How do you defined yourself religiously

[FrostByteParticipant 19005]

As long as you are not worshiping pussy, you’re ok by me.

If you rescue a damsel in distress, all you will get is a distressed damsel.

[AutoliteParticipant]

Grumpy wrote:

During Remembrance Day, I bowed my head and silently thanked the fallen in my own words.

I attended one Remembrance Day parade when I kept my head up during the prayer and looked around to see if I was alone. I was pleasantly surprised to see that quite a few others also had their heads up.

There was one female Cpl that I knew who had her head down. She was a Wiccan. I asked her after the parade who was she praying to. She told me that she wasn’t praying to anybody. She said that she figured it was just a good time to check the buttons on her shirt… 😀

[AutoliteParticipant]

Grumpy wrote:

I had NRE on my dog tags from 1981 until I retired, and I continue with that description.
No Religious Exhibitions.

Pre-deployment interviews by the Chaplain use to really p~~~ me off! Having someone who believes in an invisible, magical flying sky daddy determine whether or not I was mentally and emotionally fit to do my job was a colossal insult… 😡

[Doc HollidayParticipant 168]

I’m Catholic and I’m a sinner among sinners. I will live out my days fully participating in the sacraments. I see two things happening: I die a fool and disappear into nothingness or I die a man staring God in the face hoping luck is on my side. Lord have mercy.

MAGA

[TyrolvaParticipant 99]

I would call myself a Misotheist.

[markParticipant 451]

It depends.

With smart people I am an atheist because I am old enough not to believe in fairy tales.

With stupid people I am Christian because this is how you lower their defenses.

[Cú ChulainnParticipant 3910]

I am Catholic, and I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and everlasting life.

[Anonymous 42]

mark wrote:

It depends.

With smart people I am an atheist because I am old enough not to believe in fairy tales.

With stupid people I am Christian because this is how you lower their defenses.

Oh my, HOW F~~~ING INSULTING AND CONDESCENDING ,,, Please, by all means, do carry on…

[OldBillParticipant]

Besides being insulting, labels are also imprecise. I can best be “labeled” as an agnostic, although even that does little to explain my thinking on the issue.

I don’t know and, far more importantly, I can’t be bothered to know.

Like others in the thread, NRE was stamped on my dog tags. That drew the interest of the chaplain on my last ship and, after taking time to try to “chat” with me a few times, I quoted Epicurus to him:

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”

As he stood shocked that an enlisted man could quote a Greek philosopher, I reminded him that I split atoms for a living and would report any future “chats” to my division officer.

Do not date. Do not impregnate. Do not co-habitate. Above all, do not marry. Reclaim and never again surrender your personal sovereignty.

[AttonParticipant]

Christian unapologeticlly it makes far more sense than treating ones politics as religion.

A MGTOW is a man who is not a woman's bitch!

[markParticipant 451]

OldBill wrote:

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”

My point exactly. Like all Atheists, I call myself Atheist because it is easier than calling myself agnostic. Did something create us? maybe. I don’t believe any entity did, but if so then I am happy to believe it.

Just need the prove, that’s all.

[FrostByteParticipant 19005]

mark wrote:

With smart people I am an atheist because I am old enough not to believe in fairy tales.

With stupid people I am Christian because this is how you lower their defenses.

Does intelligence have an impact on beliefs? I don’t know. I’ve met a broad range of people in both camps of varying intelligence.

However, it does effect posts. See the irony here?

If you rescue a damsel in distress, all you will get is a distressed damsel.

[HeracliusParticipant 57]

The only reason why religious people are considered stupid (and many of them are) is due to the fact that they still constitute a majority.

The same way that nowadays a lot of 20 somethings and younger are led into the path of atheism by default through the cultural influences that are prevalent today. Being religious or not doesn’t determine your intelligence.

