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jayyy-lmao
January 21st, 2013, 03:37 PM
Where you raised that way?
Did you come to the conclusion yourself?

Desuetude
January 21st, 2013, 03:41 PM
Why do I believe what?

Lunar
January 21st, 2013, 03:41 PM
As for me and the religion I practice, I was raised Protesstant, and still believe in God, and Jesus.

somegirl
January 21st, 2013, 03:43 PM
Where you raised that way?
Did you come to the conclusion yourself?

I think you mean God? I'm not so sure that I believe there is a God but I do believe that there is something else after we die.

I don't go to church or celebrate any religious holidays because that's my choice.

Stryker125
January 21st, 2013, 04:12 PM
"I do dimly perceive that while everything around me is ever-changing, ever-dying, there is underlying all that change, a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves, and recreates. That informing power or spirit is God, and since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is. And is this power benevolent or malevolent? I see it as purely benevolent. For I can see that in the midst of death, life persists. In the midst of untruth, truth persists. In the midst of darkness, light persists. Hence I gather, that God is life, truth, light. He is love. He is the supreme good. But He is no god who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does. God, to be God, must rule the heart and transform it. He must express himself in every smallest act of his votary. It is proved not by extreme extraneous evidence, but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within. To reject this evidence is to deny oneself. This realization is preceded by an immovable faith. He who would, in his own person, test the fact of God's presence can do so by entering faith. And since faith itself cannot be proved by extraneous evidence, the the safest course is to believe in the law of truth and love. Exercise of this will be the safest, where there is a real determination, summarily, to reject all that is contrary to truth and love. I confess that I have no argument to convince through reason. Faith transcends reason. All that I can advise is not to attempt the impossible." - Mahatma Ghandi

^^ This pretty much sums it up for me.

jayyy-lmao
January 23rd, 2013, 08:56 AM
I mean whatever you believe. When I think belief, I see a big black hole. Nothing, but everything.

randomnessqueen
January 24th, 2013, 12:26 AM
i came to the conclusion

Abyssal Echo
January 24th, 2013, 12:49 AM
I was raised Protestant and believe in God and Jesus

CharlieHorse
January 24th, 2013, 01:05 AM
I was never of a religion (so atheist), but i'd like to be Buddhist :p
Or at least follow some Buddhist ideas.