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Old 11-14-2005, 08:30 PM
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Note: My statement of a UU church being the "best" should be translated into being the "most welcoming and most in line to my beliefs of the churches I've explored." I think it could come off wrong. Sorry.
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Old 11-15-2005, 07:56 AM
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because the world view of judaism and it's views on G-d fall in line with my own.
it just feels right.
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Old 11-15-2005, 09:15 AM
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Like JW said, it just feels right. I don't like the daytime, or light, that much, so why should I be of a religion like Christianity that puts a strong emphasise on "comming into the light."
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Old 11-15-2005, 09:15 AM
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Because I believe Orthodoxy to be the Truth. I also, to be bluntly honest, find that it is far more internally consistent than the Protestant flavour of Christianity I grew up in.

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Old 11-15-2005, 10:03 AM
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I have no religion because I don't believe any other man/woman, alive now or in the past, can explain the unknown any better than I can; ie. none of us has the answers. It's completely out of my control now, my skepticism in religion. I couldn't force myself to pray or worship any god(s).
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Old 11-15-2005, 10:09 AM
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... I don't believe any other man/woman, alive now or in the past, can explain the unknown any better than I can; ie. none of us has the answers. .... I couldn't force myself to pray or worship any god(s).
You sound like a UU.
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Old 11-15-2005, 10:18 AM
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You sound like a UU.
An atheist in UU clothing? I've been meaning to do some research thanks to Lilithu, but I'm so damn lazy that I haven't gotten around to it yet. Maybe today....hmmmm
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Old 11-15-2005, 10:31 AM
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An atheist in UU clothing?
What is a Unitarian Universalist?

An atheist with children.


Ok, sorry for getting off topic....
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Old 11-16-2005, 11:43 AM
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People practice religion because inherently they all have a need to know God, to worship and to please him. There are many things that we can go without in life but when we lack spiritually that is when we are most lost, unfulfilled.
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Old 11-16-2005, 12:09 PM
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People practice religion because inherently they all have a need to know God, to worship and to please him.
Then what of religions that do not have a god to worship or please? Buddhism, for example. So obviously that is not why all people practice religion.
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