What Is Your Religion or Worldview?

[Vinayaka]

I practice Hinduism, Shaiva Siddhantha, which sees Shiva as Supreme.

Yeah, me too, but you knew this.

 

[Link]

I'm atheist with a space between a and t.

 

[Rival]

I'm a Kemetic Pagan.

My worldview is that of a transcendent, immanent God Who takes an active interest in humanity and is also an ethical arbitrator.

 

[Deidre]

After a long journey of departing faith and returning, I believe in Jesus’ teachings and strive to live in a way that appreciates and respects others. I fall short at times, but it feels organic now and I’ve found spiritual joy in it.

 

[thomas loebel]

Believe is not to see. The bible is "the word of god" as the spirit of gods words given so that from those concepts of mind we will then see gods relative truth last as "the word". "Religion tells us to re- ligion because that word has no meaning to all the same. No such thing as "ligion" and must be RE done. try "lie gion" and it does not work since "ligion" is already the lie first. only "legion" works when we must re ligion because. "satan is legion" means that is where we begin and then re do over and over as a legion that reaches love as the same re legion all the way.

 

[Link]

After a long journey of departing faith and returning, I believe in Jesus’ teachings and strive to live in a way that appreciates and respects others. I fall short at times, but it feels organic now and I’ve found spiritual joy in it.

Can you make a thread about what you believe Jesus' teachings to be? You can make it in Christian section if you don't want debate about it.

 

[Sand Dancer]

After a long journey of departing faith and returning, I believe in Jesus’ teachings and strive to live in a way that appreciates and respects others. I fall short at times, but it feels organic now and I’ve found spiritual joy in it.

I think that those who leave a religion, then come back, come to a healthier version of it.

 

[Link]

I think that those who leave a religion, then come back, come to a healthier version of it.

Sometimes. Then you got the crazies like me

 

[Deidre]

Or what you thought you knew, you didn’t.

 

[Link]

Or what you thought you knew, you didn’t.

Or we were outsmarting ourselves and being rebels (talking about myself)

 

[Yazata]

As far as metaphysical matters go, I'm an agnostic, so I was more or less forced to put 'nonreligious'.

But that isn't exactly accurate in my case since I've always had a powerful sense of the mystery of reality ever since I was a child. (It's what motivated me to major in philosophy in university.) My purpose in life, if I have one, is to penetrate a little deeper into the mysteries, in full knowledge that I'll barely scratch the surface.

As far as personal religious practice goes, I lean towards Theravada Buddhism of a modernist sort. The Buddhism of the Pali canon.

 

[Deidre]

Can you make a thread about what you believe Jesus' teachings to be? You can make it in Christian section if you don't want debate about it.

I could, do you have privileges in that section?

 

[Link]

I could, do you have privileges in that section?

I have it in Abrahamic, left handed, and Pagan ones. So all the sections in those three I have access to.

 

[Deidre]

I have it in Abrahamic, left handed, and Pagan ones. So all the sections in those three I have access to.

I’m in Abrahamic and LHP, too. And feminism. I’ll post something later or tomorrow.

 

[Link]

I’m in Abrahamic and LHP, too. And feminism. I’ll post something later or tomorrow.

Thank you and if you do it later than tomorrow it's no problem. At your convenience.

 

[Sakla]

You don't have to believe me and I'm quite serious. God revealed to me he is physical and has a wife they are not human, she does not have the power he has, he just cares for her and brought forth three beings spiritually not physically that are feminine in spirit that are his daughters. They are self-willed who is eternally 8 years old, Samael who is 9 years old and Sakla who is 11. They are not in human form, but are like energy dragons that love to care for animal and plant life. They provide comedy relief through people and animals to help with the overall moral of humanity so the hardships of life are bearable. Everything is a simulation and everyone is the opposite of what God would not be, that is why we are so difficult. Humanity was brought forth in this simulation to teach his three daughters what is wrong and right. Just as there are human families with a mom and dad and children, it is the same with God. His wife is not a Goddess, she is only for him and no one will ever see them. God revealed this to me and I used to be a Christian. After all, it does state in Matthew that the mysteries hidden from the foundations of the world would be revealed in the end. He also revealed he never made demons, angels and doesn't need help, that is why. It is bad throughout life because we are the opposite of what God would be and we make it that way. Animals are the only things that don't change, but have to adapt because of how we are. In the process of this simulation, his daughters have learned to appreciate their father, who is God more. Those who remain young at heart like them, are usually kind to others and care for living things, will also join his daughters as children in similar forms in a dwelling place like a heaven, but not the same abode as God. These beings who are his daughters are independent, creative and don't need babysitting like human children. They are so close to God, they complete each other's sentences. They are forever children, but mature in understanding. Those who through the adversity of this simulated experience remained like children in their hearts, become as they are. I didn't make this up.

 

[Aupmanyav]

You don't have to believe me ..

That is a relief.

 

[Meow Mix]

Quite simple for me, I'm a Catholic Christian of the Latin Rite, or 'Roman Catholic' as we are often called.

I view myself as being rooted in the apostolic faith handed down in the ecumenical creeds and the patristics (church fathers), as well as the broader sacred tradition of the church.

The social justice and mystical dimensions of the Catholic, and more generally Christian, religion are a particular passion of mine and strongly define both the relationship I have with my faith and the expression of it. The Rhineland mysticism of the medieval era, as represented by Meister Eckhart and Blessed Jan van Ruysbroeck, have been notably influential in my spiritual formation.

In light of the Second Vatican Council's Nostra Aetate, I welcome dialogue with other denominations and religions, regarding the truths contained within them as seeds of the Holy Spirit outside the church.

My political beliefs, which are directly indebted to my religious convictions, border on what might be termed "liberation theology", and so may appear democratic socialist or at least social democratic in character, but within an orthodox framework.

I think you’re very well spoken and interesting.

 

[Meow Mix]

I am a nontheist (I do not care for the baggage that comes with the term atheist due to all the definitional fights surrounding it: this is more clearly saying I am just not a theist rather than making you guess whether my atheism is “strong” or “weak” and whatever else; because I do not think it’s that simple. Expounded on below).

I don’t hold any theistic views, and whether or not I simply doubt them or reject them as false or noncognitive depends on the theistic propositions in question. (And this is why I think the usual atheistic terms are insufficient: one can be “strongly atheist” to a god defined as a square-circle while “weakly atheist” to a god ambiguously defined simply as a creator being with few concrete attributes to test for truth values).

I do think many conceptions of deities are noncognitive at worst (aseity-sovereignty paradox, Problem of Evil, etc.) and non-explanations at best.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

1.5 years ago, I started following Hinduism. I attached the New Age label to myself for awhile as well for a time, but New Age Hindu. I now have my own set of beliefs I follow, Shaivism, and I try to follow some of the ideas of Kashmir Shaivism. So yeah, that's still Hindu. I believe I'll maybe update my vote on the poll to Hinduism seeing as that it's basically a path I've been on 1.5 years.