Beliefs - Yours and what it means to you
12/8/2009 at 3:21 AM
This is a topic for us (hopefully) to learn about each others beliefs by laying them out and explaining what they mean to us / why we subscribe to them over others. The goal will be for questions to be asked, and for us all to benefit by learning about what we all follow (hopefully helping to smooth over other discussions where the belief differences can sometimes cause friction).
Please refrain from "Im right, your wrong" type posts, because none of us know, so this is a place to learn each others stance on this interesting topic.
Anyway, I think im classed as Agnostic Atheist.
Im not a "there is NO GOD PERIOD" kind of atheist (strong), im more on the "im unsure but there's not likely a god" side.
Also, I like to keep the concepts of god and religion separate, because there really 2 totally different aspects of belief.
First, the reason I dont follow Judaism/Christianity/Islam/Mormonism ect. Aside from the inconvenience of god giving Moses/Jesus/Mohammed/Joseph Smith/ect each a completely different set of "true" blueprints to eternal peace, it is also hard to miss how human god really is according to many of the teachings. Its interesting to me that all powerful god cares about whos in your bed, what you do/eat on sunday, what you consume ect. Makes the song "What if god is one of us?" seem so fitting.
I must also touch on Deism. More or less the belief in i guess an all powerful fine-tuning deity with little or no connection to humanity. This deity(s?) would basically be the controller of all things in our environment, and in the universe as a whole. This deity(s) may have very little (or no) contact with/knowledge of humanity and/or the animal kingdom.
While this senerio (once you understand it more,
http://www.deism.com/) makes some sense, for me the idea of a higher power is still hard to grasp.
I dont really believe in or follow anything, but at the same time, I cant rule any of it out either. Is the god of any of the monotheistic s really THE god? Is there a god unrelated to any scripture? Is there more than one? Is there none? Are we ruled by a great pink unicorn?
Truthfully I dont know. As such I like keeping an open but logical mind on these things. I may one day find the truth (or most likely, proof) needed to sway me, but for now, im an open book.
So how about the rest of you guys?
So now its your turn. That is my condensed view of