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i just got through watching the omen, and during that movie, many religions were shown: christianty, satanism, other pagan religions, etc.
also my friend told me about his friend who is a jehovah's witness and some of their stuff got me thinking.
i was raised methodist christian in my home but turned my back on faith about a year ago. too many rules, inconsistancies, hypocrites, and it was all just very overwhelming, so i quit. and even now that i've given up on religion, i can't get it out of my head. its like i've been brainwashed. i'm not asking someone to give me back my faith, or to even lecture me.
what i'm asking is what do YOU believe? are you christian? satanist? wiccan? anything at all? please answer my question with why you believe in what you believe, and how exactly it works. thanks in advance :) (oh, and i don't judge. so even if you've made up some weird thing where you worship hotdogs, i won't mind) (link)
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I was raised Catholic like JustJess below me, and like her I also walked away from it when I realized that religion is a tool of control rather than a way to spread and share spirituality.
Brainwashing is a very, very good way to put it. That's what religion is. I'm honestly on the fence about God.
On the one hand, I have a hard time believing that our universe is pure coincidence and nothing more. There are rules to our very existence, to the universe around us, and we have no way to explain where those rules come from, why they exist, why the universe works the specific ways it does.
We can explain the structure of DNA, but we can't explain protein folding, why the body just does the things it does. The theory of evolution, which I believe correct in many generalities, does not explain the significant number of adaptations we see and the diversity of the animal kingdom. There are animals which have a place in nature, but we don't know why. Other less specialized animals could easily fill those niches, but instead we've got stuff like bats and the platypus.
On the other hand, I cannot reconcile the existence of a creator with the ideas about God professed in religion. I do not believe, if there is a God, that he's got a plan for each and every one of us. That's complete bullshit, the world is arbitrary. If God's plan is to be arbitrary, what's the point of saying it's a plan at all? God's plan is to be random?
I want to believe there is something more significant out there than "we're members of the animal kingdom, and our purpose is to survive" which is the pure nature explanation for our origins. However, when I read things like "God made us in his image" I realize that the reverse is what's really truth. If there is a God, no modern person I've met or heard of knows a thing about him/her/it/whatever. Modern God was made in man's image, formed to be a comforting, familiar figure.
Christianity is filled with more lies than truth. The bible is utter bullshit. The work of man, not the word of God. It's a series of lessons meant for an uneducated society that needs to be kept in line, a society which no longer exists in any form. I don't know if there's truth in other religions, but my experience seeing religion be nothing more than a tool for the domination of men (men specifically, not too many female priests/pastors/rabbi/etc out there) tells me that whatever God is, none of the major religions can bring you enlightenment on the subject.
Christianity especially. Everything Christian comes, originally, from Catholicism. Catholicism would still be murdering people to keep dissent and "heresy" quiet if they could be. They did it for hundreds of years before countries pretty much started telling them to go to hell. The bible was written by men (google the Council of Nicea to learn more) and the religions that resulted are artifices of men made to control others.
You've got to find your own truth in this day and age. I don't know what to say about non-monotheistic religions because I know little about them, Buddhism and Hinduism seem like they might at least lead to some inner peace, and do more for you than Christianity can. But that's guesswork from the little I know.
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i wish i knew you in person. we could have a very long discussion about this, and you bring up some extremely valid points. the bible is bullshit. i feel like we're living in a world full of fear of whats real, so we turn to something unreal, like a big guy in the clouds who snaps his fingers and hey! there's a world. anyway, thanks for the insight :) its much appreciated
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