Does religion play a role in your everyday life?

Answer 1

Yes, ma'am. From salatul-Fajr (early morning prayer) until salatul-Isha (evening prayer), the time in between, I'm doing something religious, insha'Allah.

Answer 2

yes, I have a great interest in religion.
I am an atheist, who was in 2 major christian denominations for the first 30+ yrs of my life - one of these was a proselytising religion.
I have seen at first hand the emotional tricks used to convert people. One religion taught me to be distrustful of other christian religions - luckily I saw my way through that and realised that the same arguments could be turned back and used against that denomination, too.
I have learned a little about mentalism (BIG derren brown and Ian Rowland fan), cold reading and psychlogy, especially the sort used by 'psychics' and - to a certain extent - in mainstream religion too.
So, Religion plays a role in my life, yes........ but, Just because I have an interest, it doesn't mean I am going to be suckered in again

(and as an atheist, I bet I have read the bible end-to-end, more times than most of the 'christians' on this site)

Answer 3

Yes, religion plays an important role in all the choices I make in a day. I am a Christian. I am nowhere near perfect, but I try to think about what God would want me to do in every situation. I live my life as a prayer in an attitude of worship. I praise God in my daily life and keep a constant line of communication open with Him. I seek after his peace and dwell in his prescense. I enjoy being with Him and following His path. I cannot think of a life without my following the path of Christ. I do not look down on those that choose not to follow that same path. I look down on myself when I do not do what I know is right and look instead towards what I know is displeasing to God. I seek his forgiveness and seek after his kingdom above all else. Each day I am awakened with a renewed sense of passion to follow Him. I pray that passion never leaves me no matter how rough life can get sometimes.

Answer 4

If by religion it is thought as :

"A set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs. An ethical existence."

Then yes, a moral code devoted to human progression on a personal level is followed everyday.

If you mean do I follow a God that is impossible to prove, visit a place of worship for no apparent reason or contrive to alter others already perfectly ethical lives to promote the existence of something I cannot prove for the sake of an aged book, no.

Answer 5

Yes, I am a Wiccan, and I live and breath it 24/7...
I am not part time like most other religions...
How do you think the planet is going to survive while the idiots in charge are the religious who only go to their respective Church, perhaps once a week, if they go..(hypocrites)
The rest of the time they are working out ways to exploit you or kill you...
Mainstream religion to me is hypocrisy...
My Church is out in nature, and I am an earth child who will do his best to preserve what is left of our dying mother...
Love and Light... BB... )O(

Answer 6

Absolutely. Every day I am confronted by delusional people whose delusional belief systems are rammed down my throat. Sports stars thanking some pretend deity for their performance, politicians asking us to "pray for rain" (like that works), idiots preaching at me in public, morons with inane religious platitudes on bumper stickers, pathetic door to door salespeople peddling their unique brand of neurotic beliefs &hoping to gain another convert to help fill their church's already immorally over-stuffed coffers and other occurences.

I wish religion played no part in my life.

Answer 7

Not at all. There are so many different religions on this earth, each claiming to be the right one. They can't all be right, and won't it be fun if, one day, they find out they were all wrong.

The amount of hatred in the world; the slaughter of innocent people; the wars waged; so much bloodshed and slaughter - all in the name of their God.

Catholic hates Protestant, Hindu hates Seik, Jew hates Muslim (well, basically every religion hates Muslims), and so on, and so on.

No thank you.

Answer 8

definitely ...religion effects the way someone dresses, socialises and their activities so if someone has a religion it seem impossible for it not to have a role in their life..it certainly has a role in my life.

Answer 9

Not in what you'd call a "traditional" sense.

In a much more subtle, internalized way, it does. I try to be open to the needs of others, and lend a helping hand whenever the opportunity arises. I believe in "live and let live," and don't feel any great motivation to "convert" anyone in any way.

Answer 10

Every morning when I wake I turn on the TV to see the damage that the religious have done overnight.
Then, whilst my kids are eating their breakfast, I log in here to read the mind-boggling wisdom that the religious write.
I know I shouldn't inflict this on myself but, in some ways, it helps me to realise how lucky I am to be an Atheist.