Born: Christian. (I guess, I was never baptised but it was my family's religion.)
Now: Deist.
Racial Make-Up: Irish and German heritage.
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Born: Christian. (I guess, I was never baptised but it was my family's religion.)
Now: Deist.
Racial Make-Up: Irish and German heritage.
:D
Birth Religion: Islam
Current religous status: Muslim
When I was born, my parents decided to baptize me protestant. As of today, I don't have a religion. I wouldn't describe myself as an atheist or agnostic. I think I'm a humanist.
I'm Canadian, but like most Canadians I'm a hodgepodge of lots of things. The only true part of me that's Canadian is that my great grandfather was native. The rest of me is Irish and Scottish.
I was born into a Protestant family, but I sure didn't "get it."
By the time I was 11 or 12 years old I apathetically left Christianity (as I understood it then) behind consciously, although my values were certainly fixed in place. Growing up the Western European Judeo-Christian ethic seemed the tacitly endorsed civil religion of the United States, culturally. I had many Catholic and Jewish friends. I'm not sure how many, if any, of us "got it."
Nowadays, I see spirituality as unattached from religion.
Spirit, to me, is like water. It takes the shape of the constraints it's subjected to. Religions are like vessels trying to hold or direct the water.
Some days I suppose I'm a practicing Christian, as an interface. Other days I may be immersed in Buddhism, or atheism.
Sometimes I'm just an oil slick on the surface of a huge ocean of water: not too deep, but can be colorful if the light's right.
Born, baptized, and rigorously raised Roman Catholic. I am an ex alter server/catholic school girl for 10 years. I'm agnostic/deist.
Nationality wise, I'm American. Ethnically, I'm a total mutt. Mostly Irish. On my dad's side I'm Scotch-Irish and English. On my mom's side, I'm Irish, Egyptian (a great grandparent was Jewish Egyptian, family was in Alexandria for ages), and Portuguese (another great grandparent). The Portuguese and Egyptian are 1/8th. I have quite a bit of Irish on both sides and family still there and all family here in the US closely identifies with the Irish parts so that's my main ethnicity.
Interesting comparison, backline, very interesting to think about indeed...
I was raised a Quaker (yes, I like oatmeal, no, I never made my own clothes), for a year and a half I studied Wicca (from 5th to 6th grade), and since 7th grade I have been an atheist.
On my mom's side I'm Scots-Irish, on my Dad's side Scandinavian.
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I'll stick to "What's your birth religion and current religious status?"
I was raised as an atheist.
After that, I stumbled on the bible. Got at awe with Solomon. Began believing in Jacob's god, was taught in the teaching of his son, and baptized. Until this day, I'm part of a flock in the Carioca* church.
librarius
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*"Carioca" is the name of people who were born or consider themselves from Rio de Janeiro, for living here awhile
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(... before I forget I answered this.)
Let me say it again, in other words .. :rolleyes:
even considering that it has nothing to do with literature as this forum would supposedly be :crash: ...
I was born an atheist, then I confirmed it, when I was a young guy. Then I stumbled on(to) a god, and, I've spoken about this, already.
lq~
Tim to the friends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ijCS...eature=relatedQuote:
Originally Posted by backline
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Originally Posted by billyjack
Far out.
I must be channeling Bruce Lee.
Or maybe it's Gary Larson's 33,000 year old gibbon ape named Gus.:wave:
I was and I am a baptist man.
I worship Zeus.
I was born Catholic and am now not quite agnostic, but more ambiguous... Its so hard to make up my mind with so many options and not enough proof... Though I'd like to just forget about proofs but its difficult to stray from science.
I am open minded to anything, I just want a form of faith that suits me... any suggestions?
Searching around for some kind of faith is self-mutilating. Study the universe and the spirit of man and philosophy. You won't even need faith in order to believe what you learn.Quote:
Originally Posted by MissTwain
Thats a good point. But I find its often hard to believe things that are always contradicted... I suppose thats a big part of the self-mutilating process :P its almost as if theres no real point if you can never trust anything to be true or not. I suppose perhaps we could all live for ourselves and do what our guts tell us... ah the identity search is often something we all never really come to an agreement upon, even with ourselves. I had an English professor once that claimed that all fiction surrounded an identity search of some sort. Do people agree?Quote:
Originally Posted by lichtrausch
And Zeus is pretty badassQuote:
Originally Posted by lichtrausch
What contradictions are you speaking of?Quote:
Originally Posted by MissTwain