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If asked my religion, I say none, but.....?

I consider Christianity my culture and not my religion. Do I believe in God, not as it is dictated by conventional teachings. I like to believe in the earth and the universe as a whole and we are just a very small part of it. In fact an incy wincy bit of it. Someone here on yahoo answers said, if God is the creature of all things why would he only obsess about humans behavior, I am inclined to agree.

I think that the sooner people realize that we have to work with the earth and that we need it far more than it needs us then maybe things will start to be put right. I can't see that happening though, people are a selfish and short sighted creature, they see just what they need to fulfill themselves and their desires.

I live in a Christian society our laws are based in Christianity and I am in a very general way in agreement with them. You need order, people like to know where they stand, what the expectations are and that they can be protected by the society they live in. (Obviously it is not that black and white, but very generally speaking). People like rules.

So when asked - no I do not have a religion, but I do have a culture.

Do other people of no fixed/recognised religion have similar thoughts?

Update:

Why has just about everybody homed in on the religious thing!!

This is not really what I was asking about. You have , on the whole, missed the point. I am talking about the principles you live by, not whether or not you believe in god.

Also, of course Christianity is a culture. The laws in The United Kingdom are based on the Ten Commandments, we live by them even if we are not religious.

Most decent minded people would agree with the principles set out by the laws of this land.

the question or thought was - do you have strong principles that are based in a religious belief even, even though you do not consider you'reself a religious person.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Sounds like you're agnostic. I'm an atheist, because I refuse to deny the obvious fact that there's no "God" watching over us. The city of New Orleans was recently destroyed by hurricane Katrina. At least a thousand people died, tens of thousands lost all their earthly possessions, and over a million have been displaced. It is safe to say that almost every person living in New Orleans at the moment Katrina struck believed in an omnipotent, omniscient, and compassionate God. But what was God doing while a hurricane laid waste to their city? Surely He heard the prayers of those elderly men and women who fled the rising waters for the safety of their attics, only to be slowly drowned there. These were people of faith. These were good men and women who had prayed throughout their lives. Only the atheist has the courage to admit the obvious: these poor people spent their lives in the company of an imaginary friend.

    If God exists, either He can do nothing to stop the most egregious calamities, or He does not care to. God, therefore, is either impotent or evil. Pious readers will now execute the following pirouette: God cannot be judged by merely human standards of morality. But, of course, human standards of morality are precisely what the faithful use to establish God’s goodness in the first place. And any God who could concern himself with something as trivial as gay marriage, or the name by which he is addressed in prayer, is not as inscrutable as all that. If He exists, the God of Abraham is not merely unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.

    Source(s): rant rant rant.
  • 1 decade ago

    I totally know how you feel. When people ask me what religion I am, I say I'm an atheist because I don't believe in God. I am having a Bar Mitzvah in a week so they say "How can you be an atheist if you are having a Bar Mitzvah?" I tell them I am technically Jewish as everyone in my family is a Jew, and my grandparents fled from the Holocaust so I like to 'honor' them by keeping Jewish 'culture-wise'.

    They still don't understand.

    Haha.

  • Tom E
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Most religions are based upon fear. The leaders keep that fear as real as possible because it keeps the believers in place and allows the believers to do things that are not necessarily right. I believe that the real religion is based upon love. God is love and he who abides in love abides in God and God in him. That is what Jesus taught but that is not what the leaders teach now.

    You are an agnostic. You believe in God but not organized religions.

  • 1 decade ago

    I have never heard anyone say God is the creature of all things, He is the Creator of all things. Jesus never taught about Christianity, man picked that up and ran with it. He is not about religion, man is. I follow Jesus with my soul and spirit, not just laws that are written.

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  • neil s
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Christianity is no a culture. It is an easily falsified belief system. The only way you live in a society with laws based on Christianity is if you live in Vatican City.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    So basically you have created a god to suit your beliefs. A god you are more comfortable with, one that will believe what you believe.....>

    That is called idolatry....>

    I did the same thing for 39 years.....>

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Religion is apart of culture. So, you are correct in saying that you feel it's your culture.

  • 1 decade ago

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    The principle of the unity of religion is at the center of Bahá'í teachings.

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    http://info.bahai.org/article-1-4-0-4.html

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    In reality, there is only one religion, the religion of God.

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  • 1 decade ago

    You have created your beliefs, what fits you.

    CJJJ

  • 1 decade ago

    Real question would be are 'you' Born Again Spiritually or not?? Then 'you' are just an Agnostic.

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