You get baptized into the faith. Word on the street is, if a baby gets hit by a car before their baptism, they go to purgatory.

well, not a religious dogma exactly, I just meant that you believe the christian god created you. I'm not saying you know the christian god created you when you are a toddler :P

I am sick of having to justify by beleifs to you .......... I type the same stuff every time, yet it gets me no justification.

Onus Probandi.

It's called Burden of proof.

Not believing in God carries no burden. Saying there is a God does.

This is not directed at you, but it's directed at all the people who say there is a God.

It was "Limbo" actually.  Similar thing though.  But they got rid of that.

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18025/limbo

That's a pretty good thing for believers (and makes sense, too!). It must have been pretty cruel on a lot of people, e.g. a stillbirth and then ditched in limbo forever (hard on parents believers obviously).

Original sin is such an absurd and macabre idea anyway.

I believe in God myself.

I'm not going to chastise atheists or anything, but one reason I thought people go from religious to atheist is because they don't want to follow certain rules, especially ones that don't follow a moral lifestyle.

It is easy to have no faith in anything. I can't prove God exists; you're not really supposed to try, but there has to be something watching over us.

There is a specific word for it, but it is like if I said, "If God really exists, Madworld will sell 9 million copies right now...OH wait...it didn't!" It is pretty much blasphemy.

I could tell you a few stories that prove why I have faith, but that isn't really necessary.

Do tell us, because we are interested.

There have been many times where my family members have been in immediate danger, but yet are still here. One time I barely had money, but I gave $2 bucks away anyways, bringing me down to a few cents. The very same day I was walking home and I found $20, ten times what I gave away. I read in the Bible things increasing by folds, so I went with that.

Plus, not to sound like some jerk, I think I'm a really good person morally. God is pretty much THE "role model" to follow so I try my best to be good. I don't judge people because only God really can. I have hope in my future because I always have somebody looking out for me.

I do question some aspects of religion; I don't agree with everything, but I take bits and pieces of what sounds correct and build my character off that. With atheism, there's no incentive, no need to love. But since I'm not an atheist, I don't truly understand how atheism is really like morally.

Someone here can explain that to me........