What is your faith/religion?

[Guest]

and if you atheist/switched faiths, why did you do it and what faith did you choose?

im in a curious mood today

[tabbsthebat@pawb.social]

Im a romuvis :3

Used to be an atheist before ig

[ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com]

Buddhist, I was more Christian. Growing up in a fundamentalist church and becoming more intellectual drove me to ask big question that Christianity didn’t answer for me. Causes and conditions allowed me to encounter Buddhism when I was living in Japan and it’s grown in me ever since. I really liked how Zen meditation made me feel. Very different from being told to pray but there was nothing and also no unstructured. Buddhism has clear practices and results. I know it has “supernatural” elements but it’s all mostly logical to me and I like that

[davidgro@lemmy.world]

Grew up in a Christian household, but grew out of that kind of superstition around high school or a bit younger. My parents never did, so that and politics caused a bit of tension, but never enough to keep us from talking to each other, visiting, etc.

[Guest]

Really happy for ya, parents usually don't take these things so well, mine would probably disown me if I ever came out about having different beliefs

[Guest]

What is that?

[Guest]

I never heard anybody make fun of Buddhists or slander them, quite a lovely religion ️

[morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de]

Baptized catholic by my parents, did all the ritual things all my youth until i was 16. Then i was old enough to try to understand it, got exposed to other schools of thought, and it all collapsed like a house of cards.

I am now fully atheist, and I find religion ridiculous, like fairy tales for adults, based on nothing. Organized religions are also usually structures of power for men. This can all go.

My spirituality would be:

We are made of star-stuff. Temporary piles of molecules which work together and stop after a while, to recombine into something new. I don't need to be remembered, I don't need to leave my mark. Just try to do no harm, any maybe help others along the way, while on this ball of rock and water, tumbling into the immensely empty void.

[disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world]

Spinoza’s god fascinates me enough to be agnostic rather than an atheist with conviction.

[tabbsthebat@pawb.social]

Romuva is lithuanian paganism :3.. kind of obscure everywhere outside the country

[ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com]

That’s kind of you to say but there are certainly plenty of problematic Buddhist groups, like any social group.

What about you?

[ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com]

Could you explain further

[Guest]

Me? Id say I'm currently agnostic, used to be Muslim, problem is, I'm still living in the Muslim country, so I just kinda act like I'm Muslim to avoid getting into trouble for my beliefs.

I don't want to get too deep into it, I can write a whole essay about the religious attitude in my country and how I feel about it, but I won't

[iamthetot@sh.itjust.works]

I was raised Christian, went to church every Sunday and believed as a kid. Then I stopped believing in all my imaginary friends. Being slightly cheeky, but also I genuinely just grew out of it as I learned more about... Everything, really.

[Guest]

Damn I thought there would be more religious people, it is all exchristians in here

[disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world]

It’s more of a philosophical god than a being with consciousness. Simplified, everything in existence is god, but individual things are not god on their own. He clarified later that god is “the sum of the natural and physical laws of the universe and certainly not an individual entity or creator.” Seeing god as more of the framework of existence itself is a very compelling way for me to perceive the connection of all things without a bearded man in the sky.

[protist@mander.xyz]

Atheist. Religion is an explanation of the world that's made the fuck up. I think people make shit up to explain reality because accepting uncertainty is difficult, but that doesn't make it ok. The world around you exists, just like it is. There is no special place you get to go if you follow the right set of rules .

[carbonatedpastasauce@lemmy.world]

My mom let me figure it out for myself. I wanted to go to mass with grandma so she let me.

I quickly figured out the nonsensical nature of what I was seeing. When I found out I had to do a bunch of extra shit before I could get in line for Jeezits, I lost all remaining interest.

Been an atheist since. Probably was around age 12.

[adarza@lemmy.ca]

i think it comes with the territory; the kinds of users that lemmy attracts--and doesn't.

[masterflamingo@lemm.ee]

I was raised in an atheist/agnostic household. nobody ever came out and said we were atheist or agnostic, but no one went to religious services Weekly or on holidays. There was never talk of prayer or worship or god.

Both my parents came from different religious backgrounds. One parent is Jewish. The other is Christian, though I would argue that their parents were atheist/agnostic as well.

We celebrated the holidays that involved presents so Christmas, Hanukkah and Easter. I didn’t really learn any of their religious symbolism behind these holidays until I was much older and it wasn’t through my parents. Part of it was cultural, osmosis, and part of it was curiosity about these religions when I figured out what they were.

We lived in a pretty big Jewish community or so it wasn’t uncommon to get invited over for Passover dinner at someone’s house.

I went to Synagogue with Jewish friends and church with Christian friends. My friend’s mother holiday taught classes at their synagogue so I do remember going and learning about Judaism and the holidays there but I didn’t last very long. I didn’t really enjoy it, I must remember not wanting to go back in after our little recess/break and watching fiddler on the roof.

When I was curious about Christianity and wanted to know why my friends went to Sunday school or church on the weekends, my mother took me to a Unitarian church. We didn’t attend for very long and I don’t remember being particularly interested or involved in any of the activities they were doing for the kids.

Now I would say, I am firmly an atheist.