Born a freethinker, and still one.
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Born a freethinker, and still one.
What does "freethinker" mean?Quote:
Originally Posted by cipherdecoy
Freethought is a philosophical viewpoint that holds that beliefs should be formed on the basis of science and logic and should not be influenced by emotion, authority, tradition, or any dogma. The cognitive application of freethought is known as freethinking, and practitioners of freethought are known as freethinkers.Quote:
What does "freethinker" mean?
Interesting. Thank you. I was just curious. As I suspected, "freethinking" seems to come with its own set of constraints. But I suppose this is inescapable with any kind of thinking.
Though I didn't do much protesting (hardly even cried), I was born into a protestant family. The Kansas relatives were Methodist but the family in California went by the wayside. One aunt, however, became our token religious person when she became a missionary through the Baptist church. So then we all said we were Baptist. My parents sent me to Sunday School and just about everyone's Vacation Bible School. I loved it. Couldn't get enough. As I got older I began going to church also, mostly general protestant and Baptist. I refused to be baptised though.
Then, when I was 21, I was baptised, and happily and freely joined the United Methodist Church. Some say the Methodists are watered-down Baptists. I don't believe that for a moment. As a woman I never felt worthy there. I love the Methodist church but I embrace many things about many religions. I think I am more spiritual than anything but I need a place to focus my talents and energy.
I am a Native Daughter of the Golden West with an Irish and French heritage and some Bohemian too.
I was a Hindu by birth and now I argued then that Hinduism was the greatest religion and the rest are not as great as Hinduism. Now I take all religions as equals.
i'm christian by birth, but i do not consider myself a religious person. i think that every religion is equal, but i'm not a strong believer in god (in the meaning, that he is such a supernatural creature, who can rule our lives, who can punish me for all my sins). and, frankly speaking, i do not like the idea, that i should be affraid of god, because he is more powerful than me. i do not understand the idea of religion, which is based on fear of god. i prefer love, respect and other things of this kind. and i think, that god is some kind of energy, or, maybe, nature.... or... i just don't know.
I was born without any Religious belief. I'm puzzled that anyone should be born believing. I was taught Xtianity by a nice man with a stick. As soon as I began to think;I returned to my original state.
Nobody is born with salvation; they may be born into a religion. Religion will never bring salvation, that takes God getting a hold of the heart of someone. I accepted Christ as my savior, thus I became a Christian. But my walk with God is mine alone, not pre-packaged by any branch of Christianity...
God Bless
Pen
I was born into a Roman Catholic family and I still practice this religion. I attend church on Sunday's because I want too and my children accompany me. I was never forced to attend church as a child and I feel because of this I wanted to attend as my children do today.
I was born and raised as a Catholic. Now I am an atheist.
Roman Catholic is my religion. Hi EricP, would you mind if I ask you why you shifted to be an atheist?
I never really believed in god, even as a teenager wasting away countless beautiful Saturdays in stuffy, lengthy catechism classes. I basically went through the motions, following the path of least resistance to avoid confrontations with my parents. I became much more certain of my own personal lack of belief when I began reading philosophy. When I discovered the writings of Bertrand Russell, Nietzsche, Voltaire, Diderot, D'Holbach, Freud, Marx, and Darwin, I felt like a whole new world opened up to me. I haven't looked back since. I think that I became a much happier person once I moved away from home and was able to stop pretending.Quote:
Originally Posted by eyemaker
I'm not a narrow-minded person, though, and some of my heroes are Catholics: Oscar Romero, Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, Desmond Tutu, etc.
As Muslim youth it seem to me that religious people were most wicked people in the world. That had me look to other religion which did much to expand my knowledge. Today my view nondenominational.
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Originally Posted by Hypercrit Htd
What is your religion?
Born - Christian (church Of God - Cleveland, Tn Hq Denomination)
Now - Christian (church Of God - Cleveland, Tn Hq Denomination)
.....33 Years And Going.
*not that I was born a Christian - kinda looked funny when I saw it. I was born into a Christian family and became a Christian myself kind of late, age 26. Though I went to Church all my life. I respected Christianity, believed that Jesus was the answer, but still wanted to control my own life for 26 years until I gave it to Jesus (like I should have done many years prior).
I'm a Hindu
Birth Religion; Roman Catholic
Current Religious Status; Spiritualist
Desmond Tutu is not Catholic. I believe he's Anglican.Quote:
Originally Posted by EricP
you are right Virg. He was ordained the first black anglican archbishop of cape town. :)
I was baptized Methodist, but I have always been atheistic agnostic (well, since I was able to think and remember, which was around age 5). I'm a European-American, but, first and foremost, I am a conscious citizen of the world.
