Are you religious?

[Moniker]

I don't think you can disprove God, so I guess I'm technically an agnostic. I usually just tell people I'm an atheist though. I never really thought about religion until I was a teenager. I wasn't convinced then. My feelings haven't changed.

 

[sick.faery]

not at all, i dont believe in anything

 

[LamisAgha]

Do you believe in God? Me not. Even the concept of the all-mighty thing who created universe and life seems nonsense. Humanity is too insignificant.

i was

 

[EternalShore]

yes, I am Christian.

I don't think you can disprove God, so I guess I'm technically an agnostic. I usually just tell people I'm an atheist though. I never really thought about religion until I was a teenager. I wasn't convinced then. My feelings haven't changed.

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[PI3.14]

No, I'm a negative atheist.

 

[Galahad]

I'm atheist, what god would create the suffering we see on this planet? Babies born in pain, a huge percentage of the world population in hunger poverty.

Oh sure, he's testing us! What utter bullshit, a benevolent creator would not riddle the planet with cancer or dementia let alone 100's more horrific diseases nor see billions of people living is squalor.

The bible may well contain many accounts of true stories and Jesus may well have existed but not as a son of god. Mary fell pregnant outside of marriage and to save herself from certain death by stoning they fabricated a story that changed the entire world for the worst for 2000 years - if Joseph hadn't had his way with her we wouldn't even be having this conversation.

Religion is the root of all evil on Earth - wars and terrorism abound from religion. Just look at Israel/Iran/Gaza right now.

The world would be an infinitely better place without religion.

 

[Alexandra0]

No, I don't think we are supposed to believe in every sentence in the Bible. A lots of teachings in the Bible are metaphors. For example Jesus spoke much in metaphors.
The Bible do neither confirming or denying life on other planets directly. But I see there are people who have "evidence" for their beliefs on both sides. I have no idea about life in other planets and actually I don't find important to me at all. What is your idea about it?

Then I also want to ask you the same questions that I asked @Raindancer and @Bismillah6925:

I would be interested to know if there is life anywhere else besides our planet.
1. There is absolutely nothing holding me here. I want to get to the other side as soon as possible. This world only causes me suffering.
2. Hell is here and now, at least for me. And non-existence is definitely not Hell

 

[NonEssential]

I'm agnostic. I don't care about religion and neither does anyone on my family. I don't know if God exists, and I don't believe it's ever possible to know for sure. Simple as that.

 

[Raindancer]

To@HereWeGo

My faith is what hs keep me here this long but in all honesty at times the struggle has been more than I ever imagined. First let me say I do not believe suicide guarantees you will be in hell and I would think most are not. As with everything if you are a Christian, it's a matter of the heart. As I have experienced, suffering can be more than one's ability to cope and I do not believe we are punished for that when truly in that space. As well as those who suffer mental illness.

My suffering is physical and for now right or wrong I compare my suffering to Jesus's on the cross and 9 times out of 10 my personal answer is I can bear this suffering. It's that one time out of ten where I question how much longer I can do this.

 

[Tired_birth_1967]

Analyzing the issue rationally, there is more evidence that there is no creator than the opposite. I was raised in a Catholic home and very early on I was forced to question God. When I was 13 years old, I saw my mother die of an illness within a few months. The first realization I had in the tragic episode was that faith in God or religion guarantee absolutely nothing in this life. But there was still another promised life. As the years passed and I matured, I realized the obvious: everything that exists about God or another life are ancient writings. From that point on, they are just reports. God has never been seen or heard. In a simplistic way, God is a figure resulting from the existential void that is difficult to fill. In addition, there is an entire survival model that also uses the existence of a God for various reasons. A methodically planned system where a God or creator could not be missing. Science will never prove the non-existence of God simply because it is not possible to prove something that does not exist. On the other hand, those who believe, actually believe in ancient writings, accounts of people, or their own minds. They do not believe in God. They cannot prove the existence of God. This question has become totally subjective and even irrelevant.

 

[myriapoda]

i'm not religious, but reading a specific someone's online sermons is pretty comforting for me to read. i'd like to believe a higher being regardless if they were real or not, because it gives me sense of purpose what i should be doing, feeling and thinking rather than aimlessly wondering and suffering about what my purpose should be. if i was less of a shut in, i think i would like to attend church service on Sunday's and do all that cheesy bible study stuff.

ironically, i never grew up religious. it is selfish of me desire wanting to be apart of religion while truly not believing any of it, there's no doubt about that. i like the idea of being religious.

 

[hedezev4]

I came to the conclusion that religion is just one of the organs in the body of society.
In the Middle Ages and earlier, there were no surveillance cameras, so anyone could do bad things and not get caught.
Or, if you do get caught — what's scarier: 10 years in prison, or eternal, fiery, most terrible torment.
And at some point in the evolution of society, this organ of population control appeared.
People began to fear something that was always watching them and would later punish them with eternal, most terrible torture.
And vice versa — promising eternal happiness if you behave well or 'correctly' (in a way that supports society's survival).
So, it's simply a convenient tool for controlling the masses.
You could also say that in return, belief gives you a constant buff — a comforting illusion or sense of purpose.

So I don't believe in God, or in many other things that lack evidence, foundation, or logic.

 

[The Actual Devil]

All I know for certain is that I exist.

 

[Ijustcantanymore]

No I am not religious. I don't believe in "religion". Religion is nothing more than a way to control people and fleece them.

If anything I am staunchly anti religious and think it all deserves to be erased from existence because it's ridiculous to abandon reason for things you can never prove and then base your life on those things. Absolutely absurd.

Also. All of the practices in religion, are all things that would qualify as mental health symptoms if you just took the word "religion" out of it.

Especially the talking to invisible people part. Normally that would get you thrown in a psych ward. But not if you're religious. Then no, it's fine to talk to people who aren't there.

That all being said. I am only human and have no authority to state whether there is or isn't a higher power. However. That doesn't mean if I did believe that it's some big magical white guy/brown guy in the sky. Or humanoid at all. What an absurd assumption for pathetic little humans to make in the first place.

It's all ridiculous. And all it does is bring toxicity, and now fascism. It's the destroyer of peace and freedom. I fucking hate it. I would happily burn religious texts. Bunch of made up fairytale fanfiction by much earlier humans who lived in the desert, were regularly dehydrated and always drinking wine and doing opium. Because that's a credible group of people. And that's just the plague that is Christianity.

Overall, it does more harm than good. But people have a romanticized version of it in their heads and they don't want admit what their precious fairytale are doing to real people in the real world.

 

[Skallagrim]

Yeah, I am religious. Very much so.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I'm undecided but I lean towards atheism. It's more that I hope there isn't a God. For the deeply sadistic and unpleasant things on this earth to have come about by accident is one thing. For them to have intention behind them is something far worse.

 

[phem___]

I am not, but i am open to it, i would love to be one of these people who reach religious enlightenment.