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[pigeon-and-crow]

049 Are you religious?

049: I do believe in a creator. But more in the sense that I feel that something must have made everything. I do not think that this creator messes with the universe anymore. Like a clockmaker who has created a clock and left it to tick away on its own. It makes the most sense to me. In regards to being religious by following any set practices? Not really. I celebrate what Jay invites me to celebrate but I have no real practices of my own other than one or two I hold from my family.

Another related question

[sidomy]

God’s religion

If, god has given us free will, then are we not able to be completely good on our own, by our own will?  According to the Bible we are not, therefore, by the Bible’s own admission, if there is an omnipotent, omnipresent god, the Bible is not “his” perfect word.  The Bible must be a man made concoction.

[dhampir-dyke]

tfw ur memeing on ur main and simutaneously screaming on ur vent

[the-forgotten-art-of-poetry-blog]

My Philosophy of the God Who Lost His Artwork.

Do ever wonder is God was just an artist,

Who created a painting so beautiful but lost it,

Why would one think this you may ask?

Why would God even do such a random task?

But I think that is the only way I could ever explain society’s diversity

And if God still had his painting then maybe society would not suffer from such controversy

Indeed do you ever wonder if each of us is just different details or colors?

Maybe our uniqueness as individuals could never be worth any amount of dollars,

All leading up to the magnificent creation,

Of not just thousands of nations,

But of our glorious stars and many other planets,

With mysteries so dark even I hate to not yet understand it,

With bacteria and elephants bursting into life,

With each animal or bred facing their our own strife,

And after all this ranting I know we are made in God’s image,

Because it his actions every human artist constantly tries to mimic,

Creating the Mona Lisa,

Down to the simplistic tasty pizza,

Perhaps in every artist there is still a piece of God’s inspiration,

The last thing every soul on this planet should have in their heart is what to me really proves his creation.

 - Written By Carleen Schindzielorz

[i-think-hermiones-right]

What I learned grades k-12 : " 'one nation under God'-Francis Bellamy (not a founding father/ actually a socialist minister who wrote the pledge for literally any country to use)....So you see children the founding fathers built this nation on the christian religion."

What I learned in college : " The Government of the United states is not in any sense founded on the christian religion"- John Adams (actual founding father) "oh yeah and btw 90% of the founding fathers were Deists."

Make up your mind American Education system. I honestly don't care if it is or isn't just tell me the correct thing to study

[awkwardlyrandomheather]

I’m a diest..

My whole life has been my family trying to force a bible into my face and make me live by it and go to church, and I’ve just never understood how anyone could believe in a book so much. I’ve always thought of the bible as just another book that tells another story. I think that if you can believe what happened in the bible then you can believe that anything that happens in any other book in the world is real. and just like any other book I read, if i don’t find it interesting then I won’t read it, so I haven’t. It seems to me that nowadays people believe more in that book than they do about God. I mean I believe in God but I don’t believe he wrote a book to tell people what to do, or he told someone to write a book for him. Also the bible has been translated so many times that there are so many different versions of the thing so even if I did believe in it, I wouldn’t know which to believe in.

Moving to Mississippi has only frustrated me more about this because my friends are always like, “oh you know how it says .... in the bible,” and I always just smile and nod because I don’t like arguing with anyone about me having not read it and then you can’t go a mile without seeing a church around here, where all you hear is scriptures from the bible. People are always saying “In the bible it says [some prejudice or racist thing] ” but I believe God loves everyone and everyone is equal no matter the color of their skin or the person they love. Some people need to wake and realize that they have no right to judge anyone, the only people that can judge you are yourself and God (if you believe in him).

Sorry about my rant, which probably is just a horrible jumble of words to anyone but myself, but lately I’ve been seeing a lot of post about Christians being racist or prejudice because of the bible and I figured I would share my opinion for once.

[heteroglossia]

But why bother making a universe if it’s going to slip away from you, the way Eurydice slipped from the grasp of Orpheus? Wouldn’t you want to have some quasi-divine power over how your creation unfolded, some way of monitoring it and making sure the creatures that evolved therein turned out well? At first I imagined that the creator might be able to send information into the new universe—to teach its creatures how to behave, to help them discover what the laws of nature are, and so forth. Then I started thinking. The inflation theory says that a baby universe blows up like a balloon in the tiniest fraction of a second. Suppose the creator tried to write something on the surface of the balloon, like “PLEASE REMEMBER THAT I MADE YOU.” The inflationary expansion would make this message exponentially huge. The creatures in the new universe, living in a tiny corner of the letter, would never be able to read the whole message.

Jim Holt, Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story

[mountainolive]

You argue and you bicker and you fight, Atheists and Catholics and Jews and Hindus argue day and night, Over what they think is true, but no one entertains that maybe god doesn't believe in you.

Bo Burnham