Religion, What do YOU think? |
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 Mar 18 2005, 10:32 AM
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 omgah_itsmaggiex=new username.  Group: Member Posts: 785 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 21,467  |
I'm a catholic asian. Heh. And even though I do beleive in God, there are many other religions such as christianity, buddism, hinuism, jewish, muslin, and a whole lots more. What I don't get is how evryones stories came to be. For some reason, I don't think that's possible for those stories on life could ALL be right. I'm not saying that I don't think that others religions are right, I'm just not getting all of this.
Adam and Eve were suppose to be the first man and woman to roam this earth, (In my religion) but that would means that there was some higher power in which they were able to concieve african americans, asians, mexicans, and whites all together. I also don't think that's possible. At times though, I think that all of this are stories passed down from generation to generation and eventually got to churches. Like I said before, I don't think any of y'alls religions are wrong. But my faith in God has definitly become much smaller after I've thought about this. |
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Mar 18 2005, 10:35 AM
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 <3 Deanna Leigh Irene <3 Group: Member Posts: 136 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 111,326 |
I'm on the same page as you....with doubting my religion. I've doubted it so much that I left it though. The thing I always wondered about Adam and Eve is that they had two sons, so how did they make more children? I mean, God was supposedly extremly against anything sexual between people who arn't married, but that means that Eve had to have made more children with her sons. Its' weird...
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Mar 18 2005, 10:38 AM
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QUOTE but that would means that there was some higher power in which they were able to concieve african americans, asians, mexicans, and whites all together. That's not true. Adam and Eve had children, and those children had children, and people started exploring and moving to different parts of the world. They started adapting to the geography and climate of those areas of the world. Which in turn created different races. If you guys have any more question, read the bible. |
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Mar 18 2005, 12:23 PM
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 hello : ) Group: Official Member Posts: 4,227 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 13,139 |
That's why you read the bible (for your religion) in order to get more information about what happened. If you really want to know about all the religions and how they came to be then take a class about them or read up on them. It's not just that stories got passed down and got distorted. So learn about the other religions (and obviously more about your own) before you start to question things so much.
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Mar 18 2005, 12:44 PM
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 We are the cure. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 4,936 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 1,456 |
That's how religion is. That's why we're not all united under one huge religion, because we have different beliefs. Part of religion is just faith and not being able to prove everything.
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Mar 18 2005, 04:11 PM
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Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 1,746 Joined: Oct 2004 Member No: 52,931 |
oh goodness, please not another religion thread. these discussions never turn out well.
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Mar 18 2005, 04:14 PM
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im atheist and proud. wanna mess?
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Mar 18 2005, 04:17 PM
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Yeah, that's why I'm agnostic. Some stuff just doesn't add up.
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Mar 18 2005, 05:48 PM
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 crushed. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 9,432 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 20,026 |
yeah, I've always wondered that as well. I'm atheist and I'm trying to learn more about religions because I don't understand how just one can be right.
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Mar 18 2005, 05:55 PM
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 `non;chalance Group: Member Posts: 700 Joined: Feb 2005 Member No: 95,113 |
im atheist but follow buddhist teachings (: there are so many things about certain religions but i will never try to push my beliefs onto others.
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Mar 18 2005, 06:20 PM
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QUOTE(ahhishkaren @ Mar 18 2005, 1:17 PM) Yeah, that's why I'm agnostic. Some stuff just doesn't add up.  me too... i mean its all so fake. EVOLUTION, well thats what my mom says. |
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Mar 18 2005, 06:31 PM
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 i'm susan Group: Official Member Posts: 13,875 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 5,029 |
Yeah I was thinking the same too... so if our great great great great great great great great great greatttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt grandma and grandpa is adam and eve... how come i'm not white? that's what i not get.... but i still believe in God. the bible never mentioned asians in the bible, so it's kinda weird..... i always think this, but always foget about it because i was heedless to it. maybe after creative adam and eve...and like when they had kids... i guess God created asians, black people then... i dont know... but you know what? the bible chapters are missing... it's still scattered...so the bible is not completely finished... they are still searching for them...i hope the other ones that were lost, i hope they mention about how God created the asians and the black people too...
edit// but to let you know, when God told this guy to build the tower of heaven like after it got built. God made all those workers speak into different languages, so I guess God changed their skins too.... I guess that's when asian people, black, mexican people were created...and sooo on. This post has been edited by angel-roh: Mar 18 2005, 06:34 PM |
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Mar 18 2005, 06:40 PM
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i go to a catholic school, have been since kindergarten, and i somehow ended up agnostic.
 odd. but anyways, i respect religion and whatnot but i can't stand fundamentalists when it comes to the bible...drives me nuts.
