What religions are present in this forum?

[apachama]

I'm wondering, what sort of belief systems are present on this forum? Labels are hard, but I'm interested to know what you guys are like and what you base your thought on.

I try to make the occassional offering to Gods and spirits and practice rituals and mantras often enough to remember them. I believe worship and ritual is important. But I also can't bring myself to believe in the supernatural. I'm pretty much an atheist. But I often call myself a Pagan.

I don't like the fact that aspects of my thinking are influenced by Christianity, which I grew up with. And my own variation of Satanism, which I cobbled together mostly from nightmares during one of my less mentally stable moments. But both things are a part of me, and I try to respect them.

[dragonoverlord]

Im agnostic/atheist too i guess but i do i have a beleif in the supernatural having expereinced stuff myself and i think the idea of reincarnation might be plausible. Im not completely resigned to the idea of eternal nothingness after i die.

aint got hope aint got nothing.

[JET73L]

Self-determined form of pantheism, which I call omnitheism (decided on it before I started really getting into comparative religion, and had not yet heard of pan theism).
Rules for humans: similar to christianity, but more tolerance, and fewer atrbitrary and/or outdated rules. ALso includes a moral clause to follow the laws of you current country of residence, either temporary or permanent. RULE #1: Yopu may be right. The opposing side of your debate may be right. You can;t know who's right until you;re dead, so there's no point in starting a religious crusade or genocide or anything, because that's mostly an excuse to steal property for a "moral" cause, so don;t start with anything!
Which gods exist: all of them. hence the "omni-" in omnitheism. Also, an asentient spirit energy from which human knowledge forms the gods, as well as most physical and all philosophical or religious beings/objects/systems.
Rules of gods: you can interfere, but only enough to get your religion out there where people can hear about it. After that, it's limited to the after life, and occasionally a miracle or two depending on the depth of belief (or miracles that occur after the founding of a particular religion could be a new god trying to set up their own following, for example christianity as compared to judaism, I haven;t yet determined that.)
Afterlife: based on a system of votes by the all gods past and present as made up of the ideas of their followers, with your own personal god having the most singular influence. If you believe you will go to some sort of heaven, you might. If you believe you will go to some sortt of hell, you probably will.

That's it in a nutshell. It started with my ponderings on the crudades, and how it had been precluded and repeated throughout history, and ways such wars would lose one more excuse to be had, and thus be that much less likely to occur.

[Schmaven]

My beliefs are all over the place. I think every religion has good points that are made. But most are too strict for me to identify myself with any of them. I like the idea that God is part of everything and that all consciousness is just part of a greater consciousness subjectively witnessing itself. I've heard that's similar to Hinduism, but I know diddly about Hinduism.

[Mes Tarrant]

Atheist/agnostic. I'm having a hard time telling the difference between the two. I guess "atheist" sounds more decisive. I'm an atheist in that case.

aint got hope aint got nothing.

I disagree with this, especially if "hope" is limited to superpower being things... but I guess I'll leave it for another topic?

[bcomp]

Atheists strongly believe there's no God, agnostics aren't sure or don't care if there's one. I think...

I'm sort of a Christian Deist in that I believe in Jesus and whatnot, but I think it's up to you to be righteous (not to be totally dependent on God.) However, I think the afterlife will be much more like the Hindu concept of Nirvana/Samadhi, where you are free from physical limits and become one with all.

[Grod]

Atheists strongly believe there's no God,

I'm pretty sure it's a lack of a belief in a god. Literally 'without'-'god'

Anyway, judaism rep'

[Universal Mind]

I am an atheist who tries really hard to be a cross between a Taoist and a non-deity oriented Hindu.

EDIT: Woes, this is my 6660th post.

[bcomp]

I'm pretty sure it's a lack of a belief in a god. Literally 'without'-'god'

Anyway, judaism rep'

Hmmm... isn't it sort of the same thing though?

[Universal Mind]

Hmmm... isn't it sort of the same thing though?

I think the main principle of atheism is a belief that the idea of God's/gods' existence is so far fetched that it is not a significant consideration. To an agnostic, the existence of God/gods is a significant consideration. A person does not have to literally rule out the existence of a god 100% to be an atheist, contrary to what a lot of agnostics want to claim.

[Taosaur]

I think the main principle of atheism is a belief that the idea of God's/gods' existence is so far fetched that it is not a significant consideration. To an agnostic, the existence of God/gods is a significant consideration.

You have your apathetic agnostics, too. In general, I'd say atheists are more concerned with the question than agnostics.

[apachama]

I am an atheist who tries really hard to be a cross between a Taoist and a non-deity oriented Hindu.

EDIT: Woes, this is my 6660th post.

Interesting. How does non-deity orientated Hinduism work?

[Universal Mind]

Interesting. How does non-deity orientated Hinduism work?

I made it up, at least the term. It would involve the belief that all of existence is one and that the single thing that is all things is consciousness, but the one consciousness that is all is not a deity, and there are no sub-deities either. The one consciousness that comes in an infinite number of forms is not an intelligent mind, just pure consciousness. Like I said, it is what I want to believe, not anything I can really back up. I just love the idea of it and see some strange kind of fun logic in it.

[Amethyst Star]

I'm a born-again Christian.

[bluefinger]

I'm pretty much a staunch atheist... well, better described as sceptic, because that tends to cover a larger viewpoint, as atheism is simply a position one takes in a single context.

Overall, this is merely the result of my upbringing. No indoctrination, parents simply bringing me up in a secular environment (with me being exposed to many religions outside the home)... eventually, I simply saw no reason to believe in superstitions, so here I am.

[Dreamcaster]

Primarily Roman Catholic, influenced by scientific views and slightly influenced by the New Thought Movement or New Thought. I also believe in a little bit a Kabbalah, Judaism, Islam, Hindu, Taoism, and Buddism.

[A dreamer168]

Me too

[Dreamcaster]

And my own variation of Satanism, which I cobbled together mostly from nightmares during one of my less mentally stable moments.

So let's hear it. What is this variation about? I'm just curious.

Me too

Do you mean your Roman Catholic?

[Serkat]

Thor - one motherfucking hammer to smash them all.

[bluefinger]

Thor - one motherfucking hammer to smash them all.

Dur, Odin is by far harder. He hung himself upon Yggdrasil and was stabbed with a spear constantly for 9 days and 9 nights... just to gain wisdom! Lived through the ordeal as well... talk about hard!

[A dreamer168]

So let's hear it. What is this variation about? I'm just curious.




Do you mean your Roman Catholic?

Yeah I'm Roman Catholic

[A dreamer168]

Dur, Odin is by far harder. He hung himself upon Yggdrasil and was stabbed with a spear constantly for 9 days and 9 nights... just to gain wisdom! Lived through the ordeal as well... talk about hard!

He also poked his own eye out for wisdom too

[Serkat]

Dur, Odin is by far harder. He hung himself upon Yggdrasil and was stabbed with a spear constantly for 9 days and 9 nights... just to gain wisdom! Lived through the ordeal as well... talk about hard!

Holy crap.



I am now converted.

P.S.: Why doesn't the Christian god have a helmet with wings? Fucking pussy.

[saxonharp]

I follow a traditional Native American Path. Lakota and Toltec specifically.

[Dreamcaster]

Holy crap.



I am now converted.

P.S.: Why doesn't the Christian god have a helmet with wings? Fucking pussy.

The Christian God doesn't need all that cr*p. Thor is just overcompensating for a small "serpent".