What is your religion?

Honestly i've never been baptisted or anything like that.. I have no religion... I mean dont get me wrong I believe that god does exist and i do pray or worship whatever you wanna call it I do do it, just not in a church. I dont believe that if you dont go to church you'll go to hell or blah blah blah because seriously people put too much into churches I mean most churches you have to get all dressed up nice and things like that then they look at you bad if you dont have money for the collection plate because your down on your luck so I skip all that.... I dont see the big deal with worshiping under my own roof in pj's.
 
My religion is Whedondom. Joss Whedon is our main God, but we believe in his family members as well.

I mainly pray to the demi-good Hot Platina, but I worship most entities from the Goddom of Buffy & Angel, like for example The Chosen One and The Broody One. But I also recognize the awesomeness of the other Jossverses and their demi-gods.

Some verse I have more fate in than other, for example I hold the Firefly-verse above the Dollhouse-verse.

It's a very individual religion, you can choose what or who to worship without the other Jossversers wanting to stake you (that would be "crucify" for christians). Normally. Some fanatics (a.k.a. fanboys and fangirls) could overreact in case you don't worship "correctly".
 
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Summerlilly
Too awesome!
I was raised Catholic, but I'm not sure what I am now. I tend to pray to people in my life who have died, I like to think they watch over me. I don't pray to God, because the world is pretty crappy, so I don't think he/she/it shows much interest in us. I think we were created and left to make our own choices in life. I don't think there's some paradise waiting for us after death, but I do hope that the ties and bonds we make with family and friends get to carry on somehow. I do think there's some greater power out there, that something created that little spark that set everything off - I have no idea what that is though or even if it's still around.
 
faeriegrrl27 said:
I'm a Jewish Atheist. I was born a reformed Jew and love the culture and community, but I don't believe in god. It's quite common among Reformed Jews. It's very much a cultural thing for me. I go to services, observe the holidays, say the prayers. I enjoy knowing that I'm connected to a thousand year old people. God rarely enters into conversation in a legit way. We talk about god and all, but more as an idea than a sentient being.
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I'm glad I came across this post. My dad works with a girl--a girl who says she's a Jew, but she says she doesn't believe in God, doesn't practice the religion, etc. My dad will ask, "how can she be a Jew if she doesn't... " etc etc.

So if you don't believe in God, but you are a "Jew", it's a cultural thing? I kind of understand it, and it doesn't annoy me (my dad gets really annoyed at that girl), but it is kind of interesting because I don't really see that much in Christianity.
 
Many in the Jewish community in America are officially scientific Athiests, but still do all the traditional holiday worship, the Passover story, etc.
 
I was born and raised Wiccan. Wicca is quite diffrent then the show but the show did put in a lot of the basic principles and beliefes. But no we can not do half of the stuff Willow does. One of the things I really loved about the show is that it did put our religon out there in a good light. Most shows or movies make Wicca to be something dark and evil. Wicca is actualy about the balance and equality of self, others, spirt, and nature.
 
I was raised a Catholic, but I'm not practicing. I do believe in God, but I have issues with organized religion and I don't think I need to attend a church in order to worship. God is everywhere, so where ever I'm at, I'm in His arms, right? I say a prayer every day and I'm sure God hears them.....that's good enough for me.
 
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I'm exactly the same.
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I was born and raised a Quaker, for the last 30 odd years, add to that another 5 to 7 years of becoming aware what I could do and my search for answers. I became what is known as Pagan, several years afterwards I found out that I am a descendant of a long line of witches.
I do believe in God, several really and Goddesses.
Being of a belief that is continually under threat from some other religions has helped me to be more tolerant to people of other religions. It is not a persons chosen religion that counts, it only matters to me what the person is like.
 
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Just so that we're clear, we know "Pagan" was concieved as a bigoted, insulting term tantamount to the worst stereotypical images we now have of Rednecks. I use it, occasionally, but, unbeknownst to many in the modern New Age movement, it was developed as an insult to people who believed in "backwards" or "primitive" traditions, so people should be as careful with it as they are with any group epithet.
 
