I'm Agnostic because I can't make myself believe in any one thing blindly, I prefer to take ideas from religions that I think are the best messages of how to be a good person and just live like that. I'm too open-minded to narrow myself down to one thing and it's too complicated and if I don't just automatically believe in something I can't force myself to, cause that's false faith. Do you think that's an acceptable way to be, from the point of view of somebody with your faith?
Well my faith for me isn't blind at all, but I can get where you're coming from.
So you take more of a postmodernist, new-age spirituality approach to it? Okay, great, that I can understand. I guess I kind of do the same with my faith, as I'd describe myself as being a liberal Christian. Some bits of the Bible I choose to take literally, some I don't, and some I choose to look at within the context that the passage was originally written.
And yes, your point about false faith is very good. Never force yourself to believe something, but you should always encourage yourself to explore things with an open mind, try new things, and at some point something might happen that changes it from being blind faith into faith with reason. Up until about the age of eleven or twelve, my faith was mostly blind faith, but I've been having religious experiences since then which have made it something more.
As for whether your view is acceptable, in depends in what sense. In the terms of being in this world and living as a "good human being" (i'm a cynic so that phrase is rather ironic to me whoops), then yes I would say it is. Urgh I don't want to say this okay but in the religious sense or at least the approach I take to it I would say it's not in terms of going to heaven/hell. That sounds awful and I hate talking about this so much (as seen in previous post) but yeah um.
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If prompted I will explain my views on that but I really really don't want people to feel like I am how the last anon described feeling that religious people think and yeah because I don't and that's not true and aghjskdlfg