Born - A Roman Catholic, in London, of complete Irish heritage. Some i'm one of them..london-irish folk...yet i've moved out long ago.
Now - well, now i'm not sure. I respect my religion and i study religion at sixth form/college held in a catholic school. Basically, I put my opinions to one side and learnt the opinions of others, yet did not follow them, just observed them. Its all I do. I love to study faith, and what it does to people.
However, I myself have thought to renounce my faith mainly because it serves me no purpose anymore, I have a bible that i read, just as i have a koran. Every one of these world faith books contain lovely ideas which, should I agree with, I might live by. Hell, i've looked upon the work of the current Dalai Lama, all the way to that of Anton LaVey. I'm still trying to define God in my life, currently he is a non-physical symbol for universal brotherhood, yet something more would be nice. Maybe i might just resort to some pagan faith thats all about peace and worshipping the Sun. I can see the deal with that, without the Sun there would be no life on Earth.
I don't know. :D
Birth religion? People are not born religious.
My parents are if that counts. My mother is a catholic/santeria practitioner and my father is a satanist.
I'm part irish
Part black
Part cuban-taino
part scottish
which in turn fragment into bits of little parts since my family seems to feel the need to marry quite different people from random countries.
I'm not religious right now, i like not to believe in lies.
the phrase 'opposites attract' springs to mind. cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bakiryu
I'm chinese and an agnostic theist.
I am half Chinese,and half Hokkien.Nonetheless,I intend to be a Christian.
Religion is not a thing I was born with or attached for that matter now. I do not want to repeat the same mistakes that divided me among my own brothers and sisters and separated me from being in the same clan you are. No I do not want to belong to any anymore now.
Friends I am none, not even a human being and if I say I am a human being there are other beings or species they are not human beings and they are just beings and I am a being and nothing else, a part of this existence. I do not want to draw a line even between beings and non beings. We are the universe, a whole, an integral whole!
hello~
My mum was a non-practicing Catholic, Dad an Atheist, so I was baptised Catholic as a baby. Now I am a Christian which I find very difficult as I find myself struggling everyday. I received life but find it hard to accept.
I'm Jewish, born to very irreligious parents who consider our culture more important than our religion. I attended a yeshiva for most of my youth, though I later went to public school.
I fancied myself a very reluctant agnostic, because I don't practice as often as I should, and feel that I need to practice my religion regularly in order to regularly feel G-d's presence. I'm very much culturally Jewish, and agree with a great deal of, if not all, the tenets of my religion but try to keep my Bible and laws in context so I better understand them, and whether or how I should agree with them. I feel my idea of G-d very much half-formed, and am so unsatisfied with that. I also feel that living in a very atheistic society, despite my religious Jewish neighborhood, does me more harm than good. Whenever I practice, I am happy, but somehow, I do not do as much as I should.
My current religious position is Vaishnavism.
Islam; from craddle to grave (by God's grace).
I am a Roman Catholic but not a practicing one in the sense of going to church. This is strickly for myself - I don't believe that you have to attend a certain place on a certain day to prove that you believe so I guess I practice religion in my own way.
My religion is kindness to all.
Birth religion - none
Following religion - baptist
Next - methodist
After - I dabbled (dabbled meaning looked into/studied) Wicca
Now - pure and absolute Confuzzledness!!!! :( I belive in something, I just don't know what.
Born into a Hindu orthodoxy family and being a devout Hindu for a long time now I am in a state I can not totally subscribe to Hindu Views and ideas when it comes to descending on a domain of philosophy. Unquestionably Hinduism is a great resoirvoir of philosophhies and unlike Christiantiy, Judaism and the like Hinduism is rich in philosophy. Christianity has enriched it drawing on greek philosophy whereas Hinduism is rich per se.
Raised Christian (Lutheran), now i'm pretty much like Equality - utterly confused. I call myself agnostic, for lack of a better word.
1/2 Scottish
3/8 German
1/8 Swedish
Scottish, Roman Catholic, lapsed, atheist, once again a believer (in that order!)
I'll stick to "What's your birth religion and current religious status?"Quote:
Originally Posted by Jtolj
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
klicky
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*"Carioca" is the name of people who were born or consider themselves from Rio de Janeiro, for living here awhile
i am christian, orthodox actually.well, i do not know if i am a good christian after all, since3 i do not go to the church(at least not more than twice a year. sometimes when i feel like doing so, i go there to light a candle and pray if the church is empty).
i don't know if i would ever change my religion; well, i don't think i would do so. i have studied a few things about other religions as well, but i have come to the conclusion that none of them expresses my feelings and is at total accordance with my beliefs. what i know is that i should love people and try not to do any harm and learn to forgive. and if these are not enough in order to be considered a good christian, so it might be