I've assumed that pagan is just like the word 'fag' and the 'N-word'. It used to be an insult, but the insulted groups took the word and made it their own.

Didn't it use to refer to anyone who wasn't a christian? Ansd now it's more minority nature religions, like for example wicca?
 
Well my mother was a psychic and into all of that side of faith. She sent me to Christian schools when I was a child. I had the same faith as my mother really until she passed away 2 and a half years ago. Now I find I am without faith in any shape or form. I want to believe in something but I can't find anything to believe in at the moment being totally honest, I just feel lost faith wise.
 
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Sorry to hear that Nix. My father just passed away. Maybe someday you'll get your faith back.
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Willow-Tree
I'm so sorry. =[ Hopefully someday you will be able to find faith again.
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Megalita
I felt similar when my mother passed.
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I,too, have struggled with my faith since my dad died 4 yrs ago.
I guesse I was sort of raised christian and buddist. I mean my mother very much believes in Jesus and the power of God but my parents never forced any ideals on me. I really appreciate that. They taught me to take pieces of whatever religion I wanted and form my own beliefs. They where very open minded and very spiritual and that is how I would describe myself. But the two most influential religions for my parents were buddism and christianity. I would have to say that any religion practiced soley scares me a little. I think the reason would be that I don't really know what I believe and to think that there is only one way seems unrealistic to me. The ideas that if I don't also agree with your view points that I'm sinful or going to hell is too close minded for me. Not to say that all religions are like that, but some are.

I think there probably is some higher power out there. It think it's really whatever you want it to be. To me, that's the positive aspect of religion. If people need faith and something to believe in... as long as it makes you a better person you should hold onto that. I would love to someday study religions further. It is very interesting how humanity thinks!
 
I don't really like to talk about religion much, so I'll just say that I was raised to be a Roman Catholic. I don't necessarily agree with everything that is taught in that religion, though.
 
I'm a Protestant traditionally but I wasn't really raised with any sort of strong religious belief and consider myself agnostic. There's gotta be something out there but I don't believe in God.
 
Skytteflickan88 said:
I've assumed that pagan is just like the word 'fag' and the 'N-word'. It used to be an insult, but the insulted groups took the word and made it their own.

Didn't it use to refer to anyone who wasn't a christian? Ansd now it's more minority nature religions, like for example wicca?
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Yes, but you will notice that there are members of both the groups you compare Paganism to that say thoe words should not be used at all, by anyone, and others who want to "take them back." It is a politically sensitve issue. There is also the problem of how can we say we're all equals if one group can use a term, but other groups can't?

Not saying don't use it, necessarily, I use it. I used it in an above post. I just want to make sure everyone is as careful with the context as they would be with, as you so astutely point out, the N word, or "fag".

And it referred in the past to anyone who believed in "primitive, country" things, such as multiple Gods, the power of ancestors, the cycle of nature, reincarnation, magic, and animism. It did not include, for example, Jews, Mithrans, and later, Muslims. People had their own derogatory terms for these groups.
 
TheCheese said:
Yes, but you will notice that there are members of both the groups you compare Paganism to that say thoe words should not be used at all, by anyone, and others who want to "take them back." It is a politically sensitve issue. There is also the problem of how can we say we're all equals if one group can use a term, but other groups can't?

Not saying don't use it, necessarily, I use it. I used it in an above post. I just want to make sure everyone is as careful with the context as they would be with, as you so astutely point out, the N word, or "fag".

And it referred in the past to anyone who believed in "primitive, country" things, such as multiple Gods, the power of ancestors, the cycle of nature, reincarnation, magic, and animism. It did not include, for example, Jews, Mithrans, and later, Muslims. People had their own derogatory terms for these groups.
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Really? Pagan is considered a derogatory term? Huh.....I did not know that! We used it to denote nature-based religions (such as Wicca) in the World Religions class I took more years ago than I care to admit, when I was still in college.....oh, the halcyon days.....anyway.

Really, had no idea that it's considered an epithet now. Why would that be?
 
Well, the Latin paganus refers to a villager, someone from the rural areas outside of the centrs of Roman city culture... so it's pretty much equal to the modern English word "hillbilly".
 
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