Do You Believe In God?

[saechalyn]

Sorry if my options don't include someone. I'm sick and bored and nosey and just made these up.

Friendly reminder to keep any commentary respectful of others and their beliefs.

[Shade Everdark]

I was raised as a Lutheran, and yes, I was confirmed as such. Even then, I was doing it for my family. I spent too much time questioning the belief structure and (more often) making fun of it, to have really taken much of it to heart, to the consternation of my pastor and Sunday school teachers.

After I got confirmed I drifted farther and farther away from even the ideas of Christianity. I spent some a good deal of time in college being agnostic, but by the time I was ready to graduate, I was pretty much set on being atheist. These days, I call myself an atheist, but I might actually be an atheist-agnostic, I'm not sure. It depends on how you choose to define the two.

[Guest Megalicious]

I cant say that I ever believe in a higher so to speak. My mother was somewhat religious growing up, not in the tradition sense. I was raised a certain way, but I wouldnt say I ever believed in anything because I grew to even know at a young age that my mother was full of shit . Then of course there is my grandmother, what a head case. Catholic, on her pedestal constently judging (not that all catholics are that way, dont misunderstand me) I can remember she offered both me and my brother money so we would agree to get baptized ... I laughed in her face .. and my brother took the 100$ and did it. Fucking Megabeast.

[Marblez]

Sorry if my options don't  include someone.  I'm sick and bored and nosey and just made these up. 

Friendly reminder to keep any commentary respectful of others and their beliefs.

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I found your options quite inclusive. Good poll.

[Scary Guy]

I used to believe, but then again I used to believe in Santa too.

I'm an agnostic, I just say atheist to keep the bible thumpers at bay (harder to convert an atheist is what I think goes through their minds). I've got nothing against god(s) or a belief structure(s), I just think more people use it as a crutch than anything else.

[bean]

I'm not sure, but I think about it often.

I keep going back and forth on this one. There are times I don't believe in a higher power, and there are times that I do. When I do believe in them, it's the God and Goddess, nature and all that, so they would have influence on my every day life. The older I get though, the more I tend to lean towards being and Atheist.

[Lilith]

I was raised protestant and i think my personal beliefs are a bit obscure but i do have faith in god and i do believe. I think people, my self, my family needs some type of faith no matter which route you choose. I see where many religions over lap in basic beliefs such as right and wrong, harm non, though shall not kill, etc...... I do not discount any type of religion or know which path is right or wrong, nor is it my place to choose that for others or judge them for there beliefs. I do believe many with power, the teachers of religion often have there own agenda, interpret the messages we are supposed to receive wrong and are miss guided us with rules hate and damnation which is what gives religion a bad rap.

[Brenda Starrr]

I'm pretty sure that if it weren't for God, I'd be in a whole lot of trouble. Or dead.

[pharoh]

I'm pretty sure that if it weren't for God, I'd be in a whole lot of trouble. Or dead.

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Sombody needs to forgive your commy ass :cheerful

I believe in god/spirits and spirit helpers, etc. I am lakota, so my faith is not the norm, but in short I do believe.

[phee]

I don't have enough information....

[saechalyn]

I used to, but I don't anymore.

I might elaborate later, but probably not.

[phee]

I could go on and on.... but I won't I am not sure that many people really care what I believe, and I can't really blame them

[kellygrrrrrl]

Yes of course.

Not sure what really to understand about it. I am skeptical of modern religion. i think things have been written over and interpreted (sp?) incorrectly at this point. like a game of telephone.

not sure what/not/to/ believe

[torn asunder]

in my world, i *am* god... i create in my life exactly what i need to grow and learn and progress - the things i judge as being good, bad, and neutral. every hardship i've experienced, every bit of "good luck", every physical pain and illness, all created by me, and all controllable by me. whatever happens becomes something i can learn and grow from, and i take full responsibility for all of it. nothing in life is ever "somebody else's fault", and the sooner you realize that, the sooner you can take charge of your life & make it exactly what you want...

