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"I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself through harmony in all being...." - Albert Einstein.
Religion for the sake of religion will be the bane of us all.

I'm not an atheist.

" I personally feel religion is man's way of defining his own existance(sic) and creating a sense of purpose."

Yeah that sounds right.
However, I have thought of a number of different theories(including atheist), never following any set religion . Ultimately I decided: I'll live life the best I can. If god exists, cool, I might get into Heaven, if not, I won't be aware of it.


If you look at the complexities of science, It seems to be intelligently designed. I think It's just as likely that such a complex world just existed, from an exploding primordial atom, that some Benevolent being created us. So whichever...

I still don't understand how all the matter in the universe could be a single atom. Where did that come from? Big Crunch? Why? What could possibly cause that? I guess it's less depressing then the universe expanding outward until all stars die and the universe just burns out.

It seems to me that religions are simply ways to keep the flock together, and to control people by confirming their idea that they're very important.



The theory is not that the universe was a single atom, but that it was the size of a current atom, and yet much smaller than that beforehand. Atoms did not come into existence until much later, according to the theory.
I'm not satisfied with the Big Bang theory either. An available data set can make something look like it's disappearing into a point, while it doesn't actually do so. E.g. a picture of a road "disappearing into a point" at the horizon contains no information at all that says the road isn't actually disappearing into a point, because the picture is flat and you can not move into what it is showing. It's only because of past experiences you've had (moving along on roads) that you infer the road on the picture doesn't actually disappear into a point. The entirety of current observations of the universe may be like a picture, i.e. there's a dimension lacking in them that we're not aware of, because not only can't we move into the picture (travel back in time to see if the universe really disappears into a point), we also have no past experiences of a smaller (or equal-sized, or bigger) universe that can tell us anything.

Church of the WingedGnomeGoddess
my self-invented religion of which i am the High priestess.....

http://www.myspace.com/wingedgnomegoddess

I've always found most religions to be like organized crime ( the Mafia comes to mind).
Or like football--- everyone roots for their team (religion) and the object of the game is to wipe out the other team (religion).
I do follow the Church of the Subgenius, but most Catholics, Jews, Muslims and Baptists would not consider that to be a real religion.

But Subgenii do. And some courts find it dangerous enough to use it against parents in custody battles.

Tough I was raised as a christian, I´m an atheist.

Atheist.
Self worship, guess I could be called a Satanist.
Love for destruction to find the reason, guess I could be called a nihilist.

Reason, always reason. Logic, analysis, reason.
I surely have some wacked out theories on why things happen and I don't believe that there are no other things living amongst us but I don't follow a religion.

I have my own views.

Was raised pseudo-Christian...
then came new age nature religion type things...
then came Buddhism, taoism, etc that I looked at on my own.

I used to hold many beliefs when I was younger, it was so easy to just tell me something and have me believe that thing, but these past few years I've tried to pare them down to minimal beliefs with logical structures stemming from them.
I'd say that I'm agnostic now, leaning towards Atheism, but I think I'll always have a sort of subconscious feeling of mysticality about nature and the universe at large. It helps to give me to keep a healthy respect for the world and gives me a sense of perspective. I'm pretty happy with where I'm at, I've had to work hard to get here.

All of that said, I have recently considered becoming a Pastafarian =)

What gets me is not the question of how anything might exist, as just why it is all so weird.

I am working on a new grand unified theory I tentitively refer to as "The Big Bong."

I am in the minority here but I am a Christian. To each his own.
Having a child diagnosed with Aspergers will bring you to religion (or alcohol or twinkies or doritos or some substance) very quickly. Otherwise I would probably consider killing myself - no joke.

I know it's not cool or rational to believe in God these days - I don't care ! I'm too old to care about being cool anymore. I try to be in this world but not of it. It gives me peace and hope to believe that there is something better than this life. It is so easy to be cynical and negative - I am the queen of both of those but I really think the teachings of Jesus can ground you and make you realize what is important and what is not and to care about someone.

and just for the record.. religion does not equal prejudice - Please preface that remark by saying SOME religions - Please don't generalize

Only for some.

As a Christian, I find this thread interesting.
I thought foxman would be here.

don't agree with it...don't like a church telling me what to do