What is your religion/belief?

[justmeinoz]

I guess I should describe myself as a Judeo/mystical Islamic Anglican former Buddhist with a preference for Valhalla over the dreary harp music!

I try and keep my mind open, but with a fairly substantial BS filter fitted.

I laughed when I read that thanks to new work by translators there are going to be a lot of disappointed suicide bombers in Paradise looking at the 72 white grapes in their lap!

[Crow]

I guess I should describe myself as a Judeo/mystical Islamic Anglican former Buddhist with a preference for Valhalla over the dreary harp music!

I try and keep my mind open, but with a fairly substantial BS filter fitted.

I highly approve of this set of religious beliefs (and of your description thereof). |D *thumbs up*

[RebeccaFog]

I still prefer the church of Simian Primates. Our Spirits are capable of climbing great trees and opening small nuts with their furry little hands. Several times a year, we celebrate by gathering around The Great Tree while communally grooming under the sun. Quite often, we are chased off by humans and their canines.

Any religion that precludes the grooming of others is not a true religion.

There is a movement within our religion for our people to cross breed with rabbits in order to gain increased speed and larger ears, however, this sect will not survive the cleansing that is coming its way. So sayeth Bobo.

[confused]

i have my own God , which is me, no confusions interpreting what they want (or at least less than other Gods) , no one can tell ME things about it other than me , no one else follows it *which makes me feel kinda special ,giggity*
we don't get along most of the time but it can't throw me in ell for it
well but to be honest i'm more of an agnostic

[rexgsd]

atheist

[Aiden]

I mostly call myself a spiritualist, I have beliefs that don't follow any specific Religion.  Though I have come to accept Kami in the Japanese beliefs of Shinto to be better to describe the spiritual essences I have believed in.  I still am much exploring and learning and grasping the sense within myself of what I understand and believe as there are few human words to grasp everything.

[Hauser]

empiricist.

[Yakshini]

I am a Cosmic Humanist. Which sounds like a spooky cult related to aliens or like some kind of Scientology, but really it just means that my beliefs are based closely to the New Age movement.

[Shang]

My religion/spirituality is rather complicated.  I have Catholic leanings, but I don't believe Jesus was anything more than a prophet with no divinity--like the Muslin view of Jesus.  My version of heaven and hell is rather complicated and it pulls in the reincarnation aspect into it, assuming I'm in the mindset that allows reincarnation in.  Then I believe that all religions and spiritualities are right, but that they only pertain to the person who believes in them.  What you believe in happens only to you and no one else.  I also believe gods and goddesses of other paradigms are also out there.  There's so many other things that pertains to my spirituality.  Like I said, it's complicated.

[lightvi]

Baptist/Buddhist/Cosmic Humanist/Animist without religion or belonging to any organization would probably be the best description of what I believe

[Rachelicious]

Thread necro! 

I dislike using the word Satanist because most people have already affixed one interpretation or another to the word, but my Luciferian beliefs are certainly similar in many ways to its atheistic practice - that what matters spiritually is what we do here with our actual lives, how that affects us, and how we then affect our world. You do not need a religion to have morals and be a good person.

The main difference is less emphasis on carnality, but with that same self-devotion focused towards seeking greater creativity and enlightenment. At times I've also described myself as Promethean, to those who do not understand that the translation of Lucifer (morning star) is widely synonymous in meaning with Prometheus - and that many spiritual misconceptions are the machinations of religious entities that seek to retard humanity's intellectual development.

[PinkCloud]

I follow no religion. Just as I don't follow someone else's opinion. I take note, and at best integrate some of it after some serious scrutiny. I am eclectic with the focus upon thinking for myself, which incidentally, is harder than it is commonly assumed.

[fitzyfoop]

Agnostic Atheist, I don't know if there is a god, but at that, I don't think there is one

[Serenahikaru]

I'm more of a free thinker. They say those who are transgender, homosexual, etc. go to hell. But I refuse to believe or respect a God who would be that shallow. Overall I'm questioning if there even is one. Why are there so many people bored with defects? Why are there so many problems with the world? You'd think if there was a God he'd step in at some point. If there is one I feel like we're just his amusement.

[DarkWolf_7]

I consider myself an Agnostic Deist leaning more towards deism. Basically meaning I believe if there is a God, they aren't too involved, like a programmer who designs a program and let's it run on it's own.

[Monika1223]

Nothing however I do feel like there is a heaven of eternal happiness and a hell for all those annoying anti gay people like Vladimir Putin.

[Tessa James]

While not technically a religion or belief, secular humanist describes me best.  Humanism has been around for generations and includes the entire human experience.  We can learn from the historical attempts to creating ethical guidelines and incorporate solid reasoning to arrive at a philosophical place that fits our current world.  We need not posit supernatural answers to our understanding of the cosmos and our places in it.

[Nickywhat]

Ello everyone!  Well I don't follow a religion presay and while the closest I guess that I most identify with is Agnosticism or Omnism, I still can't completely explain what I believe in.  I'll probably come back when I have more time to carefully detail all aspects that I think about and consider but to a fine point:

I believe in a afterlife of existence, not a Heaven/Hell concept but a next level of living, a stage of transition where my essence/soul is carried on as my body returns to the Earth and Mother Nature's cycle.  I believe that there are aspects of our lives that may or may not be influenced by Gods and Goddesses that have touches of themselves in conjunction with the very science and metabolic structure of life.  I also believe that our life energy is returned to the earth and converted into a new "rebirth" of life, what that life is, is very unknown and subject to each of us.

I guess I'm a hodg-podge of beliefs, but I feel a balance in a acceptance of ifferent aspects to universally have respect for all and all life as it may be.  I could also just be crazy X_X

[Felicity R]

At this point in time I would likely classify myself as an atheist.

I was raised in an evangelical christian home, and was an active christian for most of my childhood. I first started to become disillusioned with my faith around the age of 11 or 12, and my faith quickly began to fade after that. I've continued to attend a christian church even to this day, mostly for the sake of my family. Both of my parents were christian missionaries, so I don't know if being so deeply steeped within the religion as I was growing up led to my eventual rejection of it or not. I suspect it mostly came down to the idea that I have a lot of trouble with the idea of faith, with few people within my religious community offering any tenable answers.

I've never really tried looking into any other religions, mostly because I suspect they wouldn't interest me much either. I do find certain aspects of religion very interesting in general, but I don't know that it is anything I would ever actively choose to believe in.

[Endless Rain]

I'm a Pagan. I normally follow the Greek pantheon, but I recognize other pantheons as well.