Religion, Faith, and Spirituality : Poll: Are you religious.?

Are you religious.?

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Re: Are you religious.?

I’m Catholic

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Not at the moment. I'm very fond of early Christianity and its contribution to the West though…Would there even be Western Civilization without Christianity?

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Not a chance.

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Of course there would. It would just be different.

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No, I'm an Agnostic, bro.



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Re: Are you religious.?

I'm Catholic

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No. I'm antitheist.

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No I’m a Christian ✝️

Jesus Christ is Lord ✝️

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No. I'm christian. That is different.

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Different how?

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Religion is human defined. If someone believes they are muslim, then they are muslim. If someone believes they are buddhist, they are buddhist. Christianity is NOT defined by mankind. It was defined by God in the Word. You could much like Rocket believe that you are a christian and be completely wrong.

Second, Christianity and religion function completely differently. Religion is basically man trying to reach heaven/paradise/nirvana, etc. through works and attempting to live a good life. Christianity Is God providing a path to salvation by paying the penalty for our sins. It's like the difference between two men stuck in a pit. One man is determined to get himself out by building a ladder with rotten sticks and debris from the pit. The other realizes that God has offered us a rope to climb out. Only one approach will actually work

Christianity and religion are very differnt.

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Religion is human defined. If someone believes they are muslim, then they are muslim. If someone believes they are buddhist, they are buddhist.
No, that's not how it works. You are a Buddhist if you agree with the tenets of Buddhism. At the most basic, you have to agree with the four noble truths and the eight-fold path. And you are a Muslim only if you believe that there is no other god than Allah, and that Muhammed is his profet. Likewise, you are a Christian if you believe that Jesus is Christ.


Christianity is NOT defined by mankind.
But of course it is. And Christianity demonstrates just how manmade it is more than any other religion that has ever existed. No religion has had as many schisms, has had as violent schisms, or has as many denominations and sub-groupings thereof as precisely Christianity. In addition, you have countless non-denominational Christians (because they are no longer being persecuted as heretics). Sure, they (almost) all follow the exact same book, but it's not the Bible that defines Christianity. Christianity is defined by its theology, how Christians choose to interpret the Bible. And throughout the ages, Christians have never been able to agree on what exactly the Bible actually says. So even if the Bible was written by God (and that's a preposterously big "if"), Christianity is still very, very, very much defined by mankind.

Ask 10 different Christians what Christianity is, and you are very likely to get 10 different answers. Hell, 10,000 Christians could potentially give 10,000 different answers. Unless they are all right - which is logically impossible - that means that they cannot all be representative of what God had in mind. But which of them is right, and which of them wrong?

Like I said, they can't all be right. But they can all be wrong.

And what a ridiculous criterion, anyway. "Christianity isn't a religion because it isn't defined by mankind". This is so naive as to be infantile, as you seem to assume that the followers of all other religions believe their religion to be man-made. This fails at the very first hurdle, because everyone who follows a religion believes their religion to be true and divine. Christianity is nothing special in this regard. What's that? "But Christianity is different because it is true"? Well, guess what believers of all other religions are saying. You probably do not realise it, but you are acting as though your firm conviction in your religion is somehow proof of its veracity. It isn't.


Second, Christianity and religion function completely differently. Religion is basically man trying to reach heaven/paradise/nirvana, etc. through works and attempting to live a good life.
It's like that in Christianity as well. Unless you think you have a carte blanche to be a total asshole, which not even you believe. I'll prove to you that works matter to you, even if you insist they don't:

Can any action be a sin?

It stands to reason that if good works do not matter, then neither do evil works. Yes yes, there's this whole "works don't count because you shouldn't be able to boast about your good deeds", but even the Catholics agree with that. It's the thought that counts. So good works done for selfish reasons, of course they don't count. But good works done for the right reasons, of course they count. And you believe so too, because you believe that good works will naturally spring from right faith.


It's like the difference between two men stuck in a pit. One man is determined to get himself out by building a ladder with rotten sticks and debris from the pit. The other realizes that God has offered us a rope to climb out. Only one approach will actually work
So what about "God helps those who help themselves"? Isn't it presumptuous to expect God to get you out of everything without you having to lift a finger?


Christianity and religion are very differnt.
Not remotely. Christianity is an example of religion. By your logic, NO religion is a religion, because each major religion is different from the next. Shintoism, for example, has no more in common with Islam than it does with Christianity. Has actually a bit more in common with Judaism, in that it is hardly concerned with an afterlife at all. Islam and Christianity are both polytheistic derivatives of Judaism, thanks to the introduction of "THE DEVIL", a pagan concept, and an entity which is believed to be inferior to, but treated as more powerful than, God. You are going to jump up and down in protest at this, but to non-Christians this is quite obvious. Out of the three Abrahamic religions, it's actually Judaism that sticks out as different, as it has no such antagonist. And its concept of an afterlife is also completely different from that of Christianity and Islam.

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I'm agnostic. Being religious, nowadays,is often used as an excuse to be an intolerant asshole nowadays anyways.

Like some give themselves the right to be homophobic fuckwads in the name of their religion because "god is against homosexuality". Screw that shit.

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