately, her mom brought her up to only have no more than 3. Now, she decided to cap it at 2. I hope no one else gives her anymore crazy ideas :heh:

[aznkiddo]

Isn't no religion the best there is?? because there's too many out there ..

[ultraspank28]

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5. Nobody's ever been burned at the stake, hanged, or tortured over his brand of Beer.

4. You don't have to wait 2000+ years for a second Beer.

3. There are laws saying Beer labels can't lie to you.

2. You can prove you have a Beer.

1. If you've devoted your life to Beer, there are groups to help you stop.

[Cantacuzene]

Catholic by birth and upbringing but I'd say my believes are more in line with the eastern orthodox. Unlike most Catholics I believe in Prima Pares with the other 4 Patriarchs and I am for allowing priests to marry and I also endorse the orthodox policy of drawing Bishops, Metropolitans etc from monks rather than parish priests. I support a union of the two apostolic churches only if the issue is resolved by an eucumenical council.

I guess you could say I'm and eastern orthodox trying to change the catholic church from within.

[Hunny]

Originally posted by ShortStack
I felt really in touch with the Lord this last Sunday and it made me think...whose else here has a religion? No, I'm NOT going to preach to you...what you do is your business, not mine. But I'm just curious. I bet it's something that has already been said, but humour me!

By the way, I'm what people call "Mormon", but I prefer to be called a Latter Day Saint.


I was raised Catholic...baptism, communion, catechism, confession...plaid skirt, white shirt, & knee socks...the whole deal...I use to think my mother made up holy days just so we'd have to go to church...I hid my shoes one Sunday so I could stay home, she made me wear my sneakers with my dress :eek: ...When my sister was old enough to drive, we went on our own...:rolleyes: to some undisclosed location where we would sit for an hour till church was over:angel:
I believe in God, I pray, & not only when I need something:P...but I don't go to church...I think half of who go to church are hypocrites anyhow...
....and going to church at 5 pm on a Saturday night instead of getting up on a Sunday morning because you might have a hangover from partying all night or you're too lazy to get out of bed, burns my A* ...

[oblongmelon]

Catholic here..went all through catholic schools myself. Things were different then. We still had nuns and priests teaching classes. I go to mass frequently, but alot of times, if I want to get a free minute or two for some nice quiet solitude-I'll head to the chapel that the perpetual adoration society keeps open round the clock. It's nice and quite and no one is shoving a collection plate in your face. Usually there is only one or two people in there. I must admit though I stopped going to confession when I found out that priests are allowed to drink,smoke,lie,cheat and drive nice cars-I mean, why should I confess MY sins to someone who may have even more than I do..If I need to talk to God-I go straight to the source. I got sick and tired of hearing about our parish priest going out for beers with the Mens Club from church. That to me just killed the whole notion of priests being pius.

[Hunny]

Originally posted by oblongmelon
Catholic here..went all through catholic schools myself. Things were different then. We still had nuns and priests teaching classes. I go to mass frequently, but alot of times, if I want to get a free minute or two for some nice quiet solitude-I'll head to the chapel that the perpetual adoration society keeps open round the clock. It's nice and quite and no one is shoving a collection plate in your face. Usually there is only one or two people in there. I must admit though I stopped going to confession when I found out that priests are allowed to drink,smoke,lie,cheat and drive nice cars-I mean, why should I confess MY sins to someone who may have even more than I do..If I need to talk to God-I go straight to the source. I got sick and tired of hearing about our parish priest going out for beers with the Mens Club from church. That to me just killed the whole notion of priests being pius.

Just a thought that made me laugh when you mentioned confession...I haven't gone in eons...but I do remember when I did go to confession ..the sick feeling in my stomach when my turn came to go in and sit in that dark 2X2 space ...alone sliding that damn little window over so you could talk to some "faceless person"...
Here is what I use to do...make up a whole bunch of sins...the last one, I'd confess to lying...seemed to have covered me all the way around....:angel: and thats the Gods honest truth !! :bonk: