are any of you guys religious?

[FreshCrabs]

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[Lady_V]

Nah, religion is too cruel to women to blindly follow.

 

[Still here]

Even though I don't go to church anymore... I still believe in God and the bible is real to me...is this religious someone tell me.....

 

[Pessimist]

I'm pretty anti-religious.

 

[Alpacachino]

Even though I don't go to church anymore... I still believe in God and the bible is real to me...is this religious someone tell me.....

That's definitely religious. Me personally, I don't believe in religion. I think it's just man made. But I do believe in a higher power out there.

 

[Arvayn]

I'm not religious, but I do love to study religion. There's some gnarly mystical stuff in there.

 

[NaiveRealist]

I was raised somewhat religious; then went through a phase where I was quite a staunch atheist. Now I am somewhere in between I suppose.

 

[meiherasoru_]

yes,
I believe in God

 

[Tobacco]

Not anymore. Unless you count Secular Buddhism, which I've been studying recently. I just avoid the most superstitious stuff, hence the secular part.

I was raised somewhat religious; then went through a phase where I was quite a staunch atheist. Now I am somewhere in between I suppose.

I like your username. Are you into philosophy?

 

[Man989898]

No, but I want to be....which religion to choose makes me agonise and stop eating, unfortunately. I can't get over thinking of so many decent muslims Christians and jews going to hell

 

[itsgone2]

Yes. Christian. Catholic, specifically. I struggle with doubt and I mostly wonder why I was made the way I was. Why my life got to this point because of it. And yet I've always felt I lived best when staying true to religion and praying at night. It's a pretty simple formula and I messed it up.

 

[NaiveRealist]

I like your username. Are you into philosophy?

Thanks. And yes, though my username is not intended to denote the philosophical view of naive realism. Much of my interest in philosophy originates from thinking of CTB. I think philosophical beliefs play an unusually large role in my reasons for CTB. Seeing that in your bio you self-identify as an efilist, the same may be true for you. Your bio also reads "Possible pro-mortalist." Isn't pro-moralism entailed by efilism?

 

[Hime]

I come from a religious family and I've grown to strongly dislike religion. It's used today as a way for people to excuse / validate their horrible actions. Yet, l can also see the true appeal of it, to treat others the way you want to be treated - the golden rule. But I don't know... God would also be too cruel to understand our reasons for ctb.

I'm an agnostic for this reason. It's not up to me to decide whether there is a bigger being judging us. I'll try to treat others with the love and dignity they deserve, and I'll hope that if there is a god up there, they'll judge me for who I am.

 

[Tobacco]

Thanks. And yes, though my username is not intended to denote the philosophical view of naive realism. Much of my interest in philosophy originates from thinking of CTB. I think philosophical beliefs play an unusually large role in my reasons for CTB. Seeing that in your bio you self-identify as an efilist, the same may be true for you. Your bio also reads "Possible pro-mortalist." Isn't pro-moralism entailed by efilism?

For some time, I didn't want to say that promortalism is the logical conclusion of efilism, because David Benatar has said antinatalism doesn't imply promortalism. The question of starting a life is not the same as ending a life. But think about it, no life, no pain.

I think I'm a weak promortalist because I think that decision should be up to every individual.

 

[LostZombie]

The belief of religion is irrational, there is a reason it's called "faith".

I dislike religion as a whole

I also dislike irrationality as a whole, like irrational decisions such as, drinking, drugs, and self harm.
I am okay with those since as long as you are educated on the risks, you can do whatever you want to your body, I'm not gonna tell you what to do with it.

Religion on the other hand... what education is there other than reading the bible, and reading about god being a dick to Job, and crashing out just after telling Noah; Ah yes the perfect being, crashing out.

Give me a damn break

 

[NaiveRealist]

For some time, I didn't want to say that promortalism is the logical conclusion of efilism, because David Benatar has said antinatalism doesn't imply promortalism. The question of starting a life is not the same as ending a life. But think about it, no life, no pain.

I think I'm a weak promortalist because I think that decision should be up to every individual.

I see. I might have been confused about some of the terms involved.

 

[Tobacco]

I see. I might have been confused about some of the terms involved.

Though I would call myself Voluntary Promortalist. After the Guy Bartkus incident, I'm concerned after seeing people interpreting promortalism as a call to kill people whether they like it or not. Of course, I can't agree with that.

 

[OzymandiAsh]

In a sense, sure.

 

[Maravillosa]

I am a practicing Catholic who is a Lay Carmelite. I also serve as a lector in my parish. Baptized in the Catholic Church in infancy to a lapsed Catholic father and non-churchgoing Methodist mother, I began to attend Mass on my own when I was ten years old. I was in the Orthodox Church (primarily in the Serbian Diocese of Western America) between 1990 and 2003, when I reverted to Catholicism. I strive to take my faith seriously, though often my faith seems to me to be gossamer-thin. May God help me -- and us all!

 

[Grog]

I'm agnostic. I want to believe in God, but it seems illogical to me.