Well I really don't know the difference in beliefs... I should do some research.

I'm religious, sort of. I believe in God (a Christian one) but I don't go to church, and I don't think that people of other faiths are going to burn in hell or anything. I don't think going to church or following a certain religion makes you a good person, it's how you treat others that matters.

Right on!

what??? im the only jew here??? well anyways... i go to tempal on holidays and.... celibrate them too....lol

No I dont blame you. I realised that i didnt give that many details.

No disrespect to anybody who has faith in a certain belief. But the way I see it, religions are just a way of telling people there is hope in life if you believe and worship in a certain god. To me I don't think so. If you can have that much belief in something that's spiritual and told by a priest, why can't you just have that same amount of belief in yourself. If you can believe in something that you don't know if he, she or it is trully there, than why can't you take that exact same faith into yourself? Knowing that you are flesh and bone. I'm certain that if you do have that same faith in yourself, that you will prosper in life as you wanted it to be. Believe in thine self and prosper.

Never have been never will be

i dunno....... humans do such horrible stuff to each other that i would rather believe in a higher power, becuase believing in mankind is really realy bleak

I'm atheist. People say that God created Man but I think of it the other way around. Man created God. Hope I didn't offend anyone with that.

Since when are atheists so concerned about offending people?

GUYS I WAS JOKING ABOUT THAT ZOOPHILE COMMENT....
but then again...way to sound like a creeper wording that 7 years ago.

Uhm... i'm not sure you understand what zoophilism is...

I'm an agnostic. It's awful because I'm an agnostic and they're trying to force me to be Catholic, which has got to be one of the most boring and strict religions there is. ><

I still haven't sorted out whether or not I believe the whole 'God' thing. I'd like to believe that there's a heaven, or some sort of peaceful afterlife, although I don't like to think that if you sin you go to hell. It's also strange for me to think that there's an all-knowing and all-powerful being up there that, essentially, has put us down here to do his bidding. That doesn't sound right to me.

And I figure that if I decide that there IS a God, I'm not going to follow a set religion. I'll pray and stuff, but I don't like the idea that my religious ed classes has put into my head. Basically that idea is, "You can pray whenever you want and God will listen, but it only really counts if you pray in church". I hate church. It's boring, it's pointless, and they keep repeating the same thing. I'll pray on me own time, thank you very much, and I'll set my own religious rules about what's good and bad.

Who here follows this Symble?

I think that would make you agnostic then...

@Helford: What the hell is that?

Is that like bestiality? I've never heard the term "zoophilism" before.

im athiest, i dont really believe all of that god stuff.
i really dislike some extremist christians, they are sometimes really really annoying and need to be reminded that PRIDE is a sin too.
just look at this website:
http://www.godhatesfags.com
they actually PRAISE hurricane katrina.
(im not saying all christians are like that)

^ That site is so scary. They used to have this little gif of Matthew Shepard (a homosexual who was beaten to death in 1998) burning in hell, and it would scream when you scrolled your mouse over it.

Someone made a whole thread about this site a few months ago, and I still can't quite decide if it's a joke or not. Some of it's pretty normal, but there are some scary parts, like plans to go to Africa looking for Pterosaurs to prove evolution wrong, or launching a huge cross into orbit so everyone can see it. The 4Kidz part is especially funny. I really think it's a joke, but it's so elaborate.

That's what they're referring to in this case, obviously. The more uh... 'family friendly' definition just means you're an animal lover... platonically...

Yeah, but if God is so called a higher power, so is his/her other half which would be Satan. Without evil there can be no good, and It's amazing how they blame the horrible stuff that humans do on Satan. Like God doesn't have anything to do with it. Believing in a higher power will never change the way humans act. With or without that belief in a higher power, people will be people, and that will never change.





Just because we are Athiests, doesn't exactly mean that we have to be rude.

dont believe in any of that stuff

Its a satanic symble

That's just downright disgusting! I can stand people who go to church but don't bitch about God everyday, but that? WTF?!
Next they'll be saying that the tornado(s) that hit Indiana (I think it was Indiana correct me if I'm wrong) was a good thing or that the pirate attack on the cruise ship was a good thing.

Dang. Who ever made that website is really Homophobic. Im not gay and I dont have anything against gay people. Everyone has at least a gay cousin its so comon.

o_o;; I thought as much....do you follow that symbol?

