What is your religious background?

Originally Posted by ugaimes

I like what you said Katherine. "I've got my spirituality and that's good enough for me."
I was raised in the United Methodist Church, so that is the religion I most closely associate myself with (though I've given thought to maybe attending our local Unity Church).

However, to me, religion is THE most personal thing. I've become so jaded by organized religions and people politicizing from the pulipts....it's my personal relationship with God and not anyone else that guides my life!

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Not to be punny, but AMEN! I'm Catholic, but I've been lucky enough to go to churches that don't have politician-priests. I'm all about letting everyone believe what they want, as long as they don't force it on me!

I'm a Catholic who was raised Assemblies of God (Pentecostal). I converted prior to marrying a Catholic. At the time I didn't take it too seriously but I've since become much more faithful.

Originally Posted by redhairedgirl

.... I'm all about letting everyone believe what they want, as long as they don't force it on me!

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Cindy

I'm LDS...

I consider myself both an atheist and a buddhist. It might seem like a contradiction to some people, but not to me. I guess I just have my own weird religion.

I was baptised as a catholic, but my parents never went to church or believed in religion. It's still a mystery to me why they had me baptised. And why my brother, who is even less religious, had his son baptised.

I just got back from Mass and I liked it! The sermon was nice and short- more bible less sermon- I like it that way! Everyone was very friendly as well. I like the fact that this church has Mass on weekdays. I haven't been able to go to my own church in quite a while because I work every Sunday. I will definitely be back. It's kind of funny to me that I like Catholicism so much when I'm a Quaker and we're so into simplicity in worship.

Jewish.

Agnostic

Was raised Catholic, tried the Wiccan thing but never attached to it. Still kinda interested in it. Now, I'm more into Native American spirituality. I don't think you need to go to a building to pray and have someone preach to you what you should and should not do.

I was raised in a Pentecostal church but, I'm an agnostic. I can't wrap my mind around most religions' characterizing me as a second-class citizen, because I'm a woman.

Christian-Non Denominational. Most of my family is Catholic. I have a Great Aunt who is a Nun. I love my church. My pastor is an 82 year old woman. She is from New Zeland so she has a beautiful accent. She's a very neat lady. She worked in the fashion industry in her young days and her sister still models.

I was raised Catholic, but realised when I was around 15 that I didn't believe in God and that I didn't like or agree with religion, especially Christianity (no offense to anyone). Since then I've been an atheist (with maybe some agnostic-y leanings).

Originally Posted by rosiemac

Thats what i thought?, but a friend told me anything different from protestant or catholic was classed as C of E?.

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actually the classifications go Roman Catholic (like me) Orthodox (russian or greek and maybe others) and Protestant (which is everything else) (and my spelling is off)

the russian and greek orthodox chruches broke away from the Roman Catholic church relitivly early in the church's existance for reasons i am not very clear on, and the protestants broke away created everthing else when luther nailed his little note to teh chruch door a couple hundred years ago and king henry wanted a new wife.

if my history is correct.

Christian- Lutheran

Originally Posted by tigerfanfrv

actually the classifications go Roman Catholic (like me) Orthodox (russian or greek and maybe others) and Protestant (which is everything else) (and my spelling is off)

the russian and greek orthodox chruches broke away from the Roman Catholic church relitivly early in the church's existance for reasons i am not very clear on, and the protestants broke away created everthing else when luther nailed his little note to teh chruch door a couple hundred years ago and king henry wanted a new wife.

if my history is correct.

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You got it!

Another atheist here.

Iâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]m a Muslim. I got to know Islam when I was working in Saudi Arabia 16 years ago.

The holy Quran teaches belief in God and all of his many prophets – peace be upon them all (Jews and Christians are referred to as “the people of the bookâ€). Jesus – peace be upon him - was one of the prophets.
Mohammad – peace be upon him - was the last of the prophets. Quote: “With this I have perfected your religion.â€

Muslims are told that whenever there is an agreement with people of a different religion this agreement must honored under all circumstances.
Fight is only called for when Muslims are attacked – then Muslims are called upon to defend themselves and to struggle for Islam and for themselves.
Muslims are strictly forbidden to initiate a war.
It is a heinous sin to attack and to harm “non-combatants†and especially to attack and to harm other Muslims.

Those “Islamic†terrorists are not Muslims at all as they are blatantly violating the most basis teachings of our religion, they are defiling and insulting Islam. They are just using Islam as a pretext for their wordly ambitions. They do not represent Islam as they are insulting Islam!
Nobody would see those bomb-throwers in Northern Ireland as representatives of the Christian religion either.

According to the holy Quran a womanâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]s possessions remain hers when she marries.
In Germany a husband could dispose of his wifeâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]s possessions until sometimes during the 50â€[emoji]8482[/emoji]s meaning if she had (for example) a hotel her husband was able to sell it without her being able to interfere. Islam was far more progressive than the legal customs in many other cultures.

