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Originally Posted by ShaniFaye
I dont believe in "religion" I've said it many times before in many places. "Religion" is MANS way of controlling. MAN has taken things written in the past and put them together in different forms and called it the BIBLE. The bible has been reinterpreted so many ways that its really hard to keep up with it. Heck I think even catholics have books in theirs that protestants dont..then there are the "lost books of the bible"
I chose to believe in the theory of god, I choose to believe in talking to god...some people call that prayer and thats usually the word I use too, but to me its still conversation with someone who may not speak in a way I can hear, but a lot of times he responds in ways I can see.
I do not believe in going to a building once a week and sitting with a bunch of hypocrits...Im not at all saying that EVERYONE who goes to church is that way...but a good majority of people I have met in my life are. I can talk to god, I can believe in god, I can even minister to those who ask for it (I never talk about it unless asked) all from WHEREVER I am, and whenever I choose.
thats my spirituality.
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But isn't that just as hypocritical? You claim to deny their controlling beliefs, and yet you latch on to the God that they created. I've believed in religion before and gotten the uplifting effect, but if I really think about it exists only in my head.
Think about how ridiculous the idea is. God gives everyone the ability to freely act and live their own lives, and then turns around and personally controls everything to fulfils the petty wishes of everybody in the world? Trust me, he doesn't respond. You only see things as being responses because you're looking for them.
Also, religion is NOT man's way of controlling. It starts as something that people really believe in. Only when it becomes an official institution do specific priests and leaders abuse it. They may control through it, but that isn't how it started. Religion and spirituality are really man's way of finding a meaning and humanizing the world.
As for my own beliefs, I am an atheist in practice, but an agnostic in belief. Because there is absolutely no way of knowing whether or not religions are true, or if so which one is true, I don't choose. It's a completely arbitrary decision, and you have no reason to favor any of the options. I am an atheist in practice because even if there is a higher spiritual existence and/or set of morals, there is no way to know which one is right. And so there is no way to live in accordance with them. So why waste time following a bunch of random rules that you have no reason to believe? Anyone who eschews religion because it's hypocritical, and then goes out and bases his beliefs on that religion's rules is just a bigger hypocrite.