Let's Coexist!

I'm an atheist, and I've always found Paganism (Modern reconstructed and ancient) really interesting and quite beautiful. If I was going to be religious, I know what I'd be

 

Idk what faith i am, i'm confused, but it was assumed i was like my dad so Bani-Muslim, I always admired animism because it's what makes my culture have some really cool rituals and dances that i like to preform and watch.

 

I'm Catholic (sort of), but I think that Judaism is quite interesting. Its history is fascinating to me every time I read it.

 

Recently an atheist, though perhaps one more inclined towards theism than other atheists might be. I really admire Sikhism, though, with its emphasis on helping others, and what I know of Paganism from friends is a mixture of scary and beautiful (I can't really be more specific). Other religions have always fascinated me.

 

I'm an atheist (which is an epistemological stance, not a religious faith), and I just wanted to second that I like Sikhs for a number of reasons. 1) their headdresses are totally awesome, 2) I like the whole carrying a knife thing, 3) having an ethical stance around fighting evil is exactly what we need right now.

A friend of mine follows in Ásatrú traditions, and he and I have almost the exact same ethical view, so I wanted to shout out to that religion. Basically, if you're okay with dirty love, and fighting evil, there must be something right about your religion.

 

I'm not an atheist, but I don't link God with any religion. I like the philosophy of Buddhism

 

Same here

 

i'm a Buddhist (though i wouldn't say the best one out there by ANY means lol), but i'm fascinated by the Christian and Islamic faith. i personally love stories, so the allegory within both of the religions really intrigued me and they're just interesting reads too.

 

Hm, well, I've never been religious, I see religion as a form of social control, designed to keep people in their places. I do however understand that this is only my oppinion and that it plays a very important role in many people's lives. Anything that encourages people to behave decently and with compassion towards one another has got to be a good thing, it's when it crosses over into generalised biggotry and hatred I don't like. England is a christian country, it's the state religion, and I don't like to see schools taking it off the curriculum, I think they should be taught about all the major world religions. Not because I necessarily want kids to grow up as christians, but rather that, a, they should be given the knowledge, then they can choose their own path, and b, because so much of our culture is shot through with religious references, that to not be aware of the story of Adam and Eve, for example, would mean they were missing a large chunk of cultural understanding and it would probably result in a complete disconnect of the social deixis between the generations. This is probably not the answer you were looking for, it's the typical kind of pompous answer you can expect from me lol.

 

I'm an atheist but I like Buddhism. It's peaceful, idk... I think it's great because to be happy it only depends on you.

 

If pushed, and after reading the other posts, I feel I should be, I would say that I have a lot in common with the Society Of Friends, Quakers. I don't dig on violence and I believe that the power of god, if there is such thing as god, exists within every one of us. It's up to us to decide how god manifests itself.

 

l love the Quakers LMP. l did an internship with the American Friends Service Committee.

The liberal Quakers dont believe in God necessarily but something close to the idea of it, like l do. Although some believe in God in the traditional sense, it's a very individual decision.

 

I was born Catholic, and even spent grades 1 to 3 in an all-boy boarding school run by nuns (maybe that's why...?), I got the full religious treatment.

Several years later, when I was 24, after many years of fascination and learning I converted to Judaism, with the help of a kind Rabbi and his family, I chose to live a modern orthodox Jewish lifestyle for several years. I learned some fundamental things about being human and the wisdom of centuries. I learned of God and men and their relationship, about ethics, about bringing holiness down to earth, in full and practical expression by living with both positive and negative commandments within the context of what is loosely translated as the "way", the Law or halacha which seeks to cover almost every detail of life from food to ethics to marriage, etc..

But now, after 25 years, I have lost the practice if not the faith. Yes, homosexuality is hardly compatible with the more orthodox dimension of the religion, and coming to terms with being gay has caused tremendous cognitive dissonance within myself, but I cannot live a lie anymore and I will have to deal with the contradictions (as many other gay and orthodox Jews must, and do).

I saw religion as a kind of instruction manual for life, but I realized later that sometimes the manual has to be tossed aside, and that a life has to be created, almost artistically. I realized that this act of creation is perhaps the most appropriate expression of the divine within oneself.

 

^This. And for many reasons.

 

l have no issues with the Orthodox set but for obvious reasons they do not endorse male-male relations lol. And have some extreme views relating to the body, otherwise.

lt got to be a bit much when an Orthodox family friend would call us on his cell just to ask us to come turn a light on during shabbat xD

 

I've been raised as a Catholic, but I am now realizing that I am agnostic, which is basically believing that an outside force governs us, but cannot necessarily be acknowledged.

I have always believed in coexisting, even since I was little. For the past few years (once I knew what it was) I have supported LGBT people (before I realized that I am one ), as well. We are all just people

 

Agnostic; If I have to chose a religion then I would have to go with Shinto, the decentralized regional version. Simply because it (traditionally) does not try to impose a strict moral code (no concept of Sin).

 

[/QUOTE]l have no issues with the Orthodox set but for obvious reasons they do not endorse male-male relations lol. And have some extreme views relating to the body, otherwise.

lt got to be a bit much when an Orthodox family friend would call us on his cell just to ask us to come turn a light on during shabbat xD[/QUOTE]

Could'nt agree more, and besides, that kind of thing was probably "not permissible" LOL