Religion??

[turner]

Call me a freak or whatever....but I recently got a Satanic Bible...which i totally love. I just agree with all of it, which is random because i'm supposed to be Catholic.

So anyway, i was curious as to what religions everyone else followed....cz that kinda stuf really interests me.

Love to hear from you. xx

[NaomiOfC]

My families christian, but I don't believe in it. I like, just go to church so I don't upset my Dad. He like, is dead serious about religion and yeah. >_<

[neonlights]

my mum and dad are both christian, and my mum used to be a proper little hardcore hippy christian when she was younger..

and meeee, im a christian

[Ecomo]

Ahh, this came up yesterday after going to a funeral for the first time.
I reallyyy don't believe in religion right now (may change later on in life).

In the funeral the priest(?) was babbling on about a passage from the bible. Afterwards i was like 'Muuum, are you just going to throw me off a bridge when i die? I don't want a religious funeral x.x'. I don't see how it could not be religious.

Anyway, waffling now.
My nan is a big Christian and she tries to get us to go to church with her, especially on Christmas Eve. Bleh. Me and my siblings were all Christened but neither of my parents go to church :s
I can't explain myself very well so this is just babbling x[

[rippinkittin]

Ohhh noo, nooo no not a thread like this! I can bang on about religion until the proverbial cows come home

Me, well... my Dad's side of the family are canny hardcore Catholic, and I was raised as such, and I'm actually repulsed at the early indoctrination and brainwashing of small children... their minds are so incredibly young they'll believe anything they're told. Saying that, I lovelovelove churches, I still feel really safe in them, and a huge sense of calm, I suppose that'll never leave. I also love Catholic imagery, (well really, all religious imagery in general) although in a rather blasphemous way (i.e. one of my goals in life is to seduce a priest... :S) but I actually loathe all organised religion... it's corrupt, contradictive, and fully hypocritical. In catholicism especially the teaching of Jesus (whom I love, as a man. Jesus was purely a man, a great philosipher, with some excellent ideas ahead of his time, and a massive compassion... but he was still only a man,) have been taken and twisted and used to manipulate, brainwash and opress. Organised religion is generally behind, or at least the excuse for starting wars, fighting, and general terror, from pretty much the dawn of civilised humanity. I think personal faith is a wonderful thing, as long as it's been carefully considered, and the person in question is not simply believing because they've been told to believe, blindly following.

As for the question of a God, well I'm somewhat agnostic. I certainly don't believe in the God of religious origin (i.e. omnipresent, omnibenevolent etc etc) but potentially a higher power of sorts... but I don't know.

Oh dear, I really have written an essay. Sorry :S Feel free to philosophise

[xlouisex]

I can see why you're taking creative writing at uni! (that is what you're taking, right?)
i was very speech-like with lots of big intellectual words haha

personally... im an atheist

[xsilentdevilx]

tecnically im Jewish, but im not realy realigious and dont belive in that sort of stuff. But my family do sometimes go to some of the stuff. But i dont belive in god.

[tokiohoteluk]

May 15, 2009 10:39:12 GMT 1 Ecomo said:

In the funeral the priest(?) was babbling on about a passage from the bible. Afterwards i was like 'Muuum, are you just going to throw me off a bridge when i die? I don't want a religious funeral x.x'. I don't see how it could not be religious.

You can absolutely have a non-religious funeral that is just like a regular, religious funeral. My uncle died a few years ago and he was not religious and he was gay, so not exactly in line for a religious ceremony, lol. To honour him we had a humanist funeral that talked nothing of religion - just celebrated his life, the people he loved, his partner Tony and the things he did. All songs played were Beatles songs because they were his greatest love throughout his life. It was a lot more emotional imo because the text was written by my mother and the Beatles songs played meant so much. It still had an officiary or whatever they're called, but it was humanist, not religious.

Religion is not something that you can't 'escape' as it were, but unfortunately a lot of children and young people grow up thinking it's a non-optional part of life. One of the scariest things as a kid was, for me, the confusion about religion. My mother is a 'Christian' and my father is a 'Muslim'. Quotation marks because they are non-practicing. As a child I was often confused. I had not been christened or baptised, I wasn't confirmed, I didn't have a bar mitzvah - I generally just didn't understand where I fit in. School and other children had taught me that you are supposed to be a Christian or Jewish because they were the religions represented in my school. When I would ask my parents: what am I?? They said: we want you to choose for yourself, that is why you are neither a Christian or a Muslim. But they never elaborated. They never explained what that meant. I had some kids learning books about Islam because school covered the Christian religion and I was always interested (still am) in religion, but to me they're just stories and myths, like Robin Hood or King Arthur and Merlin.

