What is your faith/religion?
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and if you atheist/switched faiths, why did you do it and what faith did you choose?
im in a curious mood today
Christian. Only by the Grace of God am I alive today.
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and if you atheist/switched faiths, why did you do it and what faith did you choose?
im in a curious mood today
born in islamic nation (turkey), family didn't really do anything to teach religion (except trying to teach Arabic), I got more and more estranged from islam as I did my own independent research using online sources of the Qur'an
I don't think I can be considered a Muslim anymore, I don't follow what is written down as a must, this actually makes me eligible to hell, and it is all so ridiculous for me now.
I've talked with a lot of people, self proclaimed Muslims but their beliefs are far more deist than anything else, but they still call themselves Muslims but with their own additional beliefs.
Another note, I haven't read hadiths, only the Qur'an. The Qur'an is very short and anyone here could read it, it's the absolute words of god so it is essential to follow if you're a Muslim.
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and if you atheist/switched faiths, why did you do it and what faith did you choose?
im in a curious mood today
Atheist, I never was interested in spirituality as I believe religions are population control tools.
However, I recently got the chance to meet Sikh peoples, and I understand they define themselves more as warriors than group of religious people. I just fell in love with what they are, what they represent.
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and if you atheist/switched faiths, why did you do it and what faith did you choose?
im in a curious mood today
I am am ordained dudeist priest.
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and if you atheist/switched faiths, why did you do it and what faith did you choose?
im in a curious mood today
Grew up in a very religious home, in a very religious country (orthodox christian). I don't think I ever truly "believed", but I didn't want to upset my family, so I got married in church and baptized my kids. I am an atheist, and don't practice any religion now.
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and if you atheist/switched faiths, why did you do it and what faith did you choose?
im in a curious mood today
I'm an atheist. I grew up super religious and had a falling out with my church due to their "if someone belives different than our denomination they are going to hell" mindset. After that I found out that most other denominations are like that except for mormons but they are worse in other ways. Then I did more and more research that sort of caused what belief I had left to fall apart and now its kind of like Santa Claus, once you figure out its your parents putting presents under the tree theres no believing in Santa anymore
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and if you atheist/switched faiths, why did you do it and what faith did you choose?
im in a curious mood today
It's complicated but I used to be essentially atheist but now believe that there is something one might as well call "God" after studying philosophy. Essentially everything has a cause and something must be at the end of that chain, and we might as well call that "God." I also practice Christianity because I feel that it is good to have the community and structure that a religion can provide but I don't think that "God" necessarily exists in the way Christianity typically presents it.
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I once read about an african creed that states the original creator of reality created it because it found something existing was better than only void - in the sense of absolute nothing - existing, and thus set what we perceived as reality into building itself and let it to its own devise, to never again interfere or meddle with it, to then disappear.
It's a convoluted way to state: deal with your own mess; I just set the stage, you write and act your own play.
It's a good way to deny people of the easy cop out.
It was wrong then - nothing existing is far preferable to this world with all its suffering
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and if you atheist/switched faiths, why did you do it and what faith did you choose?
im in a curious mood today
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and if you atheist/switched faiths, why did you do it and what faith did you choose?
im in a curious mood today
Atheist. I was raised in various flavors of southern, whites protestant churches. Mostly the so-called charismatic, non-denominational, types, but also mainstream Southern Baptists, Presbyterians, etc, but not excluding some of the weirder cultish strains.
I left because I began to realize just how fucked in the head they raised me. I couldn't relate to regular people very well at all, and couldn't trust the judgement of religious people at any level. I got out and got the help I needed. I only wish I had done it sooner.
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I've kind of always liked the idea of Buddhism, but I've never really been able to grapple with it in a way that made sense (in a gut-feel sort of way) to me. I guess living somewhere that has a sizeable Buddhist population could make the difference.
What makes you feel that way?
I think there are many very different ways to approach experiencing it. If my first experience was at a temple in my local area I would very much be turned away….
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I once read about an african creed that states the original creator of reality created it because it found something existing was better than only void - in the sense of absolute nothing - existing, and thus set what we perceived as reality into building itself and let it to its own devise, to never again interfere or meddle with it, to then disappear.
It's a convoluted way to state: deal with your own mess; I just set the stage, you write and act your own play.
It's a good way to deny people of the easy cop out.
Imagine you intentionally become pregnant, give birth to a child, and then throw them in a dumpster. That's the god you described.
Except multiply that by billions of lives.
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It was wrong then - nothing existing is far preferable to this world with all its suffering
Tell me you are a broken human being without saying it.
I'm honestly sad for knowing you take life to such regard but there is more to reality and life than our own small sliver of experience and understanding.
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and if you atheist/switched faiths, why did you do it and what faith did you choose?
im in a curious mood today
I wasn't really raised with religion, but most of my family is Christian. I considered myself atheist as a young adult. But after many spiritual experiences, I believe in the unexplainable, but I'm not a fan of organized religion or cults.
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Imagine you intentionally become pregnant, give birth to a child, and then throw them in a dumpster. That's the god you described.
Except multiply that by billions of lives.
If such happens it is entirely on the responsability and choice of who did. No cop out, no resorting to a scripture to excuse actions, no easy forgiveness.
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and if you atheist/switched faiths, why did you do it and what faith did you choose?
im in a curious mood today
Quaker curious
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If such happens it is entirely on the responsability and choice of who did. No cop out, no resorting to a scripture to excuse actions, no easy forgiveness.
God is the one throwing the baby in a dumpster.
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God is the one throwing the baby in a dumpster.
You got my atention. Explain your point of view, please.
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You got my atention. Explain your point of view, please.
Who is responsible for birth defects? For natural disaster? For sickness? These things aren't choices and we aren't responsible for them, they happen because god created a cruel world for us to suffer and die in. God created the dumpster and threw us in.
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and if you atheist/switched faiths, why did you do it and what faith did you choose?
im in a curious mood today
Subgenius.
