Thread: What do you believe in?

Originally Posted by JimR

Atheists spend most of their energy on self defense, not a lot of time to go on the attack.

That depends on the majority. Recently I was in a discussion where I was seriously on the defense and the atheists were piling on me.

When I then mentioned that science will always have to rely on some leap of faith (because all theories are inevitably based on one or more axioms) I got the flame treatment, telling me that at least science was trying to explain stuff, and I was just being a sheep, and one day we might be able to explain the examples I've given on current axioms (which will just lead to other axioms), ....

On the whole, I think how people treat each other has more to do with the kind of people they are, rather than whether they are religious or not.

Somehow, some way we got here...

The choices that we make will determine the outcome in the end...

There either is or isn't something when the lights go out... I tend to believe there is...

Whether my choices in life will let me go to the place I desire... That is up to the all MIGHTY one, if you belive in one...

Follower of Jesus Christ in the Protestant, Nazarene, flavor. Holiness tradition and scientist. Happy to be a part of this community.
Romans 10:9
and
Hebrews 4:12 (gotta love the the "somewhat" reference to being sharp)

I guess I'll put my two cents in. I was raised Catholic and pay lip service to it for family reasons. But in recent years I've come to the belief that the idea of organized religion is, for me at least, a terrible way to engage your spiritual side. We're all different, we all believe in different ways, but religions tend to apply a rigid structure on top of it that doesn't allow for your own little quirks and nuances. For many, many, many people that's just fine and they love it and I'm very happy for them. But it just doesn't work for me.

That's a really bad way of saying I'm an agnostic. I've been called an atheist but that's not accurate...I think the best way to describe what I believe is that I believe in something that most religions will interpret as God or a god, but I just don't label it as such, because I just don't believe it's something that can be labelled accurately. Does that make sense?

It does.

Religion is ultimately personal thing. What others do or think has no effect on me. For a long time I would think I was angry because some prick made me angry. Now I realise if i am angry it is because I allowed myself to become angry.

Originally Posted by ndw76

Religion is ultimately personal thing. What others do or think has no effect on me. For a long time I would think I was angry because some prick made me angry. Now I realise if i am angry it is because I allowed myself to become angry.

I don't need anger management, I just need people to stop pissing me off!

Originally Posted by U2Bono269

That's a really bad way of saying I'm an agnostic. I've been called an atheist but that's not accurate...I think the best way to describe what I believe is that I believe in something that most religions will interpret as God or a god, but I just don't label it as such, because I just don't believe it's something that can be labelled accurately. Does that make sense?

Amen, brotha! Er, I mean, peace also be unto you. Or something.

I don't believe , but if there's an afterlife with a decent internet connection, I'll let you guys know what I find!

Good one ! So will you be using iCloud , as your storage provider on the otherside ?

cheers,

Scott