If you have a religion, is it based on seeing, believing, or believing you have seen something?
I am an atheist because I believe all supposedly divine occurances can be proven by science to be natural as opposed to divinely inspired.
ocean
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I have good values and good principles, but I don't have a religion on which I get to believe in something imaginary like (god, prophets, and ...whatever). no I don't believe in that.
pip
Deist. I don't believe any religion has it right but I do believe in a God.. as an example of a the way I think about this I would ask someone if they believe Mother Teresa and Ghandi both went to heaven.. if so then how can one religion be correct... and if not.. would you really want to go to a heaven where one of those two couldn't get in? As far as why I believe there is a God.. what was there when there was nothing? since time is infinite in both directions what was there before the big bang? and after the big bang.. during the formation of our solar system.. if one subatomic particle would have smashed/not smashed into something exactly like it did.. it could have changed everything.. it might have altered the collision that formed our moon.. or wiped out the dinosaurs.. or the creation of our sun for that matter.. in a universe of infinite possibilities you need probability to guide the infinite to actualization.. God is that guiding hand.
Brian O
This dialogue could go on for a while...I'll try to keep it short. You're going one of three places depending on how you believe...1. A level of Heaven 2. Heaven or Hell 3. Neither. I go with Christianity. I believe closely with #2 because God created everything. Basically, you believe that principle or you don't. If you do, that means that the Bible is true and it mentions both places. Since I believe God created everything and the Bible is true, I choose to persue God's prinicples 100%. Am I perfect? No.
I would say on your secondary question, seeing and believing. I believe it because I choose to believe 100% (all or nothing at all). Seeing the way things work around me (the body, seasons, the wind) help point to a creation having a creator. We didn't evolve. We were made.
Anonymous
Nearly everyone's religion has nothing at all to do with the religion but rather is based on where that person was born. The same people who are Christians in the US would have been Muslims if they had been born in the middle east or Buddists if the had been born in southeast asia, or Hindu if the had been born in India and so on. One's religion is primarily an accident of birth.
Anonymous
i agree with the guy above me.im a christian, and im proud of it! to put it simply and not in the 'religious' way or to preach to you, its because i no that there has to be something more, something more than THIS. and to me, evolution may exist, but not w/o God. i mean, really, you cant have science with out God. it just doesnt happen. anyways, thats just mi opinion. im not like one of those highly religious ppl who thinks christianity is the only religion and everyone else is going to hell and that scientists are demons. mainly, i believe that as long as you believe in something, you'll be fine. like, i think im going to heaven, but i also think that any buddists or hindus or jews or islams wjill also reincarnate, or go to nirvana, or whatever it is they believe in. not just one religion is right. and to the the scientist thing, i used to want to be a scientist when i got older, i just think that to have it, there must be a greater force.
and here's a question for all the atheists out there: what do you think happens after you die? what, do u think u just explode or rot in the ground. cuz if u belive in reincarnation, well, then ur at least spiritual. i mean, what happens to your soul? mi point is that we arent going to just die on earth and not go anywhere, there has to be something bigger than this. ill stop mi rants, cuz i could go on forever!