Far more important is whether you’re intelligent enough to question both positions in an intelligent manner, and do you have the curiosity to delve deep into it. Do you really think that just being an atheist makes you instantly intelligent? As if you couldn’t be dumb and an atheist at the same time. You really think that you’re smarter than Thomas Aquinas, Kierkeegard, Pascal just because you don’t believe in God?

What I see often with the atheist community online is that they’re very shallow in their view of God and religion. They take it all in a very YES or NO manner, leaving very little room for sophisticated arguments which is what theology and philosophy are about. They’re about having curiosity and openness to new ideas. Just saying NO GOD DOESN’T EXIST, PERIOD is close-minded. And of course, religious folk who are on that level don’t have any arguments for their position either, and just get frustrated if you start questioning them. So yeah, we should make a distinction between intelligent and dumb people, and there are plenty of them in both camps.

With that being said, I’m more focused on the experiential aspect of this question, like mystics and monks who try to reach a spiritual awakening using various techniques. We should judge religion and it’s claims based on our own experience, but only after we’ve invested time and effort in developing the faculties that would allow us to do so in the first place.

[Joey AlfioParticipant]

Hellenic Paganism.

Δεν υπάρχει τίποτε αδύνατο γι’ αυτόν που θα προσπαθήσει. - Μέγας Αλέξανδρος

[KeymasterKeymaster]

Baptised and confirmed protestant (Lutheran) and went to church and Sunday school until about 17. Lutheran has no confession, no celebrity Pope stuff, no rosary or worship of the Virgin Mary to the extent Catholics do , and condoms are OK.

By 18 or 21, I was definitely not “religious” and generally thought it was hocus pocus. Only went to church as a Christmas tradition. An atheist for the most part, but after 20 years or so, I suppose “God” came to mean something else to me. . .

The laws of nature.
Natural right and wrong.
“The way things ought to be”.

These things are real and you can see them all around. Even animals are born with it.

So no, I’m not really “religious” and I don’t ever talk about it IRL.
But I have an idea of what “god” is to me.

If you keep doing what you've always done... you're gonna keep getting what you always got.

[goodkid43Spectator 550]

If atheism (agnosticism) is true, then the highest form of humanity are sociopaths and psycopaths.
Sincerely,
Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot

Catholic. Pope John Paul II is my hero. He lived through Nazism (invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany), Communism (invasion of Poland during WWII and again after WWII) and an assassination attempt by the same Communists. He saw evil face to face….and did not flinch. He was very religious.

God bless, Michael

[AutoliteParticipant]

Heraclius wrote:

Just saying NO GOD DOESN’T EXIST, PERIOD is close-minded.

It’s exactly the same deal with saying that “the Tooth Fairy doesn’t exist”. Skeptics are such closed minded motherf~~~ers.

How do you defined yourself religiously

Pastafarian…

[IRuleMeParticipant]

Funny this comes up considering Greg-Honda and I were just talking on Zoom over the weekend about ghosts. Given that I consider myself an atheist, but have had a “ghost encounter” myself – it’s quite the conundrum I’m in.

[AutoliteParticipant]

IRuleMe wrote:

Given that I consider myself an atheist, but have had a “ghost encounter” myself – it’s quite the conundrum I’m in.

I’ve had ‘Sleep Paralysis’ episodes where you’ll think that you’ve ‘seen’ a real demon! But it’s just a hallucination that’s generated all inside your mind. I’ve never experienced anything that would make me think that demons (or ghosts) are real…

[IRuleMeParticipant]

Autolite wrote:

IRuleMe wrote:

Given that I consider myself an atheist, but have had a “ghost encounter” myself – it’s quite the conundrum I’m in.

I’ve had ‘Sleep Paralysis’ episodes where you’ll think that you’ve ‘seen’ a real demon! But it’s just a hallucination that’s generated all inside your mind. I’ve never experienced anything that would make me think that demons (or ghosts) are real…

Except my experience was recurring. Ask Greg about the topic. He’ll gladly share some of his experiences.

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