Curiousity: What faith do you follow?

[ammre]

What faith/ religious affiliation/belief structure/motto of life do you follow?

I was raised catholic but i'd lable myself as an agnostic living like a catholic. Catholistism has become almost a tradition for me.. i love my church, i love the people who go there, i love the warmth i feel during midnight mass and the children i see on the aster sunday mass... i just don't agree with all the doctrine of the church. I pray and i try to be a "good" person. I tend to live by: "Do unto others as you would have you done unto yourself" and i figure i get bonus points if i help take up other people's burdens.. maybe the help will come back to me in the end.

so what do you believe.. and if you don't believe than what rules do you live by?

 

[Quint]

Raised and confirmed Lutheran but when I got to college I dropped it for reasons of skepticism. Have never fully stopped believing in a very personal God much like the Christian one but I am still unable to reconcile my mind with a faith in Christian dogma. This is one of the biggest areas that I know I need to grow and develop in myself because I'm not satisfied yet.

 

[Richard49]

I was an evanglist for the churches of Christ
That was years ago
I still attend

 

[Luna_Wolf72]

My belief system is essentially pagan (no not wiccan). I am a practicing shamaness (or medicine woman). My beliefs are based on years of practice and study and have evolved from 7th day adventist to atheist to what i am now. I do believe in essentially one god (though for me there are 2 aspects of divinity both male and female). I have shaped my beliefs to include everything of worth from other religions and it suits me to be this way.....ok...waiting to see what others say....
PET

 

[Netzach]

I am what serious Jews would call a joke.

However, much like some other posters, I've taken what I love about my religion and made sense of it. If you ask me what I am I will say I am Jewish. I draw cultural identity and strength from it, I draw inspiration from the texts.

One of the best legacies of my religious beliefs, I think is the knowledge that *bad things happen to good people* I shy away from punishment based D/s because of this, I think that an unpleasant sensation should feel like an existential fact, a model of the world, not a punishment because "you were bad."

Not that I think I am God, but I do model my ideas about D/s based on this universal system, I believe that we model something sacred to me when we go there.

(Hoooo, new agey quota over limit for today)

 

[lark sparrow]

Agnostic and/or/to Atheist in regard to most organized religion... but not entirely unspiritual.

 

[Croctden]

Stict atheist

 

[killallhippies]

i'm an agnostic. the family is methodist. i hate methodists.

 

[James G 5]

I am a Discordian
Fnord!
And a pope.

But I don't follow it.

 

[FungiUg]

Agnostic, and firmly so. Had a very religious (christian cult) upbringing, most of which I object to strenuously now.

 

[Master_Vassago]

Strong agnostic. I was raised in several different sects but as I grew older and had a choice I decided on none of the above. I only attend the usual Christmas and rare Easter sundays or functions simply because of My SO. I don't disbelieve entirely just choose to think that one strict line of this is how it is or must be is bs.

So to answer the question once more. Agnostic.

 

[D's mariposa]

I was raised as Scottish Catholic. I still go to church for many of the same reasons as Ammre. Another reason I go is the music. I just love the music tradtion in the church.

How ever, I did the ritual college seardh for my spirituality. I wandered in and out of various religions. The thing that seemed to call to me the most was shamanistic paganism. I also came to realise how much the Catholic Church integrated the local (pagan) religions into it's traditions.

So now I'm either a half pagan catholic or a half catholic pagan; depending on how I feel at any given time.

 

[Quint]

Netzach, I've recently been feeling a conflict between my love of humiliation and discipline (being told I'm "bad," especially while being punished) and my growing understanding that my worth is not determined by what I do but rather by what I am. So far I'm reconciling the two by understanding that I take punishment as correction for my actions, a temporary and beneficial shame, rather than a deeper feeling of worthlessness as a person.

ammre, so far this thread is confirming something I've suspected for a long time: not too many orthodox religion followers in our midst. I'm eager to see if this trend continues.

 

[ShyGuy68]

I don't follow a faith at all. Religion are just not for me.

 

[Richard49]

In one of the old threads there was a link to Christian BDSM

 

[Etoile]

I am totally and completely non-religious. My heritage is Jewish (i.e., not from any particular country), and I was raised Unitarian Universalist. I dabbled in Wicca in my early teens, but today I don't go to church. I'm atheist.

 

[bunny bondage]

if it made sense, it wouldn't have to be religion.

i decided long ago that i need proof before i start believing anything. as it is, i have no evidence of anything, so i belong to the religion of "how should i know?" i've seen no visions, no apparations, recieved no divine messages. the way i see it, the odds of figuring out what's REALLY going on in the universe are so astronomically slim that it's best to just relax and not worry about it.

 

[Croctden]

The problems of no god

It’s scary being and atheist. You're all alone, when you die that’s it, time is fleeting and pointless.

I really wish I was religious. People who have a strong faith may seem a little silly/close minded, but they are much more at peace with the world. Sure I’m right, but what fucking good does that do me? I can’t even say “told you so.” Ignorance is bliss. But for all that I don’t believe, because I can’t. I can go through the motions, but without faith it does not do any good. If I have kids I may raise them very religiously, maybe Hindu.

 

[Pixie Mischief]

I am pagan but of no "religion"
I am eclectic.. in other words..
I do my own thing.

 

[James G 5]

I am pagan but of no "religion"
I am eclectic.. in other words..
I do my own thing.

"Nine Words the Eclectic Rede Attest:
Steal what works
Fix what's Broke
Fake the rest"

credit this one to my dear becca

 

[Pixie Mischief]

*chuckles* well its pretty true lol

"Nine Words the Eclectic Rede Attest:
Steal what works
Fix what's Broke
Fake the rest"

credit this one to my dear becca

 

[sunfox]

Lutheran, born and raised.

I wouldn't say I'm -strongly- religious, but I have a firm
comfort in my beliefs, and I'm happy with them. I do the
best I can to follow the stricture 'do unto others as you
would have them do unto you', and I think it's easier to
be comfortable in my religious background because I
was raised so free to make my own decisions and life
choices.

I never felt restricted or the like. However, it must be
said that if I was Wisconsin synod lutheran or missouri
synod, I probably would no longer go to church at all
now that I decide for myself if I want to go. I was raised
ELCA, and it's a lot less limiting.

Rather than making me close-minded, as organized
religion often can, I think my upbringing made me far
more accepting of other beliefs than I would have otherwise
been.

 

[Chicklet]

okay I'm an athiest

I don't believe in any higher power. I think it was lucky coincidence that the earth became able to sustain life, and that if there *was* a "higher power" it would more likely just be another species like ourselves. I don't believe in any god, I don't believe that the earth is alive and keeping things in balance (past the point that it actually IS...I don't give it any supernatural power)

I like the phrase "Thank god I'm an athiest" cause it amuses me. = )

I have to agree that it's lonely though. It's sort of scary not believing in anything past life...I studied religion in High School and it scared the crap out of me. I feel that I don't have a connection to religious people that they think I ought to have...People tell me to trust in God and I have no faith in any sort of God so that freaks me out. What is the meaning of life? There is no meaning, it's just freaky and pointless.

My mother was Catholic but excommunicated, my father was raised Lutheran. That's about it =)

 

[Pixie Mischief]

I wont judge anyones believe...
cause I Respect peoples opinion......

but how can one not beleive in balance when its proven in science labs??!!!!


so you dont believe in science either?

 

[James G 5]

I wont judge anyones believe...
cause I Respect peoples opinion......

but how can one not beleive in balance when its proven in science labs??!!!!


so you dont believe in science either?

Ok, I admit it, I am lost & didn't follow this at all.......