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Dont blindly follow religion
Well I have noticed that many religious people seem to be very intolerant of other religions even though there isn't any solid evidence to back them up. And that many people just blindly follow their religion without ever stopping to think about it.
I'm atheist and I have tried to stay very tolerant of religions but recently I have been getting more and more intolerant of those who stick by their religion without ever questioning it. I do not like the idea of organized religion, I do not mind people believing that is true, I am all for that, but the actual organized religion takes away what you are meant to believe in, which is whatever you think is honestly true, I have listened to many different religions and why they dislike the whole atheism thing and why they think that their religion is right, I honestly believe that most-all parts of atheism is true, not because I was raised that way(i was raised a christian) but because I had thought about it a lot and thought that atheism was true. That I do not mind, if you think about your religion compare it in an un-bias way against the other religions and you still believe yours is true for more reasons than just you were raised to believe it, then I can respect you, if you believe in anything that your priest, rabbi, etc... tells you just because they are your priest or rabbi or watever then I really cannot respect that.
I have a thing against organized religion in general, it just distracts people from trying to find out about what they truly believe in, I urge you to take some time and think about what you truly believe, stay unbiased or it will not work and you will be even worse than before.
I'm atheist and I have tried to stay very tolerant of religions but recently I have been getting more and more intolerant of those who stick by their religion without ever questioning it. I do not like the idea of organized religion, I do not mind people believing that is true, I am all for that, but the actual organized religion takes away what you are meant to believe in, which is whatever you think is honestly true, I have listened to many different religions and why they dislike the whole atheism thing and why they think that their religion is right, I honestly believe that most-all parts of atheism is true, not because I was raised that way(i was raised a christian) but because I had thought about it a lot and thought that atheism was true. That I do not mind, if you think about your religion compare it in an un-bias way against the other religions and you still believe yours is true for more reasons than just you were raised to believe it, then I can respect you, if you believe in anything that your priest, rabbi, etc... tells you just because they are your priest or rabbi or watever then I really cannot respect that.
I have a thing against organized religion in general, it just distracts people from trying to find out about what they truly believe in, I urge you to take some time and think about what you truly believe, stay unbiased or it will not work and you will be even worse than before.
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But oi, you sound like a charming lad. Your head is firm on your shoulders. I'm glad there are still people thinking with their own minds. x
1. People who lack confidence in themselves use religion as a crutch: Something bad happens and they say "God is trying to teach me something" and no lesson is learned. Look at what you did wrong and larn.
2. How many wars are fought over organized RELIGION???
3. Following a religious moral code tends to make a person self righteous and arrogant.
4. Trying to live up to this high moral code creates LOTS of guilt and repressed emotions which makes this person just seem "strange" to others. They tend to lie more to cover things up.
Just some reasons I don't follow religion!
Be free!
P.S. the Jehovahs witness are starting to come back to my neighborhood does anyone know how to get rid of them. Last time I had to perform a faux Satanic Ritual that they could see from my front door to scare them away and then they brought an entire convent to try and exorsize my house at which point I called the police to arrest them. Please post if someone has less of a drastic method of sending them away. Thankyou
My bro goes to this Christian group, but they never do anything religious, they just eat chick fillet and pretend like it has something to do with god. Really it's more of an excuse to eat chick fillet every week.
Yeah Buddhism is my fav religion because of the lack of wars and all that bullshit that made religion the worst thing to happen to this world.
as for hating organized religion, its just nobody likes when they are being told that they are wrong, neither you nor me, (so we are both right and wrong,) so maybe thats why you are against it, cause leave it up to the extremist to represent each religion, even the atheist have their extremists. but just know that not every person in every organized/(unorganized?) religion shares the same ideas.
I get where you're coming from, and i can completely relate...well almost. I happen to live in a very, shall i say, "God - faring" community, and because of the way i dress and act i often get rediculed. I dont do anything to disrupt the religious nutjobs' way of life so why do they insist on drawing me into a religion - ANY branch at that. Its rediculous. I personally dont belong to any religion, and proudly. In my experience, religions are far too similar to cults.
Growing up, my father's side of the family was mormon and my mother's christian, they fought constantly. See, i was the f**k up. I was the little girl who questioned everything, and got beatings as an answer.
Once, i was in sunday school where we all had to read aloud a verse in the bible. after hearing all the other kids and realizing that they preached of treating all people nicely and such, but just before the service (as i recall) they had not let a homosexual mother's child join. "ITS WRONG," they said, "HOMOSEXUALS GO AGAINST NATURE"
I was baffled. So when the thought of that morning suddenly sprang into my head, being the type to leap before thinking, i blurted out "Hey why cant that kid come and read with us? i thought we treat EVERYONE nicely."
That little, innocent comment landed me in the closet for the remainder of the school day. I was left in there cold, scared, and alone, all because i raised one simple question.
Now, I realize of course that not all religious people are radical like that, but that is just a good example of what happens if you question religion. People just DONT LIKE IT. thats fact. anyway i need to be leaving now, bye for now everyone. :)
i totally agree that many religions serve only to keep people from any sort of personal or spiritual (if they chose or believe) growth. it is nothing more than a crutch for people too lazy to think for themselves. there are, of course, some exceptions in every religion.
"Think as I think Or your are Abominably wicked. You are a toad" And after I had thought about it I said "I will then be a toad" - Stephen Crane
Regarding other religions i.e. Sikhism, Buddism, Islam etc, I don't believe they have it right but it's up to them what they believe, God gave us free will. The only kid of religious beliefs that I do not agree with are those that cause pain and suffering to others with no happy end result. And all religions have people who believe in things like that, be it Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, atheists, agnostics etc.
But in the end your free to believe whatever you want.
TOTALLY normal. sadly, everyone in my life condemns me for thinking the way you think.
i would consider myself a christian... but im definitely not your TYPICAL christian. i thrive on questioning it.
and organized religion has corrupted everything.
i just do my best to live by the bible.
i think its actually ridiculous to be expected to "know the complete truth" if you're not ever questioning it. that's not faith. that's ignorance and religion as a crutch/ excuse.
but i must say, living out the bible... it just fits. but that's getting into the whole "is there really good and bad?" "what DEFINES good and bad?" etc.
Expecting people to seek the "right" god seems like a sloppy way to run a universe. Since all religions are more or less arbitrary and mutually exclusive, it more or less follows that they all are made up.
I go to church fairly regularly, though actually I find it a crashing bore.
Have been a member of several different religions in my life. Did not find much satisfaction in any tho.
Came close to becoming a Jehovah Witness. Also, once nearly joined the Catholics. Was not raised very religious, tho my Mom was always telling people we were Baptists. (Oh, yeah, in what sense? We never went to church.)
Have considered myself to be an agnostic. I really do not know what I believe, if in fact I actually believe anything.
I think the JWs are probably right about Hell - that it just means the grave and nothing more. No place of torment in the Great Beyond.
I'm Deist by the way