Bina
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Post by Bina on May 12, 2007 12:02:04 GMT -5
That´s so funny! I also love the religious jokes from Keeping mum.
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zeldafitzgerald
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on May 19, 2007 6:24:53 GMT -5
That´s so funny! I also love the religious jokes from Keeping mum. Yes! Those are so funny! I love that movie.
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Bina
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Post by Bina on May 19, 2007 7:16:41 GMT -5
Giggle with God
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jobean
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Post by jobean on Mar 7, 2008 5:14:04 GMT -5
I was brought up as a Buddhist, but I'm not extremely religious. The only time I go to the temple is on Chinese New Year or when my parents say I have to. What annoys me though is people who believe that other religions' beliefs are stupid. There's a boy at my school who is Christian who said to me "I think the afterlife is stupid. How could you even believe in that?" It really shat me up the wall.
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Mar 7, 2008 11:58:51 GMT -5
I will not lie--in my opinion, Christians are some of the most close-minded people in the world. In my experience, they're very unaccepting of others. I don't mean to offend any Christians on the boards, but that's just what I've experienced. This is partially why I'm not really a Christian anymore...I didn't agree with that.
Bookworm and I just chatted yesterday in the chat room a lot about religion. It was a very interesting conversation...
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Post by swissmiss on Mar 7, 2008 13:01:48 GMT -5
I'm a christian but I consider myself pretty open minded. In a way I kind of believe in all religions because I think just because you were brought up in a different faith doesn't mean you're going to hell or whatever. I think it really depends a lot on the person how open-minded you are, but I believe the Bible is more of a guideline rather than absolute truth.
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thenephilim
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Post by thenephilim on Mar 7, 2008 13:09:01 GMT -5
I'm a christian but I consider myself pretty open minded. In a way I kind of believe in all religions because I think just because you were brought up in a different faith doesn't mean you're going to hell or whatever. I think it really depends a lot on the person how open-minded you are, but I believe the Bible is more of a guideline rather than absolute truth. My thoughts exactly! I'm Catholic and have been since..birth. But I respect all other religions and find them fascinating. I took a Comparative Religions class last year and loved it- it was so interesting and thought-provoking. I sometimes wonder about religions, like what if all of them are somehow each a component of a larger "truth". Haha, I don't know. It's just interesting to think about. And the comment about the bible- I agree with that. People take it too literally and have to remember that it was written by man, not God. I absolutely think of it as a guideline and almost a sort of of metaphor for bigger things.
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Post by Hanna on Mar 7, 2008 13:10:41 GMT -5
I'm a conservative Christian and we tend to get labelled close-minded because we have very set opinions about stuff. It's important to me to stand for what I believe in, and my right to say what I believe in without people attacking me (as tend to happen), but because of that it is also important to me that other people get to say what they believe without being attacked. I don't wanna be judgemental, because who am I to judge, you know? (don't know if any of this made any sense;)) But, Kristie, I believe what you said about closeminded Christians are absolutely true, I've met a lot of those myself. I wish it wasn't so because Jesus wasn't very close minded. He was strict and very firm in what he preached, but he reached out to everyone, he didn't judge them (although he could have)
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Post by swissmiss on Mar 7, 2008 13:21:15 GMT -5
I'm a christian but I consider myself pretty open minded. In a way I kind of believe in all religions because I think just because you were brought up in a different faith doesn't mean you're going to hell or whatever. I think it really depends a lot on the person how open-minded you are, but I believe the Bible is more of a guideline rather than absolute truth. My thoughts exactly! I'm Catholic and have been since..birth. But I respect all other religions and find them fascinating. I took a Comparative Religions class last year and loved it- it was so interesting and thought-provoking. I sometimes wonder about religions, like what if all of them are somehow each a component of a larger "truth". Haha, I don't know. It's just interesting to think about. And the comment about the bible- I agree with that. People take it too literally and have to remember that it was written by man, not God. I absolutely think of it as a guideline and almost a sort of of metaphor for bigger things. Yeah I definitely agree with your point about the bible! About it being a metaphor, I mean. And it always confuses me, because I could never say that one religion is right and all others are wrong. Although I believe in christianity, I never can understand how all the millions of other people who believe in different things could be wrong. I consider myself a liberal christian though
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Post by mockingbrid on Mar 7, 2008 14:53:25 GMT -5
I'm a conservative Christian and we tend to get labelled close-minded because we have very set opinions about stuff. It's important to me to stand for what I believe in, and my right to say what I believe in without people attacking me (as tend to happen), but because of that it is also important to me that other people get to say what they believe without being attacked. I don't wanna be judgemental, because who am I to judge, you know? (don't know if any of this made any sense;)) But, Kristie, I believe what you said about closeminded Christians are absolutely true, I've met a lot of those myself. I wish it wasn't so because Jesus wasn't very close minded. He was strict and very firm in what he preached, but he reached out to everyone, he didn't judge them (although he could have) That's exactly what I am and how I feel! I won't treat anyone differently because they have done things the church frowns upon. People don't understand that even though I am a Christian I am not perfect. I still make mistakes and I am not superior to anyone because of that. I consider the Bible as truth. If it were just guidelines to me, it would be like rules that were made for nobody to follow. Some things like when Jesus says to cut off your hand if it caused you to sin ARE metaphors, it just shows how seriously you should take sin. Otherwise, most of us wouldn't have any hands!