I said no, but I think I should've said a little bit

I only believe in one god..

and that's the death god.. if there weren't a death god, no one would die... and everyone dies, right?

..so yeah. I don't believe in anything if there's no logical proof that it exists (<-- didn't convert to thaty after reading FMA)

people die because their body slowly decays,a fter after the body stops, there isnt enough blood to support it, therefore rendering the brain useless, killing you

I`m Catholic as well and I am very religous.

I'm a Prespitarian. Thats basicly the same as Cathlic or aChristian. In my opinon with out religion the world would have no sense of right and wrong.

I'm always amazed to see how many people are completely ignorant about their own religions.

Haha, yeah, I needed a good laugh. ^^

And what are you laughing at?
And no Im not a satanist despite it being a bad symbol I like the design of it.

what are you talking about????

the world and life are what we make of it, not what some fictional book or whatever tell us qhat it and we should be

....You must be just as ignorant then... *tries to ignore massive spelling errors* They said they were Prebyterian (first of all, they spelled their own religion incorrectly), and compared it to as a similar yet different enitity as Christianity and Catholicism. Catholicism and Presbyterian are both branches of Christianity... But Presbyterian is one of many branches of the Protestant part of Christianity. Catholicism is christian, but not protestant because... just look up the Protestant Reformation if you are really interested Anyway, it was just a really stupid statement to make. Like Bacon said, a lot of people are very ignorant as to what their faith is about.

And that, my dear friends, is what I think makes them dangerous...

Still we Presbitary believe the same concept as Cathlic or Cristiananity. I said they were similar not exactly the same.

WTF, did you not just read my bloody explanation? PRESBYTERIAN is a Protestant denomination, you dolt. As in a seperate branch from the general tree of Protestantism. You are only proving yourself to be more ignorant of your alleged beliefs, which apparently you know nothing about.

Edit: Seeing as how you completely edited your post, they are similar because like I said, it is a denomination of Protestantism. It has some similarities because they are all apart of Christianity. *you must have spelled Presbyterian about 8 different ways by now*

Okay, first of all, it's spelled 'P-R-E-S-B-Y-T-E-R-I-A-N'

Second of all, go HERE and look at the last word of the first line of the definition.

Thank you.

Uhhh...Hmmm...you just don't get it, do ya? Do at least me a favour, please...put down that bible and pick up a dictionary. It will do wonders for your conversational skills, possibly even bring you success.

Yah, you know, I would've told him to read the whole definition, but, you know... baby steps.

I don't mean to be rude or to be ingorant to my on believes. But you guys are missing my point. Cathlicism, Cristianity, and Protistent were all made on the same concept. We all believe that Jesus loved us enough to die for us and to save us from our sins. I might be ingorant to my orangin of my church. But I'll never be ingorant to my beliefs. And that what I think is the most important.

You damn well better know the differences between your beliefs and the beliefs of the Catholics next door, because wars have been started over exactly that!

You don't think I know that!!!!!!! You don't think I know about the Crusades and other wars like that? Diffrences between Religions is not the point im tring to make. I'm to say that some religions have simliar beliefs and thats all. I don't deny that there are major diffrences between them.

Trust me, there's very little in the way of real similarity between Catholic and Protestant beliefs.


Anyone watch Trading Spouses just now? I have never been so frightened of Christians in my life.

you know what i dont like? people who dont obey thier own religion. "respect other people" is something you should do right? but the go on right ahead and insult and cause pain to others, yet the still call themselves believers

I have to agree with you on that one blackrider, one person I know goes around telling people to respet one another and not hurt them, 5 seconds later shes biting my friend (drew blood as well) just because he wouldn't give her the guitar.

Besides that im not really into religions. When i was younger I went to a catholic school, they said belive and good things will happen, I believed, and nothing in my life has gone right. So I gave up on religion.

So basically, what they were saying is if you believe in Jesus good things will happen? Please correct me if I'm wrong.

If I believed my dead grandfathers would come back to life and prayed to Jesus everyday until the day I die...

they wouldn't come back to life... would they?

I was asking that as a question. But my opinion on that would be... I don't think so. Once there gone there gone, but look at the bright side, there memory will always remain in your heart. Death is a hard thing to take but it's bound to happen, and there is no coming back from that.