Teens, what's your religion?

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I'm Christian but really, I don't know. I mean yeah I believe in god and pray and everything, but I don't go to church and neither have I been baptized. My ancestors were Chinese...buddhists, turks.....Muslim, perhaps even a bit of ashk Jew mixed in, so I really don't know, plus that some Christian websites are really annoying me to the high heavens.

I'm a catholic.

Orthodox Christian here. Crappy one a lot of the time, but nonetheless.

The Orthodox Church and Catholic church split over various things in the 900s. Basically, the Orthodox Church hasn't changed much since then, whereas the Catholic Church likes to constantly evolve to suit the times. I don't know, there's enough to write a few 10 page essays about the differences between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches, so yeah.

As far as my personal reasons, well, I was raised in a Fundamental Baptist household, so really strict legalistic horribleness there. Pastor would preach sermons about how you can't go to the movies ever because you'd be like part of "the world" and stuff. So after 6th grade, stopping going to church entirely. Was I guess Christian but like, more agnostic at that point, and then some bad stuff happened in my life and I got back to church.

The church I went to started from my highschool's Christian club, and it was one of those "emergent" churches, very much more leaning toward the Pentecostal/Charismatic end of Christianity. It was really neat at first, as suddenly I had a lot of "friends" and liked the whole like, community togetherness thing, but this place was the place that made me realize the reality of my NVLD diagnosis, and that I was different from others. Basically, the church model was like "hanging out" in the name of God, and...I couldn't get it to work.

So after a bit of crisis with a lot of beliefs, I finally just sorta settled on the Orthodox Church as being closest to what I believe in theologically. That, and it gives me a solid base of theology, so to speak, to work from, rather than being tossed about ideologically all the time. The other thing, too, the Orthodox Church is I think much more appreciative of "nerdy" types. Lot I can say, but yeah.

A confirmed Episcopalian, but with some ... quirks to my religious views.

I believe that all religions are partially right and partially wrong.
I believe that God is something like the Universe's CEO, and all the polytheistic Gods and spirits are lower executives and officials, in charge of progressively smaller-scale aspects of life in the universe.
I have not yet decided my views on Jesus, but have toyed with the idea of Jesus as a time-traveling missionary from the future.

All of this, in my mind, meshes perfectly with Christian values, as interpreted by my (very liberal) Episcopal parish. Go figure!

Atheist

When I grew up I didn't really have any religion forced down my throat like it is done in some families rather its presence was always around, as religion takes such a big place in culture. The main religion that was present was Christianity but from my view it was a fairytale, the bible was just another storybook (exept more boring) with magical creatures, talking animals and magic. The only religion I ever practiced was one I made up, which was made up of animal gods (Wolf, leopard, eagle, lion etc.) but even that faded away after awhile and after that I never really thought about God and religion, thinking about hell and heaven and being judged wasnt my kind of thing when I was 9-11 years old. Eventually as I grew and matured and my ideas developed and I started thinking about things more deeply, my views probably resembled that of an agnostic. There were so many Gods and religions I couldnt really come to any solid ideas on the matter. But now I have grown older, I have learned that you should look at things critically, even your own views to come to a solid viewpoint. I became an atheist when I finally saw that all these religions(mostly reffering to the abrahamic ones) seemed ridiculous. The world and life was alot more complicated, the simplistic view that 'God did it' seemed laughable, science has showed us in much more detailed way how we as human beings came to be and how the universe was created all backed up with scietific facts whereas all religions had to go on was a central doctrine, usualy a book full of contradicting rules and statements which people interpreted in multiple ways or just took litterally. I didn't need the threat of judgement to make me do good things and be an OK person, morals werent made by religions they were developed by human society.

Just thought I would write a background to my views, sorry if it seemed a bit blunt or affrontive, I generally respect the views of religous people (maybe not so much if you dont beleive in basic scietific theories or are against things like abortion and other rights). To all who are saying that Atheism is a religion( or like one) Atheism is a view and a thrame of mind it has no rules or teachings surrounding that view, thus meaning it cannot be a religion.

I'm agnostic.....not even sure if there's a god..though I'm closer to atheism

Nothing. I don't have a religion at all. I just don't have the time or energy to have and actively participate in one.

I'm Christian but I'm a bit mixed up...I also like some Islam, buddhist and Jewish ideas.
I'm not an active believer. That makes me sorta guilty.

I'm Buddhist. One monk at my temple said that Buddhism isn't a religion but a philosophy... though many disagreed with that.

We practice Amida Buddhism at my temple, but we've practiced Zen there at times before.

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Atheist.
And vegetarian (not really a religion but it's a belief system so y not include it?)

I don't have a religion, so I don't believe in any god but I'm not a materialist either because I believe in spirits and demons.