04-02-2016, 01:20 AM
(04-01-2016, 01:19 PM)GMDino Wrote: 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.
If you are a true believer then asking if you believe there's a heaven does not require you explaining yourself.
Ask an Evangelical preacher if he believes in heaven, he'll simply say yes. Ask him to prove there's a heaven and he'll have some explaining to do.
You have agnostic tendencies. You want to believe, but have lots of questions.
(04-01-2016, 01:19 PM)GMDino Wrote: Challenging a religion isn't mocking. IMHO
Agree 100%, except you don't do much challenging of Islam....however, your description of this "Wizard who lives in the sky who created everything" is nothing but mocking.
(04-01-2016, 01:19 PM)GMDino Wrote: Posting a joke aboutareligionChristianity isn't ridiculing. IMHO
It most certainly can be. The intent of many jokes is to mock or ridicule. It depends on the joke. Often the "jokes' posted here mock or ridicule Christianity.
Btw... I noticed your posting of Christian jokes intensified since we've been posting on this thread. What are you trying to prove?
Switch it up with some Muslim jokes once in a while.
(04-01-2016, 01:19 PM)GMDino Wrote: 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.*
You don't live in a shell either. You should know enough about Islam by now to speak out about it. Or are you afraid of offending Muslims? You don't seem to be afraid of offending Christians.
(04-01-2016, 01:19 PM)GMDino Wrote: My beliefs were drilled into me (figuratively) through 12 years of Catholic school.
Similar to my upbringing. Didn't attend Catholic high school though, but I certainly was drilled with religion as a kid.
(04-01-2016, 01:19 PM)GMDino Wrote: As an adult I have modified my stance.
As have I.
(04-01-2016, 01:19 PM)GMDino Wrote: 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.
Ok, most all of that is about you neither denying or believing, or not sure...clearly an agnostic view. At least you don't mock those that believe this guy Jesus actually resurrected after being dead for three days then flew up to heaven...you leave it up to the other liberals and atheists you side with on this board to do that.
(04-01-2016, 01:19 PM)GMDino Wrote: 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. .
The first 2 sentences... agree, agree. Third sentence??...you attend a physical church on a weekly basis I assume, how does it not play a part in your faith?
That last sentence can be interpreted a couple ways. Don't quite get it.
