What religion are you?
 

I'm talking particularly what denomination of christianity are you.

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Born Orthodox, baptized catholic, athiest by choice.

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Father's Russian Orthadox, Mother's Gregorian, Baptized Protestant. I'm kind of a Unitarian Universalist though.

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My mom is some sort of Christian...but i dont know what. I know my dad isnt religiuos.

But I think im Protestant or something..i dont know what it means, so I say Im Athiest.

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By Baptism: Catholic
By Choice: Agnostic

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Disciple of Christ

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Protestant. Specifically Lutheran Christianity, but now with the United church (open race, sexuality.. what have you)

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I'm some sort of Christian because I "celebrate" Christmas and Easter. That's about as religious as I get though. I'd call myself Agnostic.

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what he said.

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I Celebrate Christmas because I fully believe that Jesus Christ was a real person, one of the greatest people of all time. A leader, an advocate of Civil Rights, an advocate of equality. I do not believe he was the son of god, nor do I believe he rose from the dead.

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Same here, about the Jesus thing.

I mean, water to wine actually isnt hard.

I'll try explain it easily.


Get 1 bucket of water and 1 bucket of wine of equal portions.

Keep putting an equal amount of wine into the water, and the water back to the wine.

Do this for a while.

After your finished, you have 2 buckets of watered down wine. Its diluted, but it is still wine.

I believe Jesus was a man, perhaps a great man, but he did not perform miracles. Things used to be passed by word of mouth, and people would embellish stories to make it more interesting, and sometimes just so people would listen to the story.

So imagine this going on for quite some time.


Put it this way, I think if we lived how people did 2000 or so years ago, and MLK did what he did, he would be crowned the new Jesus.

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I suppose that I continue to celebrate for other reasons. I don't care if Christ was a used car salesman, I believe in the spirit of the holiday as time to get family and friends together and share gifts and love, etc. It's not like people are only nice during Christmas, but it seems to give them an extra excuse to be jolly. Anyway, I'm not sure why I said any of that. *shrug*

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Your heartwarming testimony has a brought a smile to this aged face, I thank you my son.

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no ones mormon?

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A friend at another messageboard became a mormon, and he had to quit the Internet completely except for email. He's now going door to door in Utah. Too bad; he was one of the best administrators I've ever seen in action.

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Aww man.


I was hoping we'd have some Amish people here.

Oh well.

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Canyarion is a Jehovah's Witness.

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I live about 20 minutes away from the capital of the Amish in Lancaster, PA. I respect that lifestyle. Plus they don't have to pay taxes. Good for them.... I do not however respect when people try to pass a buggy without caution and almost crash into me head-on.

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Yup, that's gotta count for something!
I was born that way, but I studied it myself and know it's the truth.

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By Birth: Jewish
By Baptism (choice): Episcopalian


I go to school about 30 minutes from them! I respect them, but clearly most others don't... The Meninites in Lanaster are nicer anyway... do you live 20 minutes away east, north, or west?

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I was born into a Presbyterian family but we rarely went to church.

I was recently baptized and confirmed Catholic



And there are meninites here in kirksville too. They're interesting people but i've never struck a conversation with them.

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Baptized Catholic.
By choice: Agnostic.

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I'm about 20-30 minutes southeast from Lancaster.

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I live about 40-50 minutes southeast of Lancaster. I've only had to pass a few buggies, yet I haven't had the troubles you've had Germy.

Oh and about my religion.

At birth, I was Catholic. By choice I'm Agnostic.

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A very liberal Seventh Day Adventist.

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Baptized as Roman Catholic. I'm kind of agnostic at the moment.

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baptist... only... i don't like to go to church, i don't like the organization(*cough*hypocrites*cough*) and i don't really go along with a lot of the beliefs (ie: homosexual=evil)

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yeah, religion causes too many prejudices, in my opinion anyways

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Excellent explanation of why many non-religious people still love Christmas, like myself (in a traditional sense). As the song says, its the most wonderful time of the year.

