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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
Yeah, I had hoped this thread would be more philosophical in nature. What do you believe and why? What religious thinkers do you dis/agree with... but since I havent contributed anything myself I really can't complain.
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I don't think there's enough evidence to support the idea that Jesus was the son of God. I don't even think that Jesus's own words support that he considered himself to be so. I think he was an apocalyptic preacher. He said some awesome things, he said some not quite so awesome things. I'm also fairly certain that even if he were the son of God, present day Christians wouldn't recognize him or his teachings if he walked up to them on Sunday.
I have no idea what is out there as far as a deity or deities. I find I pray to "God" more out of habit than actual belief, and a pagan friend's use of "Goddess" slips in and out of my vocabulary but not really skimming my belief system.
I don't know what kind of afterlife there is, if any. The idea of none doesn't scare me nor does the idea of hell ala frodobaggins. No deity so restrictive deserves my attention, and total absence from Him/Her/It is hardly a loss.
The idea of "shopping" for a new religion is repelling. It seems utterly insincere. I've always educated myself on multiple religions but none seems to resonate with me, and if it didn't strike that inner tone in the first place then it wouldn't really be true to me anyway.
I don't tell my family because it would be a horrible disappointment, but then I hide quite a few things from them beyond that anyway. I can't associate, even in name only, with a Church that would watch children be molested, people with HIV infect others, women die in childbirth, and allow it to continue in the name of preserving church teachings over all else. Even so, I'll probably be there at Christmas Eve mass. :-/
I've learned from a lot of the Catholic theologians, and gleaned from other Christian theologians, and while I can appreciate their contributions to the field of ethics among others, I can't really say that I agree with any of them on the moral/theological aspects at this point. I'm interested in reading non-Western works, but I lack the context to put it together. I'm not getting enough out of the Quran I'm browsing on my Droid for example, I need a textbook-like analysis.
There, philosophical enough for ya?
(TL;DR Hi, I'm agnostic. Or indecisive. I guess.)
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