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What are your views on the higher being?

A God.
A force.

Explain them to me.
And tell me your religion too.
I wold like to study this a bit harder.
The beliefs of the different religions and thier doctrines.

I would like to hear from an athiest and an agnostic if you will.
Christians Jews and Catholics, feel free to express the love you have for God.

I am interested.

-SARUKO-

2007-05-31 09:13:37 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

8 answers

First of all, I'm agnostic.

I believe there is a higher being, a "god" if you will. That's as far as I can safely go. Everything from then on is pure speculation. Religions claim they know but nobody really does. Nobody can. I don't spend my time trying to interpret or humanize something that exists beyond my understanding because I believe it doesn't matter anyway. I don't know if god judges us, but I know that if it does, its criteria have nothing to do with how we approach it religiously. It's all about who we are and what morals do we stand by.

2007-05-31 09:34:09 · answer #1 · answered by Mark 3 · 0 0

to me, religion is, all people that belive cover their ears for this, basically a way to control the willing. see, im an evolutionist. and yes i think we evolved from apes, as silly as it may sound to some.

throughout history, there have been many faiths. today the main one in NA is christianity. but the thing is, the bible is so contradicting and can be taken in so many ways that it actually complicates things, more than it solves.
for example, adam and eve were the first two people right?
well, then how did the rest of the world become populated without insest, 'cause its a "sin" and becuase of birth defects

and christianity wasn't a thing untill the begining or the roman empire. before that, there was buhdism, allah, and a whole crapload more.
so if the bible, supposidly starts at the beginning of time, then what about all the other stuff that happened on earth. dinasours, ice ages, other religions

and back before the renassaince, maybe only 10% of the population could read. i think that the church way back when, wanting to control the masses, said you must do this, this and that. when someone asks, why. then all they have to say is that "because the bible says so!" and they wouldn't be the wiser.

lol. i know im rambling but, in my personal opinion, the bible is the world's best selling and most original science fiction book, ever written.
p.s. no offense to anyone.

2007-05-31 16:50:09 · answer #2 · answered by dark_guitar3000 1 · 0 0

I grew up a (mostly nonpracticing) Catholic and went to Catholic school. Around the time I was in seventh grade (I think), my spirituality started becoming important to me. At first I would read the Bible and take to heart what I heard at the weekly Wednesday morning mass we were forced to go to. Then I picked up a book called "The Disappearance of the Universe," which was quite interesting and intrigued me quite a bit. Some of it was a little out there, I will admit, but some things that were written just -felt- right and I knew they were true (for me anyways). But since then I have come to realize through some amount of research, that organized religion is not for me and that I'm more spiritual than anything. I believe in "enlightenment" if you will, or the expanding of your conscienceness, or whatever you want to call it and find that I find truth in many different belief systems and philosophies... In all honesty, I've rather skirted around your real question, and the reason is that I don't entirely understand my beliefs. I mean, I know (mostly at least) what I believe, but to try to relate it, especially over keyboard, would be extremely tedious and difficult. I don't know how much help I was... sorry about that... but good luck on learning more.

2007-05-31 16:33:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I am a polytheist.

Because my particular religion tries to be completely consistent with the real world, I believe that I can learn more about the Divine by studying the real world. Science tells me how things happen, and philosophy fills in many of the gaps that science cannot possibly bridge on its own. Outside of both of these fields lies theology, which fills in details that neither can supply.

I believe in the gods that I do for the simple reason that I communicate with them on various levels. We have a definite ongoing interaction. It's hard NOT to believe in that. And while some of the things that I percieve as gods may be understood by other people as different non-entities, that's okay with me.

Take, for example, the sun. Even as an inanimate object. It provides the energy for almost all life on Earth, creates the weather, and is nice to lie under on summer days, not to mention being unspeakably powerful. I find most people can't even IMAGINE how truly powerful the sun is... and they see it every day! And that's just one sun.

Some will, admittedly, find the concept of the sun as a god to be ridiculous. It doesn't seem to answer prayers very much, nor does it seem to have much native intelligence.

But maybe a god doesn't need those things. Or maybe the sun DOES have them (how do you prove something ISN'T intelligent?). Or maybe the sun is just a stand-in for something else behind it.

That's just a window... what I believe is a lot more involved than that (I hope I haven't already bored you!). But hopefully it gives you a bit of an idea of my view of the Divine. It's not much more ridiculous than many other belief systems out there.

Peace.

2007-05-31 18:54:47 · answer #4 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 1 0

I'm still not too sure of my religion.
I guess I'm leaning more towards atheist/agnostic.

I don't think there is an existence of Heaven or Hell.
I think those were created to give humans a reassurance, or a safe feeling, in that there is life after death.. since many people fear the end.
I believe you only have one life and that's it, so live it to the fullest.
This may or may not relate, depends how you look at it.
But I do believe in karma, very much.
What goes around, surely does come back around... and it will bite you in the a.ss.
And I believe some of the views of the Wiccan religion.
How like if you do something harmful to others, it will come back on you 3 times worse.

Like I said, I'm still not too sure of my religion.
The question is there a higher force.... well it perplexes me.
I just literally sat here for 15 minuets thinking about it.
I know I do believe that we control our own lives.
I don't believe in predestination, or anything of that sort.
I don't know, now I'm beginning to confuse myself, haha.
Thinking too hard about this.
Anyways, hope you learn what you want.
This is a very thought provoking question.

2007-05-31 21:55:18 · answer #5 · answered by cc 4 · 0 0

Uhh...agnostic, I think I am. I actually do believe there is a higher being with higher power out there, but I'm not sure if it's God. I don't want to criticize any religions right now, so whatever I say isn't aimed to do that. I just don't believe that God actually can be that forgivable. At some point in our lives, we have to be all sinful. I just think that someone out there has a lot of power that probably matches to the power of God as people would say.

2007-05-31 18:19:45 · answer #6 · answered by Banana Hero [sic] 7 · 0 0

I believe in god, his son, and the holy spirit. They are all separate entities. I believe man's original disobedience was balanced out by the sacrifice of jesus, which he did willingly. It took one perfect man to balance what another perfect man did. I believe that god only wants good for everyone but because of the devil (satan) being out and about in the world and man still disobeying god, there is bad. I think that as long as you have faith that god will always be there and although bad things may happen, he will take care of things in the end and make them right.

As far a "religion" goes, I'm not a big believer in it. Religion has done many horrible things in the name of god which I'm sure he hasn't and does not approve of. Religion is a man made concept, not a god concept. I consider myself a christian but not a "religious" christian.

2007-05-31 16:36:23 · answer #7 · answered by im here 5 · 0 0

There's no God or 'force,' AKA God. My religion is atheism, which says that when something is so unlikely it's the most likely thing to be deemed impossible by anything logical, compared to all other situations one can invent, one should rather not devote his or her life to it.

2007-05-31 16:27:08 · answer #8 · answered by shmux 6 · 0 0

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