What are your religious views?

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I'll get back to you when I find my kaleidoscope.

Last edited by cberg on 18 Oct 2015, 2:15 am, edited 1 time in total.

Atheist.

Christian feminist, young earth creationist/microevolutionist, sola Scriptura (the Bible is my only authority). I believe Jesus died for our sins and only faith in him can save you.
I'm 100% sure that a God exists, but I believe in science, so I back up my trust on the Bible with archaeological, historical and scientific evidence. Was all of it refuted and it was proven the Bible was false, I'd probably become an agnostic theist.

One thing I could add - I joined BOTA in 2013 and technically on paper in California it's filed as a religious organization albeit it really tries to interrelate and penetrate a series of sacred philosophic and mystic/magical systems. Like AMORC they have weekly monographs to study - in this case esoteric tarot study and meditation, Hermetic Qabalah and the tree of life with its 32 intelligences per the Sefir Yetzirah, the cube of space which is a different arrangement of the 22 tarot trump also along the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet, and as time goes on further explorations into esoteric astrology, alchemy, sound and color, The Great Work, etc.. I only really found this order after wading past a lot of new-age, semi new-age, going back for a serious study of the bible, and finding that the late 1900th century Golden Dawn pretty well had their finger on the pulse of things - of which this order was in a lot of ways a life preserver for many of their findings (as well as Israel Regardie's so-called Complete Golden Dawn).

It's been really fascinating to read up on just what kind of, not so much hidden as less-known, philosophic history the west has by way of Greece, Egypt, and Alexandrian Judaism as brought up from their roots in the various local and religious mysteries up through the Alchemists, the Rosicrucians, the discoveries of the more renowned Catholic mystics, etc.. The core of all this stuff really seems to much less about finding a religion to end all religions (particularly as we seem to be in too big a system for that) so much as finding philosophic ways to resolve internal challenges as well as developing the subjective life and faculties in a more disciplined manner.

Agnostic, in that I believe there are many paths that lead to the same place. I choose a pagan path.

metaphysical views: monistic emanationism (a la Gnosticism, Neoplatonism)
spiritual practice: internal alchemy/meditation/yoga
approach/ethics: Taoism

I'm Catholic, but I refuse to believe that a loving God would send non-Christians and people of non-cis sexualities to Hell.

When it comes to sexuality, I believe that God wouldn't punish people for something that isn't a person's choice. As for religion, I believe that God would give even atheists the chance to know him as the one true God, and give the the chance to know Jesus as our savior.

I believe the only things you should go to Hell over are rape, active discrimination (like the KKK), and murder, and only if you're not sorry at all.

I currently consider myself to be an ignostic atheist . Though with that being said , strange as it might sound , I do have a personal interest in Judaism , more specifically Humanistic Judaism , and Reconstructionist Judaism. I've read a number of books by Rabbi Harold Kushner , and have been influenced to some extent by them. But I am still not entirely convinced that there is any sort of God for sure. I'm open to the idea though.

Christian Deist and student of the Roman Stoics (Musonius Rufus, Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius)

Low Heathen, so low I sometimes fall out of the bottom of it.

I'm a Unitarian Universalist

Welcome to WP.

Lifelong atheist. I have never understood the urge to believe in anything out of faith.

Agnostic Atheist.

I don't believe a god exist. All I see is a lack of evidence but I also know that I can't know for certain.

We'll say 99% certainty.

When I was young, Christian. It was hard to shake and flaired up every once in awhile as an adult. Had to get rid of that programming, (line of thinking) had to completely rewire the system.

Now I would say I'm Agnostic. I believe in something after death just don't know..

I think however life is all about experiences. No evil or good, just situations. It's so much eaiser now for me to not be a judgemental Ahole this way, and accepting whatever happens is so much easier.

Last edited by richardbenson on 29 Oct 2015, 7:30 pm, edited 1 time in total.

That's a good way to look at it and probably a lot closer to the crux of things than most dogmas.