chapset said:
vlad321 said:
chapset said:
after reading some of your posts, it's clear to see that some of you do believe and some don't, am just curious why people believe and why not, i mean by that, is it because you where raised in that environment or did you decide to believe by yourself? same question for the non-believers.
personally I feel like we are spirituals beings and that's why most of humanity believe in some kind of god, my mom is a protestant but she never forced me to go to church while i was growing up, so that's maybe why i don't believe that much. |
There was no religion in my house, either anti or pro, and I remember my mom being extremely pissed when my grandmother taught me to pray, but she still didn't say anything. My beliefs are my own, I formed them by myself and my parents had absolutely no effect on them. I didn't know they were diehard atheists until after my belief's basis were formed. Yes I knew about Jesus and different religious ocurrances and holidays and stuff, but my parents never took a pro or anti stances on those, I am after all a Christian in terms of culture, atheis/agnostic/deist in terms of eligion.
This is why I also hate religion, it spreads by parents stuffing it into their child's head at an early age when the child thinks that their parents can NEVER be wrong. It is a horrible practice and my theory is that if it stopped religion would outright die out. Many things are taught at an early age that should never be taught and history is rife with examples of what happens when ideas are stuck into children's heads, one needs to look no further than World War II to see its effects. It's also the #1 reason why I hate religion with a strong passion, it's isidious, and targets the most vulnerable creatures of humanity.
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yeah, i get what you're saying.
anybody else has something to add?
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That people who outright hate religion probably have anger issues and is probably projecting.
Also, Kids are also taught to believe in Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, and any number of other things... that eventually they don't believe in. If religion had nothing real to it people would just not believe in it.
Not sure what WW2 had to do with religion/people taught something as kids though... he really lost me on that one.
As for me... I wasn't raised any religion... though did have a strong feeling of some sort of "god" some of which caused by very measurable circumstances.
After which, i studied up on just about every religion i could... even some not practiced anymore... as well as arguements for atheism... and decided i wasn't too happy about any of them.
The Christian god seemed "most right" but at the same time a lot of stuff people tended to preach seemed counter to what he said, and in general the bible just seemed like it was cobbled together by the Romans to make a more docile religion.
So, i just took up the prospect to be who i was. Since god made me that way anyway... and that God would let me know what he wanted me to know. Since he was god.
It's worked pretty well for me so far. It's kinda like a Christian Deism. Though who knows. He might even not be the particular Christian God... might be someone else. But either way, i think i've got a feeling of the right guy.
'I don't always know what the right thing to do is, my Lord, but I think that the fact that I want to please you, pleases you.'
You know, if i'm wrong. It's not like i lose anything anyway. Well unless it's some other god. In which case... whoops?