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Mar 18 2005, 06:44 PM
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 No Day But Today. Group: Member Posts: 1,405 Joined: Feb 2005 Member No: 99,184 |
The answer to how did all the different races come to be is genetics. Mutations, people. Skin defects.. and how do we know Adam and Eve were white?
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Mar 18 2005, 06:46 PM
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QUOTE(caytexo @ Mar 18 2005, 1:14 PM) im atheist and proud. wanna mess? Rofl. Shut the f**k up. What the hell are you gonna do? Can you even do anything?  - Solipsist |
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Mar 18 2005, 07:39 PM
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 TOISU!! Group: Member Posts: 1,996 Joined: Jan 2005 Member No: 92,516 |
QUOTE That's not true. Adam and Eve had children, and those children had children, and people started exploring and moving to different parts of the world. They started adapting to the geography and climate of those areas of the world. Which in turn created different races. Wow..I so totally agree..and yes..if you don't understand anything..turn towards God's Word.. 
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Mar 18 2005, 08:48 PM
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hmm, yes I am a christian.
like what Spud said, Adam and Eve were the first human beings on earth...that's how the world started. from them. start from genesis if you have questions, answers to creation are in there. |
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Mar 18 2005, 08:50 PM
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heh, my faith in buddha has gotten smaller too .. my religion is totally mess up .. the eightfold path saids .. in order to be free from the world and not suffering .. you need to have everything and be balance ... such as .. wealth ... BUT BUDDHA WASNT WEALTHY OR BETWEEN WEALTH AND POOR .. even though he was suppose to be rich ..
the eightfold path is soo mess up .. |
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Mar 18 2005, 08:53 PM
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i feel so confused when i doubt God at times. my mom said that only people that believe in God will go to heaven.. but if He made everyone on earth and all, why did he make people have different religions?
my dad, on the other hand, says God has different forms in religion. i seriously have no idea. but i don't want to be an atheist. :/ |
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Mar 18 2005, 09:59 PM
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 In the land of make-believe, they don't believe in me... Group: Member Posts: 117 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 31,010 |
I'm not gonna get too into this, i believe religion is a personal thing
i'm a unitarian universalist. you can look it up if you want to know more. but it took me a long time to get to this point. i used to consider myself atheist, even explored paganism and shintoism too, so now that i reached a faith i am comfortable with, i feel that i value it more than if i just grew up with it. i call myself spiritual, not religious. to me, spirituality has more emotion and joy in it. and ppl find this strange, but i do believe in Jesus, but not the christian god so to speak. like i said, i don't wanna get to into this, i get too heated about these sorts of things. if you'd like to know more about it, just IM me brneydgrl185 on AIM. vvvvvvvvvvvvv please take the time to read this vvvvvvvvvvvvvv The Statue of God |
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Mar 18 2005, 11:07 PM
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omgah_itsmaggiex=new username. Group: Member Posts: 785 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 21,467 |
I never "Questioned" anybody about their religions and I'm pretty sure it said that in my post. I'm just confused about everything. Like I said befoe, how did everyone'sstories came to be with some think its evolution and some think its Adam and Eve?
In a way, I'm starting to become agnostic too. It makes more sense that apes turned into humans than all of the religions. |
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Mar 19 2005, 12:01 AM
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 Basketball is my Anti-Drug Group: Member Posts: 69 Joined: Sep 2004 Member No: 50,461 |
I'm catholic myself and I respect my religion..but I sometimes am skeptical about the whole Adam and Eve and all of that. Religion is all about faith and just believing. The other day my teacher was talking about it in class and this one student said that religion is probably a way to control people and I thought about it, it does seem like it. Either way I still believe in God and have faith.