Raised: Methodist, which is basically Christianity for lazy people. Our weddings are rediculously short. The first time I went to a Catholic wedding I was both confused (Why is everyone getting up? Should I get up? They're eating a cracker. Do I get a cracker? I'm hungry too, you know. Wine? They get WINE? CATHOLICISM ROCKS!!!) and bored to tears because it lasted... um... three days I think.

By Choice: Monotheist. I believe there are many paths to one God.

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I have a question about Catholisism.


Does it not say in the bible that to talk to god for him to forgive you, you need no middle man? So where the hell did the confession booth thing come from? Why do you need to tell someone else to tell god to ask for forgiveness?

So to sum it all up....Why is there a middle man, when it states you need none for god to forgive you?

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exxxxaaaactly...

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When I had to study about Catholicism a while back, there was one important rule that you learn:
Don't take the Bible literally.

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If your not to take it literally, who is to say what is right and what is wrong in it?

What is the point of following the Bible, and reading the Bible, if you dont follow what it says?

You cant edit religion to fit your society's needs.

Now women are viewed as equal, but in the Bible they sure arnt. So i guess that isnt literal as well right?

Like I said, you cant edit or change the religion because the times are changing.

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i guess i'm a christian but theres so much i wonder about in that, i have to go to church, my parents make me o i think i have no religion, i'm not all for it but i'm not against it, i believe that people can have different oppinions on religion, politics, etc.

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Well you do not understand modern Catholic faith. I don't think even Protestants take the Bible literally.

I've been to Catholic schools all my life. In high school religion classes we were told to not take it word for word, but still believe that Jesus was the messiah and that he opened the gates of heaven. It is fact that not everything in the Bible was written down at the time, in fact, the Bible was not written until well after Jesus' death. So it's obvious that words and events will be altered throughout time. That's what I was taught anyway.

However, the core of the Catholic beliefs have existed since the 11th century and are still believed today. Go to a Catholic church and see for yourself. Catholic churches still follow the word of the Pope, who is considered the holiest of men on Earth, and the one closest to God.

And sure, obviously women are equal now, but that's not changing the Catholic religion at all. I believe religions should grow with society. If women have earned the right to vote and be as equal as men in society, then the church should follow suit. However, obviously other religions, such as Islam, do not do this, mostly due to the fact that most Muslim countries are poor so women wouldnt have any rights anyway, even if they werent Islam.

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Let me ask you this. ( Not directed at one person, its a general question)



Since Jesus' birth, how many other emaculate conceptions have there been?


Whats the chance of an emaculate conception ever happening?

0%.

You know why.

Because you cannot have a god damn emaculate conception.

You need sperm. Its called Science. And dont "Scinece doesnt explain everything" me. Because it does.

And dont "What about the missing link" me either. Because bones decay, its a fact of carbon compounds.

And what about Dinosaurs, if they never existed ( as said in some religions) why are their bones here?
Keriann told me God put them there for us to study.
But why would God want us to study something that never freakin' existed!?!?

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This is what I think happened:

Joseph was the real birth father. There was indeed a man named Jesus. He did many great things for people at the time... bUT... his stories were blown out of proportion. I do not believe he healed anyone by simply touching them, however, there were other ways to help these people. Keep in mind the writers of the Bible lived centuries ago, obviously they did not know what exactly happened. Everything was just word of mouth, and people back then were pretty dumb.

As for Jesus being the son of a God, that's where I start to question Christianity in general.

And as for dinosaurs, I do not deny the fact that they existed. I mean, if we've got the remains... then it's pretty damned real.

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Im Roman Catholic, but Im not exactly an active member...im lucky if I get to church once a month.

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Roman Catholic by birth and by choice.

I would like to spend some time discussing the Catholic faith, but I'm not feeling up to it right now. As with most religions, there is much missunderstanding among those who do not practice it. Maybe we need a thread devoted to dispelling these missunderstandings?

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Wow....