What religion do you follow?

[Professor X]

I am agnostic but I wouldn't exactly call it a religion even though it is defined as one. I do not disbelieve nor do I believe in a God as such. However i do believe that there is much more out there than just physical matter...

[Ikeni]

I take what i want out of diffrent religions and form my own opinion.

Well it's just like the tooth fairy to be honest, simply given a few mysterious elements and the label of a "religion" and then somehow it's justified. Things don't come true just because you believe in them, and with that and the fact that there is no solid evidence supporting religion (of which a number of things have been disproven, for example the Roman god of the sun Sol Invictus, though we know now that the sun isn't a God) and therefore I feel no inclination to believe in some kind of religion.

[Conrad_Jalowski]

Well, the concept of Sol Invictus was adopted by the Roman armies from the Neo-Persians or the Sassanians and their god Mithras. The worship of Sol Invictus reached its height during the reign of the Roman Emperor Aurelian [270-275 CE] during his reunification of the Roman Empire from the two secessionist kingdoms or the two usurper empires of Queen Zenobia of the Palmyrene Kingdom and the Gallic Empire under Tetricus I and his son Tetricus II.

The Sun-God would have been known to the Romans as Phoebus [The Radiant One] or Helios as alternate names of Apollo who was the god of civilization/culture, reason, the light and music who in Ancient Greek mythology replaced the titan Helios Hyperion in the Titanomachia.

[SunTzu123]

what do you call yourself then? a christibuddashintojew ?

thats exactly it.

Well it's just like the tooth fairy to be honest, simply given a few mysterious elements and the label of a "religion" and then somehow it's justified. Things don't come true just because you believe in them, and with that and the fact that there is no solid evidence supporting religion (of which a number of things have been disproven, for example the Roman god of the sun Sol Invictus, though we know now that the sun isn't a God) and therefore I feel no inclination to believe in some kind of religion.

truth is something you can verify you cant verify the existence of vishnu or God. I take the teachings of several religions. I believe in Reincarnation the concept just makes sense to me. I am not asking any one else to believe in what i believe. I have faith that the code i live by is truth. I believe all path ways will eventually lead to paradise whatever that may be. Faith isnt something that can be verified or proved.

[BrotherhoodUK]

I'm an atheist, though "lack of belief" doesn't really constitute its own religion. I've yet to find convincing evidence validating any kind of religion.

I second that opinion. but I also have my own.

I believe that religion is something invented by man to comfort himself from the fear of the unknown. For example, let's take death. Most religions have life after death. Why? Is it that there truly IS an afterlife, or is it that humanity is scared of death? Is it that we want to continue living, even after we have died? Is it that we want to watch the world go by and look at what happens?

But is that really a good thing? Reincarnation is a cycle of life and death, but wouldn't it eventually get tiresome of continually being reborn? Or, if there is a Heaven, wouldn't it be frustrating to watch the world sink into chaos and knowing that you can do nothing?

There are many.... dilemmas facing religious beliefs, in my eyes.

This is my opinion on religion.

I do know a guy who's a Zoroastrian. He's cool.

[Bree Fletcher]

Here, I don't want to post it again, but I have a point to make about religion on the "A Koran is Fine Too" thread: http://bbs.evony.com/showthread.php?t=140043

[LaoOmologo]

I am an atheist, but I have some passion for polytheical religions. (Those the Christians ruined... like the Hellenic Mythos and Northern Mythos.)

[SunTzu123]

I am an atheist, but I have some passion for polytheical religions. (Those the Christians ruined... like the Hellenic Mythos and Northern Mythos.)

they are still alive under the neopaganism movement

[Bree Fletcher]

Hm... Thought: are we getting a biased sample here? i.e, Are we getting mostly atheists/agnostics because those are the kind of people most likely to go on these forums and join these discussions?

Or maybe younger people are more likely to be atheist/agnostic, and we have more younger people here?

[LaoOmologo]

I believe that religion is something invented by man to comfort himself from the fear of the unknown. For example, let's take death. Most religions have life after death. Why? Is it that there truly IS an afterlife, or is it that humanity is scared of death? Is it that we want to continue living, even after we have died? Is it that we want to watch the world go by and look at what happens?

What I believe Religion is, is a primitive form of a court. A Thing that could see every crime, a thing that could JUDGE the people. Let me take a Medieval example, Joan D'Arc. She was put on fire because they belived she was a witch, and because she was crazy (Or something related to that.). And they said that witchery was forbidden, by the Holy Lord, God himself. They came to her, and said: "God has seen thy foul deeds, and by his Holy Name, you are sentenced to death."