Here's a topic for all things holy! State your beliefs (or lack of), and...yeah.

Me? If you don't already know, I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Also known as the Mormons. I believe in Jesus Christ, who is the Son of God, and lives. He is our Savior and Redeemer. For more information, go to www.mormon.org for more information.

Well, now it's your turn!

i am a dyslexic agnostic insomniac
i stay up all night wondering whether there is a dog

sorry

I'm pretty atheist
I talk to plants and wind and stuff sometimes but you know
we're cool
they listen

that sounds more pagan than anything Ark... That religion is the one that basically worship the earth... i think. I'll have to look it up later

I have a thought time saying what I believe because I dont know... I think that anything is a possibility... but I just have this feeling that there is some kind of god. I mean something had to create us right? aether that or we were just always around but that one I doubt. The belief of god was kinda nailed in my skull when I was little... and I do believe in spirits and angels... no doubt. I just can't classify myself under one religion because I'm still trying to figure that out.

Well, I believe that not only is there a God, but we are all spirit sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father (who is the one that sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for us), and that we exsisted before this life with Him, and He created a plan for us so that we might achieve our highest potential. Sadly, a lot of people won't, but that's due to THEIR CHOICE, which we call agency.

That's interesting.

I don't know how to sum this up quickly, so let me post my religious history. Afterwards, there will be cake!

So, for most of my life (read: until I was 14-15) I was a subscriber to the beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church, mostly due to my upbringing. My Great-Grandma Gemma was a very faihful woman, especially coming from the homeland of Catholicism, Italy. Her room could have been called a shrine to God, Christ, and Mary. She wasn't the kind of woman to force her beliefs on others, she just told me what she believed in. The main thing, she said, was to be good and treat others with respect and kindness and God will show you the purest love. I was very young at the time, like about 5 years old, but I always remembered that. I grew up reading the Bible from time to time and listening to my Grandma Gemma telling biblical stories to me whenever I asked.

When I was a month from turning 15, my father came and took me from my mother, saying she was unfit to raise his child. To be fair, she was not a very good mother, but my father's such a total bastard about everything that I can't help but hate whatever he says. He began pointing out the contradictions in Christianity in general, but Catholicism in particular. His poionts made sense, but again, he was a total bastard about it, so he made me lose faith in God for a while. I still believed in Him, but i didn't have any idea what he was like anymore, or how to go to heaven, so I stuck to my (now-bastardized) Catholic ways, mostly out of spite towards my Jerk-Ass father. When I was 16, I began exploring other religions, Protestant, Islam, Morman, but I found nothing for a while.

Then I found Wicca, which is like Neo-Paganism. Basically, it came as close as I had ever felt with Catholicism (go figure), and i fell in love with it for a while. But something still felt off.

Then I met Storm, who introduced me to a book called Conversations With God. I read it, and I felt what can only be described as pure truth. If you want to know what it says, ask Storm or read the book yourself, because I don't feel like explaning it.

That about sums it up. Sorry for the long post, especially since (if you didn't see this one coming, you should be banned from the internet.)




THE CAKE IS A LIE, BITCH!!!!

*sniff* Mah little nerd is all growin' up! Posting his nerdlyness on the internets...


... As for religion I am a mixture of beliefs, I suppose they follow Buddhism and Taoism the closest. I'm fascinated by Eastern beliefs. I sorta believe in a God, so I'm not an atheist, but my God totally is not the christian God. My God is the Conversations With God's God. But sometimes I can't help but feel... one being couldn't have made everything... so I think there are probably more gods...

Well, in my faith, we believe that Christ built the universe right alongside his Father.

i do not believe in a god...i used to til after my bar mitzvah....(waits ten seconds to appreciate the irony)

after my barmitzvah i became depressed due to my tourettes... and storm i actually have tourettes, but not the cursing, anyways so it got me thinking, why would god do suck a thing, a god would not do that becuase that god would be a cruel god...so instead of believing a cruel god... i was like f it there is no god

Everyone has their own trials and afflictions, but they are all there for our own good. I mean, if you have no trials, how can your faith be tested? I have social difficulties, some have issues believing that they are in the "wrong body". Some have serious issues of pride, some might have attractions that they don't want people to know about.

There is no temptation or trial we cannot overcome. Especially if we have God on our side.

The religion (and denomination) I feel almost perfect for me is the United Methodist Church (Christianity, plz). A lot of denominations (and even certain books of the Bible) make me so angry because they say that the Lord God loves everyone, but then they go about and say that God won't accept people for who they are, which I feel is totally unfair. I mean, God made people the way they are (for the most part), so I don't see how they should be judged differently. With the Methodist Church, they believe that everyone is loved equally, even those from other religions. Why would God judge someone who came from a Hindu family? No questions asked, they're most likely to become Hindu. Is that their fault they're not following our God in the same way? No!

Exrant, for now.

I know a woman that once said. "They worship Jesus, but if he walked the halls of their own church they wouldn't accept him!"

I so believe that. D:

trials can be overcome, but i refuse to accept that a good natured being would willingly create disorders and make people suicidal because of it... and if i worship it will never be to a bad natured being, so therefore my only option was there is no god...i may start believing again if someone could prove to me that god is a good natured god...

Since late February I've been "experimenting" with being Christian again (non-denominational). I believe in Jesus/God, Heaven/Hell and all that, but then I don't really believe in Satan and don't agree with what's considered a sin or not. XP I'd also consider myself a "liberal Christian" for now, but by that I mean by my interpretation of the Bible, not politics. :/

(things are obviously subject to change)

I guess you could say I fall into a Neo-Pagan belief system.

At one point in my life, I was a Freewill Baptist. But after a while, I kept seeing stuff that just made me sick. For a religion that professed that one should "love everyone", there seemed to be so much "except for these people". To me it had boiled down to "Love everyone who agrees with you, and hate the rest."

I wasn't cool with that. In fact, I'd found my faith wavering for some time because of a lot of circumstances in my life. (I don't feel like going into all of them).

I do believe there are supreme beings, in a sense, as far as there being a creator or creators, but that they created and continue to modify the world and nature as they see fit.

I'm having second thoughts now, so I can't categorize what I think right now.

I knew I was going to change. :/