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Ansku
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Post by Ansku on Mar 7, 2008 15:07:28 GMT -5
I'm Christian, Lutheran acually. I've belong church since I was born. I had Confirmation last summer. I like religion as a subject in school but it's not feel like me thing.
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Wess
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Post by Wess on Mar 7, 2008 19:09:58 GMT -5
I think my opinion on religion is not something religious people really want to hear. I have thought and read a lot about it. I know a lot about Christianity, Judaism and the Islam. I know the origins and I know the stories. There is no way I can write all my thoughts on religion in one post, but I'll try to make my point anyway.
Let's go back to where it all started. We (human beings) used to be even more ignorant than we are now. We didn't know why it rained, we didn't know what caused thunder and we also didn't know why the sun rised every morning. We were looking for answers but we just weren't that clever back then. Instead of giving up, we had a better plan, we make up this thing (or back in "the days", these things) called "God". If we don't understand it, we say God is the explanation. Throughout the years, the form of God(s) changed, the way of worshiping him changed, his face changed, but the fundamental idea stayed the same. Now, that idea was started a long long long time ago. It worked for them, but now, we know why it rains, we know what causes thunder and we know why the sun rises every morning. We don't need this creature we made anymore. There is no reason in "believing" in him anymore. We now know so much more about the world...let's stop lying to ourselves and end wasting our time in worshiping something that isn't there.
Now wait, stop, there is one thing I want to say. I don't think religion is evil. Not in the past and not now. It creates an identity for some people. It brings people together, it gives people a reason to live, it gives people a goal in life. It's just that I think it's better to have all those things...in something that does exist.
Any religious people want to comment on this?
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Post by Dominique on Mar 7, 2008 23:04:57 GMT -5
With the closed minded thing though, it's not just that there are a few closed minded Christians, but the way I see it is at the core of some of the Christian beliefs is a closed-minded sentiment that involves judging other people's lifestyles, for example homosexuals, or even my lifestyle, which to be honest involves pre-marital sex with a long term partner. So much of it seems to be about control that sometimes I wonder if any of these more controversial principles are really what Jesus or a Christian god intended or if they're just put there to control people and ensure social order in the more unstable historic times. Please understand though that I don't mean any of that to insult Christians and I'm not against any particular religion, these are just my musings as a disillusioned ex-Catholic. In general I respect the beliefs of religions, I just can't respect the ones that are similar to the evil homosexuality thing. I think a lot of what you said sounds pretty accurate Wess
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jobean
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Post by jobean on Mar 8, 2008 6:10:56 GMT -5
I've always wondered how religious schools teach subjects like Biology if it's mostly based on the Evolution Theory... They don't believe in it, right?
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Michelle
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Post by Michelle on Mar 8, 2008 9:07:58 GMT -5
So much of it seems to be about control that sometimes I wonder if any of these more controversial principles are really what Jesus or a Christian god intended or if they're just put there to control people and ensure social order in the more unstable historic times. Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses." I do agree with what you guys are saying. I'm Catholic. I go to mass every week. But I have no idea what I acually believe. It's hard for me to say I don't believe in anything - I def. think there has to be something out there or else how do we get this perfect balance for human life? The odds are incredible. But then again - the universe is huge, so maybe the odds work. I don't know. I still want to believe in something. I have a harder time believing in a set theory. It just seems too hard to believe that men didn't just make it all up. In The Quiet American, one of the characters accuses another of just being tough when he says that he doesn't believe in anything. It does seem like not believing is the "cool" thing to do when you are young. I thought it was interesting.
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