Now, of course, I am eternally grateful to my parents for their liberal (lazy lol) attitudes and I've approached religion with an outsider's cold eye. I am an atheist and am against organised religion quite emphatically.

Claire

[omgitsmollyx]

WELL,
i was christened when i was a baby, but that was cos my mum wanted me to have someone who was always going to be there for me (godparents) as she was a single mum, i also went to a church of england primary school but i think thats cos it was the nearest school to us. i have been an atheist since i understood what religion really was, so about year 2. i can remember telling my friends i didnt believe in god (they all did cos its a christian school so most people are christians there) and they were all so confused. i think also the fact my school was just sooo religious really inflicted the atheism on me, we had to go to church sooooo much. i thought all schools were like that so when i found out my friend who didnt go to a church school didnt go to church i was like whaaaaat?

but also, i think with all these religions at the moment that all have different gods, of course to each religion they dont believe in all the other gods from other religions, so they would think every other religion is wrong. and isnt hinduism like the biggest religion in the world? so surely the hindu gods are the most likely to be real..? i dont know, i'm writing like an essay here

i may come back and post more another time.. ahha

[Harriet Listing? Hmm I like it]

My family is Christian, but I'm not religious. My dad's side of the family is mostly, but my mums side isn't. I think my mum is abit confused, because she sometimes read the bible, but doesn't believe in it.

[Mikey]

I agree, Molly, and I think Claire- after skimming through . I don't like it when religion is forced upon children, so they grow up with it and know no different. Like my Primary School doesn't call itself a Christian school, but it made us sing Christian hyms and pray at lunch time, which is almost brainwashing to follow the same religion

[omgitsmollyx]

we had to do that too ^^ praying at lunch and singing hymns eurghhhhh.

haha last night i found my sister reading the bible :L she goes to a christian infants school, but not the same as my old one. she is so interested in it and believes in god and all that.

my grandma is also a strong christian, she hates it when i say oh my god or oh for gods sake. its reaaaaally annoying!

[Leannena]

My family's Christian but I'm atheist and my primary school was a Church of England school and we went to the nearby church at harvest time and stuff. I think religion is rather interesting but to me it's only fictional. I got the given the bible before I left the school which I probably still have somewhere but I don't think the stories ever happened. I doubt my whole family is very religious though, as we don't go to church or read the Christian holy book.

[Ecomo]

May 15, 2009 14:05:34 GMT 1 tokiohoteluk said:

You can absolutely have a non-religious funeral that is just like a regular, religious funeral. My uncle died a few years ago and he was not religious and he was gay, so not exactly in line for a religious ceremony, lol. To honour him we had a humanist funeral that talked nothing of religion - just celebrated his life, the people he loved, his partner Tony and the things he did. All songs played were Beatles songs because they were his greatest love throughout his life. It was a lot more emotional imo because the text was written by my mother and the Beatles songs played meant so much. It still had an officiary or whatever they're called, but it was humanist, not religious.

Claire

Ah, that's good. I just had no idea about funerals as i'd never been to one and haven't exactly done any research into them =/

[B.eckii ♥]

Though I'm not really religious, I have Pagan beliefs and I believe out of any religion it's the 'friendliest' if that makes sense? I mean, most religions seem to be against one another nowadays. The whole idea of re-incarnation I do like to believe in, and the 'resting place.' Hell isn't a place where all bad people (sinners) go. Instead Hel, is a place to rest before choosing whether to be re-born or not. Whereas Heaven does exsist (more commonly known as Asgard) is the final resting place.

It's such a more beautiful way of looking at not only life, but death. One is encourage to be an individual, to discover one's self and responsibility as a whole. And rather than God there are Gods and Goddess' - Mother Earth being the most well known of all of them.

Paganism is generally lovely. Lol! There aren't any rules to adhere too, as a child there is a 'naming ritual' but unlike Baptism it doesn't tie them to the religion at all. It's all about loving and respecting every form of life - and about doing what you want to do, following your own path. And even better, it is a religion that is about truly loving and honouring one's family and their friends. (:

It's peaceful, and I like that about it.

Though I do hold slight reservations for some religions for what they've done (though I do realise that it's quite a select group of nasties who carry them out.) I do like to know about them, I loved R.E in secondary school and was always putting forward my points of views and stuff. But yeah.