Islam calls upon all Muslims to struggle for education and knowledge. Around a thousand years ago the orient was leading in science and medicine.

Muslims are called upon to be charitable and to provide for others in need. This includes kindness towards all others including animals.

In his sayings Prophet Muhammad – peace be upon him - emphasized the need for kindness and he also emphasized that this includes the kindness to animals.
It is also know that he was a great cat lover.

C U later

Joe

humm let me see

Grandma was Jewish
Mom was raised Jewish
Dad who knows.. Christian of some kind
Papa was Catholic

I went to Luthern school as well as non denominational

Also exposed to Jehovah Witnesses

Any wonder I dont go to church???

I would say I believe in God/ Jehovah/ Ya Weh and try to avoid churches at all cost

I'm not any religion at all really. Churches make me uncomfortable. They are soo big and open. Not only that, but everyone in there always wants to touch you and talk to you and similar stuff like that.

Me in a church is like putting a feral cat in a room and releasing ten children upon it. I'm a shy person and I dont like all that attention.

Some people are snooty too and look at you like you dont belong there. I also dont like people forcing beliefs on me... if I want to say Jesus Christ in an exclamation I will.. Ive been saying Jesus (Hay zeus) Christnakof for my mom, but she still gets angry. *sigh* I dont aggree with everything each religion does either. Some religions you cant eat this on this day, or you have to do this this other day.

I just keep a set of morals for myself. And they arent clearly defined either, it depends on the situation I am in.

I have strange theories also. I think the sun spews out a new planet every couple hundred billion years. When earth gets pushed back, it will become like mars, mars will explode/implode to look like saturn, saturn compresses kind of to look like jupiter, then jupiter would compress and start to look like uranus. The axis starts to turn with the impact, and as you get colder, the gasses turn into solids/liquids making neptune, and eventually it gets so far off all the water freezes away, which makes pluto, and pluto eventually will just break off. (sorry if I didnt put all the planets in the right order but you get the point) The sun will run out when it cant spew out any more planets. I dont know if it replenishes, or it just gets smaller though. Either that or the process is reversed and everything will eventually get sucked into the sun, until it is so large it explodes .

I believe in evolution.... aliens I believe in... I think either aliens gave us the boost from chimpanzee to human, put their race into a group of chimps (otherwise wouldnt chimpanzees have evolved as well?) or we end up realizing WE created ourselves and can go back in time or throw something in a certain black hole to make humans...

I do kind of believe in the adam and eve thing. I believe that the point of alien/ future human contact was there, and that is where we first became human like, and then our ancestors started to spread throughout the world. As they went further up north they became whiter, the ones who stayed by the equator stayed dark. The ones that settled first evolved the fastest (the europeans and the like, which explains why the indians in canada, north america, and south america were farther behind)

And thats basically my theories on that. I think the bible and others have stories you should set morals by, but you shouldnt run your life by exactly what the bible says, and by what other scripts say.

wee how about a very different viewpoint eh?

Originally Posted by Joe1959

Iâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]m a Muslim. I got to know Islam when I was working in Saudi Arabia 16 years ago.

The holy Quran teaches belief in God and all of his many prophets – peace be upon them all (Jews and Christians are referred to as “the people of the bookâ€). Jesus – peace be upon him - was one of the prophets.
Mohammad – peace be upon him - was the last of the prophets. Quote: “With this I have perfected your religion.â€

Muslims are told that whenever there is an agreement with people of a different religion this agreement must honored under all circumstances.
Fight is only called for when Muslims are attacked – then Muslims are called upon to defend themselves and to struggle for Islam and for themselves.
Muslims are strictly forbidden to initiate a war.
It is a heinous sin to attack and to harm “non-combatants†and especially to attack and to harm other Muslims.

Those “Islamic†terrorists are not Muslims at all as they are blatantly violating the most basis teachings of our religion, they are defiling and insulting Islam. They are just using Islam as a pretext for their wordly ambitions. They do not represent Islam as they are insulting Islam!
Nobody would see those bomb-throwers in Northern Ireland as representatives of the Christian religion either.

According to the holy Quran a womanâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]s possessions remain hers when she marries.
In Germany a husband could dispose of his wifeâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]s possessions until sometimes during the 50â€[emoji]8482[/emoji]s meaning if she had (for example) a hotel her husband was able to sell it without her being able to interfere. Islam was far more progressive than the legal customs in many other cultures.

Islam calls upon all Muslims to struggle for education and knowledge. Around a thousand years ago the orient was leading in science and medicine.

Muslims are called upon to be charitable and to provide for others in need. This includes kindness towards all others including animals.

In his sayings Prophet Muhammad – peace be upon him - emphasized the need for kindness and he also emphasized that this includes the kindness to animals.
It is also know that he was a great cat lover.

C U later

Joe

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Thank you for posting this! I truly appreciate it at this difficult time in the world! Thanks again