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Mar 19 2005, 12:04 AM
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 the Ray... it filters through Group: Member Posts: 575 Joined: Dec 2004 Member No: 76,081 |
I'm Christian Protestant. And well.. I dunno.. all these stories, I just regard any that don't belong to my religion as "just stories". Hahaha, I realize that sounds incredibly narrow-minded, but *shrugs*. I think the different races came about after the Tower of Babel.
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Mar 19 2005, 12:10 AM
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Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 2,541 Joined: Aug 2004 Member No: 44,332 |
That is exactly why I'm loosing my faith.
I'm a supposed Roman Catholic. Religion was forced in me, so I never really had love for it. I think of religion more of a ritual I also believe the bible is false. Before the days of the printing press, scribes had to copy the bible word to word, but I think some slacked off, but some of their own stories in there, and walked off. So yeah, I think I'm turning Agnolistic? Is that the term for it? 
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Mar 19 2005, 12:18 AM
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 Holla if ya hate me Group: Member Posts: 2,386 Joined: Jan 2005 Member No: 80,819 |
I was baptized and taught to follow christianity but believe in any of that crap? No
 I see religion as something for people who need something to rely to get through life, rather than muster the strength to do it themselves. I don't need a contradictory storybook to tell me how to live. There are some people in this world shouldn't even be religious. They use it as an excuse for invading other peoples' lands, with grandiose illusions of an afterlife that can't be proven. They also use religion as a device for shielding their own ignorance and mental instability. What good are confessions when one can commit the same crime and repent several times over? Plus what happens to those, like Joseph and such? Was it just in those story book times that there were those that had godly powers? What about us in this millenia? I see nothing like that... huh? huh? |
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Mar 19 2005, 12:24 AM
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Basketball is my Anti-Drug Group: Member Posts: 69 Joined: Sep 2004 Member No: 50,461 |
QUOTE(WhiteLotus* @ Mar 19 2005, 12:10 AM) So yeah, I think I'm turning Agnolistic? Is that the term for it? I was trying to remember that word and it's Agnostic. Agnostic - One who is skeptical about the existence of God but does not profess true atheism. I'll definately call myself that. |
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Mar 19 2005, 04:56 AM
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 Hi! I'm Dani :) Group: Member Posts: 5,637 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,369 |
yea ive always wondered the same questions as you since im catholic too.
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Mar 19 2005, 07:44 AM
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Many things just don't seem to fit in to religion. Honestly, if there is a God.. he made us far too intelligent to expect us to continue believing in him.
I am agonistic- leaning atheistic. I was raised to be a Presbytirian (Christian Protestant). I left the church before confirmation because I didn't fit. I don't believe what they preach, I don't belong amongst them. I do attend Catholic mass every other Sunday with my boyfriend, though. I find some of the sermons quite interesting and entertaining, but I rarely take them to heart. Some of the things said are really insightful- but I take them from a different perspective. I take the scientific approach on things. It's that simple. It's the only belief you really can't find that many holes in- because it's what usually creates the holes. I've noticed in the Catholic religion, that when the Bible does explain something you are to take it literally, but when it does not, you're not to take it literally because it is figurative language. I find it kind of tiring. Because if you follow the Christian belief, God was spiteful and wrathful until he had his son Jesus. I jokingly refer to that as "He was just grumpy because he wasn't getting any." But I don't really believe it. I won't bash anyone elses views unless they push them on me. I don't take well to being told that I'm going to hell (which I don't believe in) when I don't believe what they do. So many people are going to go to hell of any of these religions are true. The only religion that I find trustworthy is Buddhism. We know that it was created by a man (a thin man, at that.. not your automatic thought of a large fat man). He teaches self-discipline (go figure), among other things. I find this believable, but it is not the religion for me. |
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Mar 19 2005, 12:54 PM
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 ...and this is me.. Group: Member Posts: 3,518 Joined: Oct 2004 Member No: 57,899 |
Religion is there...and back when it was written there were no questions as to why it was there....I am a christian. But I respect all other religions to be honest.
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