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(04-01-2016, 12:49 PM)Vlad Wrote: I guess Ill take that as a yes, that you believe Jesus rose from the dead.

Then why do you join in mocking and ridiculing others on this board that also believe?  Aren't you being a hypocrite?


You mentioned salvation. So you must believe in heaven and hell too right?

Is there a chance you will be able answer this with a simple yes or no before going into your spin? ... you know, the simple yes or no you expected from Ted Cruz when asked if he ever cheated on his wife.

Ask me if I cheated on my wife.  Ever.  The answer is no.  That's easy.

Ask me about religion and it requires some explanation.

Challenging a religion isn't mocking.  IMHO

Posting a joke about a religion isn't ridiculing.  IMHO

As I said before, if I was raised in another faith I'd speak out and about more often about it.

I was raised Roman Catholic.  I know no other religion.*

My beliefs were drilled into me (figuratively) through 12 years of Catholic school.

As an adult I have modified my stance.

I believe in a god.  He uses whatever means are/were necessary to teach us about him.  He is not vengeful nor is he interfering in our lives in a daily basis.

It may not even be a "god"...more like a more powerful being.

He has a sense of humor too.  Look around.  That's easy to see. 

I don't know if there is a reward / punishment after we die.  No one does.  Some believe it absolutely.  Some do not.

All I know is that right now I am here and I want to do good by my fellow humans.  Not because there might be some great reward for doing it or that there might be some eternal damnation for not doing it...but because we are all in this life together and hating each other for whatever reason is a waste of the limited time we have while we are living.  

What happens after we stop living will be something else.  

The story of the resurrection may or may not be true.  No matter what it is a beautiful story to give people hope of something after all the suffering in their lives.  Clinging to or believing in that is not a bad thing at all.

Man corrupts everything eventually.  Religion is no different.  I have a faith...but the physical church on earth (any of them) plays very little part in it.  My faith has formed from all those years of indoctrination followed by all these years of having my eyes opened to what happens outside of that sheltered worldview. 








*Just a small caveat:  I have plenty of friends who are NOT Roman CAtholic and have read a little on many different faiths.  What I mean is that this all I have ever been and I've never been to any of the other churches enough to say I know them.