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Are you religious? If so, what religion are you a follower of and why?

Im not religious, mostly because my parents are not. Later on in my life (im 22 years old now) I never really felt the need to follow a religion.

Please keep it clean and respectfull !

I'm Hindu, since my parents are hindus and the country i come from is over 80% hindu. Not very religious since my parents were never very religious either. But i still celebrate the festivals <3

This always derails

I'm an infidel myself.

I'm Catholic, my whole family is Catholic, Dam Quebecois's. Being in a religious group is being in a bigger community.

I'm not religious
I don't care what religion you are, as long as you are not hardened criminal. Practice terrorism-political-social-religious violence. then it's all good!

Muslim, I follow it because i was raised around it, my parents/siblings/relatives are fairly hardcore faithfuls. I follow the basics for the most part. little to no activity in university's muslim student assocation (community work), though i have quite a few muslim friends, am i a bad follower/believer,? sure, though i'll realize it later on in life, for now, religion isn't my high priority tbh

I was born a catholic, but I don't follow it. I do however believe in A higher being.

An orthodox christian. Not very religious but I do have an idea of a god and what it represents

I was raised under a Roman Catholic household. I kept the Christian traditions until I was 16.

As of now, at 22, I'm an agnostic atheist.

nothing wrong with religion until you go to the far end of the spectrum

And where do you guys come from. Im curiuous how religions are represented in different countries

I'm raised as a Muslim and I believe in the Islam.

But since I've moved to the West, i've met a lot of other views on life. As I learned more and more, my believe in the Islam was tested.

I can say I've passed that test, because even now, with all the scientific knowledge I have obtained since I moved to Holland, I still believe in Allah and the Islam.

Orthodox christian. Im not religious, but I do respect my religion and celebrate most of religious customs and traditions.

pretty much an atheist, I don´t believe in god or a higher being.
but I have something like reincarnation stuck in my mind.

Blurred wrote:I was born a catholic, but I don't follow it. I do however believe in A higher being.

This.

FireVortex wrote:

Blurred wrote:I was born a catholic, but I don't follow it. I do however believe in A higher being.

This.

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Blurred wrote:I was born a catholic, but I don't follow it. I do however believe in A higher being.

Now I never understood this. How can you be born a Catholic, or a Christian, or a Hindu, or any other religion? You can be born into a Christian/Catholic/whatever family, but I don't see how you yourself (any human) would be born with a certain religion. Isn't the whole point of religion to believe in a higher being (or 10)?

If you're born Catholic, wouldn't that imply that you are born believing in God as the creator of this universe, the Saviour of our sins, etc? Seems to me this belief would come later in life, maybe as a child, teenager, or adult. So is it the belief in God that makes you a Catholic (or Christian, etc), or is it just because you are in a Catholic family that you are Catholic? Is it automatic until you one day reject God?

For me, I'm Christian, but I'm not too religious. I have the basic beliefs, raised in a Baptist church, but haven't gone in 15+ years.

PR0METHEUS wrote:

Blurred wrote:I was born a catholic, but I don't follow it. I do however believe in A higher being.

Now I never understood this. How can you be born a Catholic, or a Christian, or a Hindu, or any other religion? You can be born into a Christian/Catholic/whatever family, but I don't see how you yourself (any human) would be born with a certain religion. Isn't the whole point of religion to believe in a higher being (or 10)?

If you're born Catholic, wouldn't that imply that you are born believing in God as the creator of this universe, the Saviour of our sins, etc? Seems to me this belief would come later in life, maybe as a child, teenager, or adult. So is it the belief in God that makes you a Catholic (or Christian, etc), or is it just because you are in a Catholic family that you are Catholic? Is it automatic until you one day reject God?

For me, I'm Christian, but I'm not too religious. I have the basic beliefs, raised in a Baptist church, but haven't gone in 15+ years.

That's generally what people mean when they say they were born X religion, that they were born into a religious family and raised with the beliefs and customs. In a way you basically are born into the religion, since it's all you know up until whatever age you are exposed to a different view point. I always thought it was kind of implied that that's what it meant.

Anyway, I was raised in a catholic family, though we were never really very religious at all, I think the only reason we went to Church is because my mom teaches at a catholic school

I'm agnostic I guess, I don't believe in any of the Abrahamic religions or their gods, if I were to identify with any belief system it'd probably be Buddhism or Taoism.

And on your other point, Prometheus, about the belief in a higher being, I think what most people (myself included) mean when they say "I'm an atheist, or whatever, but I believe in a higher being/power, is that they don't believe in any of the mainstream religions idea of a higher being.

I'm......

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Human.

Raised catholic/Christian whatever. About 3-4 years ago I decided I wasn't going to follow religion and now I'm an atheist. Sucks going to a catholic school =(

Agnostic.

ninja

militant atheist

Yeah, well I'm a militant Buddhist.

I really don't follow anything; I've pulled things from a lot of religions, and basically they share A LOT of characteristics.

I guess I'm more along the lines of a humanitarian, existentialistic, Buddhist.

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AM I the only one that found this funny? lol

Adventist ---> partial atheist.
I see some benefits in Religion really. Though it maybe strict and outrageous it still help some % of people.

Wiccan.