Why are you your Religion?

[Ordya]

it was probably started by the Sun

Forget Sun. Forget Moon. Forget those heathen Gods.

Worship Ass.

a righteous god indeed

[Xathranaar]

I'm not.

In the end you just can't make yourself believe something you don't.

[Reggae Magmia]

Oh shit.

No, thank Jah they're not having that debate here.

it was probably started by the Sun

Forget Sun. Forget Moon. Forget those heathen Gods.

Worship Ass.

I thought that NSG religion died already...

[ImperialistSalvia]

Because religion (to me) makes no sense

[Menassa]

I'll TG you:

Oh shit.

????

[Saor Eireann]

I was baptised and raised Presbyterian, but converted to Catholicism (despite my parents' opposition) because I found great truth in the catechism and realised that the Catholic Church is the one true church and that reception of the Blessed Eucharist is necessary for salvation.

[Ifreann]

I was baptised and raised Presbyterian, but converted to Catholicism (despite my parents' opposition) because I found great truth in the catechism and realised that the Catholic Church is the one true church and that reception of the Blessed Eucharist is necessary for salvation.

Shame it doesn't taste nicer, though.

[Xathranaar]

I was baptised and raised Presbyterian, but converted to Catholicism (despite my parents' opposition) because I found great truth in the catechism and realised that the Catholic Church is the one true church and that reception of the Blessed Eucharist is necessary for salvation.

I'm sure it has nothing to do with nationalist overtones.

[Azurand]

Oh shit.

No, thank Jah they're not having that debate here.

Forget Sun. Forget Moon. Forget those heathen Gods.

Worship Ass.

I thought that NSG religion died already...

Not yet. We shall resurrect the Church of Ass. Previously I haven't participated yet...

Now I shall atone my sin.

[Zanera]

I am choosing to follow Odin because he is able to protect against the giants.

[Ordya]

No, thank Jah they're not having that debate here.


I thought that NSG religion died already...

Not yet. We shall resurrect the Church of Ass. Previously I haven't participated yet...

Now I shall atone my sin.

i do that every night

[Ordya]

I am choosing to follow Odin because he is able to protect against the giants.

nothing can protect you from Shaquille O'Neil

[Ordya]

I was baptised and raised Presbyterian, but converted to Catholicism (despite my parents' opposition) because I found great truth in the catechism and realised that the Catholic Church is the one true church and that reception of the Blessed Eucharist is necessary for salvation.

Jesus saves but Gretzky scores on the rebound. jk

[Turklestan]

This has got to be the calmest and most harmonious religion thread I have ever seen in my life on any forum. Kudos, NationStates.

Anyway, I am an atheist. While being born Anglican (Church of Ireland), I turned away from the church when I realised how little meaning it had for me, how hypocritical it all seemed, how it imposed an authority over me, and how religion makes the universe complicated and confusing while science makes it elegant and progressive. To some extent, I have more recently become very devout in my humanistic atheism, and I have come to see religion as morally wrong. Of course, that's just my opinion.

[Ordya]

This has got to be the calmest and most harmonious religion thread I have ever seen in my life on any forum. Kudos, NationStates.

Anyway, I am an atheist. While being born Anglican (Church of Ireland), I turned away from the church when I realised how little meaning it had for me, how hypocritical it all seemed, how it imposed an authority over me, and how religion makes the universe complicated and confusing while science makes it elegant and progressive. To some extent, I have more recently become very devout in my humanistic atheism, and I have come to see religion as morally wrong. Of course, that's just my opinion.

Why be an atheist if it's only religion you have a problem with?

[Czechanada]

This has got to be the calmest and most harmonious religion thread I have ever seen in my life on any forum. Kudos, NationStates.

You mean, kudos Czechanada.

[Ordya]

This has got to be the calmest and most harmonious religion thread I have ever seen in my life on any forum. Kudos, NationStates.

You mean, kudos Czechanada.

oh no, the Canadians are making everybody peaceful! darn you canadia

[YellowApple]

This has got to be the calmest and most harmonious religion thread I have ever seen in my life on any forum. Kudos, NationStates.

I think that's due in part to the premise of the thread; instead of arguing over *what* we believe in, we're asking ourselves *why* we believe it to begin with.

[Czechanada]

This has got to be the calmest and most harmonious religion thread I have ever seen in my life on any forum. Kudos, NationStates.

I think that's due in part to the premise of the thread; instead of arguing over *what* we believe in, we're asking ourselves *why* we believe it to begin with.

No, I asked "why".

[Azurand]

This has got to be the calmest and most harmonious religion thread I have ever seen in my life on any forum. Kudos, NationStates.

Yeah, that's a bit strange. No one even question why I'm in Islam: one of the reason because it's authoritarian.

Symbol of the Caliphate's Victory in NSG.

[Czechanada]

This has got to be the calmest and most harmonious religion thread I have ever seen in my life on any forum. Kudos, NationStates.

Yeah, that's a bit strange. No one even bother to question why I'm in Islam: one of the reason because it's authoritarian.

Symbol of the Caliphate's Victory in NSG.

Yes, NSG's Caliphate of Secular Humanism has won today.

[Azurand]

Yeah, that's a bit strange. No one even bother to question why I'm in Islam: one of the reason because it's authoritarian.

Symbol of the Caliphate's Victory in NSG.

Yes, NSG's Caliphate of Secular Humanism has won today.

All Hail to Caliph of Secular Humanism, Archdeacon of Anti-Theism, Defender of the Godless, Vanquisher of Religions!

Damn, you're a threat.

[Hallistar]

A lot of religions conflict with my political, moral, and scientific beliefs.

Also, I believe Christopher Hitchens said it best.

"The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more."

- Hitchens, in the Portable Atheist

While I don't really see life on earth as any more beautiful than it was (After i dropped religion), I have to admit...I've honestly felt alot more peaceful/reassured in my life after I stopped being afraid of if I was believing in the right religion, what would happen to me after I died, and trying to ignore whatever evidence seemed to contradict my religion, or otherwise trying to fit it in, so that I wouldn't have to question it.

[Ordya]

How old are you?

[Czechanada]

How old are you?

Who?