:fear

[Onyx]

in my world, i *am* god... i create in my life exactly what i need to grow and learn and progress - the things i judge as being good, bad, and neutral. every hardship i've experienced, every bit of "good luck", every physical pain and illness, all created by me, and all controllable by me. whatever happens becomes something i can learn and grow from, and i take full responsibility for all of it. nothing in life is ever "somebody else's fault", and the sooner you realize that, the sooner you can take charge of your life & make it exactly what you want...

:fear

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I keep running into this idea in various places. If this is true I'm really angry at myself! heh. Gawd, years of migraines, lost my sweet boyfriend, the love of my life, and all my fault?

It would be nice if it were true though and I could just *think* myself out of the bad situation I'm in, my girl's father would cooperate and I'd get to move out of this sorry town, my headaches would stop completely, etc?

hmm...

I can believe *some* things are caused by things we do, but every single thing? Is this like the concept in that movie "what the bleep"?

[Onyx]

I could go on and on.... but I won't I am not sure that many people really care what I believe, and I can't really blame them

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Please do post your thoughts.

This subject fascinates me.

I will try to post something more myself when I have time to give it more thought.

[odims_sphere]

religion is great for those who need it.

[Steven]

my my my but what a can of worms were opening.....

Yes.

YHWH.

Exclusively.

I beleive he's misunderstood most often, including by myself, but yes I beleive.

I also beleive in a literal Satan and angels and demons and the nephilim.

I beleive that yes indeed - i NEED god.

I've no problem with that. it does not however, equate to fear or lack of werewithall - I have no crutch, and i have no fear, and i go and do what I will because there is freedom in what i beleive. Anybody that knows me personally, knows this is true about me. I live my faith - it is not a game to me.

by the way i also need oxygen. food. sleep. and balance.

Love. I need that too.

I also beleive that my capacity to give it and receive it was severly limited prior to my faith.

Many times I've been accused of having a crutch.

yet I've never once met a man strong enough or brilliant enough to remove it. He does not exist. I am the immovable object. And if I'm simply ignorant or mislead then there should be easily identifyable evidence of that throughout my life in multiple areas. A failed system cannot sustain itself. Psychosis - cannot equip one to move thru life constructively.

I also beleive in fate.

And that God intervenes - and also - does not intervene as he chooses, not as I choose. I do not always understand this beleif or agree with it. But I recognize it.

And I do create my life. I do.

But I did not create life's spark in the womb. I am unable - to create life - from nothing. I am not a God. It starts and ends with him. But he also shapes it with me, if I'll let him.

I beleive in the church, and yet I also beleieve in its failure. And I also believe that Christ made this clear from the beginning, that this would be. So I do the best I can to work with what I can, and what I cannot work with - I leave behind me.

And I beleive that to know God one must seek him far beyond religion and charismatic teaching. And beyond our own comfort levels. ANd beyond the failures of our parents. And beyond the tragedies ofo our pain and the crimes committed against us.

this is what I beleive.

[Msterbeau]

I don't believe in GOD. I believe in "god". God is what I currently choose to call the beauty and the awe and the mysteries of life.

[phee]

I love theology arguments

[Msterbeau]

I love theology arguments

This is a discussion, not an argument. *Smacks Phee, then tells Rayne to smack him some more if he gets outta line again*

[AstralCrux]

Heh.... I have belief, but it's getting a bit jaded... More or less along the lines of hey lets watch to see how she does if we throw this karma at her. Oh, yeah, finally thought she was happy.... take some karma!

Man I hope I run outta karma soon!

[Crazed Vampyress]

I dont know. i only think about it occasionally. i dont rule anything out. i dont rule anything in. all i know is that i dont know.

[Dollardave]

I do absolutely. I'm a solid Christian and pray nightly but I'm perverse as well gotta find forgiveness for what I do somewhere ya know. I'm proud of my religion though always.

[Scary Guy]

I dont know. i only think about it occasionally. i dont rule anything out. i dont rule anything in. all i know is that i dont know.

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Brings to mind a lovely quote.

"I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure—that is all that agnosticism means." — Clarence Darrow