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Edited by DemonWarfare:
5/27/2015 11:35:44 AM
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State your belief & why you believe in 100 words or less
[b][u]READ BEFORE YOU POST!!![/u][/b]
I am really interested in why people believe what they do. [b]If possible I would like to keep this post clean. [/b] DO NOT DEBATE, DO NOT MAKE FUN OF OTHERS. Simply state your belief and why. I don't want to see anyone saying anything negative about anyone else but feel free to leave a friendly comment. For the most part however i would like to refrain from anything but stating your beliefs.
Obviously i can't control you guys but i thought why not lets give it a try.
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Belief: Atheist
Why?: I am an atheist because it is logical and supported with logic, facts & science.
What led me to atheism was the fact I always questioned everything. I never just accepted what other people told me, I always pursued my beliefs and cross checked information I found.
I think the most important thing in life is to pursue what you believe. Look at all the angles and question your own beliefs. After asking questions & finding answers you will arrive at a belief that you fully stand by that had a concrete foundation.
Wisdom begins in Wonder - Socrates
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Agnostic Eastern Orthodox Christian with some universalist (we call it apokastatasis) leanings. Why? I believe the fact that every human inherently desires something higher than the empirical world can provide is probably proof enough that something higher truly does exist. Otherwise we wouldn't have the need for it. You can call it existential I suppose. And given that Orthodoxy is the only religion I'd truly call "transcendent" since the Western constraints of the Enlightenment and Scholasticism can't be wrapped around it like Western Christendom, I tend to find it more credible than Western Christianity. Why Christianity in general? Because if God is really is real, the Incarnation to me is the only thing that makes him worthy of worship. Why the agnosticism? Because in hindsight, the whole notion of religion itself seems absurd in light of our world. If anyone is really honest with themselves, they'll see how crazy this whole thing really is. Yet, I tend to think that maybe it's so crazy that it just might be true. Again, the only true religion to me must be a transcendent one. Why the universalist leanings? Because in Orthodox theology Heaven and Hell aren't places you go to when you die, but adjectives describing your spiritual state of being in relation to God's love. Salvation isn't an acquittal verdict but a lifelong process of being conformed to the image and likeness of God. We call this Theosis. God is more of a doctor than a judge to us. That said, I don't think God is such a bastard as to throw people in a furnace just for making the wrong choice. I think that everyone can potentially come closer to Him and truly experience Theosis regardless of what their religion or lack of religion might be. Christ did indeed say that He is the only way and the path is narrow. But just as not everyone who visibly belongs to the Church is truly living the life of the Church in Christ, then just maybe the inverse is true and people who are visibly outside of the Church may in fact internally be living a life more in line with the Church in Christ than those who visibly belong to it.
