What is your religion (Or lack of religion)?

[The Rich Port]

Haters gonna hate... The sun.
We lived by the sun, we're probably gonna die by the sun.
UV RYDERS ROLL BRIGHT, BITCHES

*looks at sun after being inside for a long time* AAAARGH! I HAVE TOO MANY PHOTONS IN MY EYES!

BEHOLD THE MIGHTY WRATH OF OUR OVERLORD.

SOL, THE ONLY GOD WHO EXPLICITLY PUNISHES ARROGANCE AND STUPIDITY.

[Conscentia]

No. Dust isn't an organism.

How about you just take myths to be what they are: myths?
Many cultures are aware that their mythologies are myths, that their legends are legends, that their sacred stories are stories. Their myths themselves are intended and used as teaching stories that guide individual behaviour in ways that support the individual and the community, not as metaphysical speculation.
Why can't you just use thy myths like such cultures do?

There are in Single-celled organisms inside a clump of dirt?

Those organisms are not considered the dirt. They live on & within the dirt.

[Normandywe]

We're speaking about God, as Paul created him, and it would be best if you didn't resolve to some ambiguous, non-Biblical god of your own imagination.
Those who authored the gospels and developed the Bible into its current form did not hold these beliefs; anything conforming the Bible to modern science is simply an admission to the ever-receding ignorance incident to theology.

That's not true at all:

1) I was not discussing Paul or anything about the Gospels, they are as meaningless Biblically to me as Harry Potter is.
2) God gave humans understanding, and it is in our capacity to understand the way he has created us.

You weren't discussing Paul nor the gospels because you're not even speaking about Christianity, this much is clear.

No. Dust isn't an organism.

How about you just take myths to be what they are: myths?
Many cultures are aware that their mythologies are myths, that their legends are legends, that their sacred stories are stories. Their myths themselves are intended and used as teaching stories that guide individual behaviour in ways that support the individual and the community, not as metaphysical speculation.
Why can't you just use thy myths like such cultures do?

There are in Single-celled organisms inside a clump of dirt?

Are you purposely being foolish? What does that have to do with anything?

[Menassa]

There are in Single-celled organisms inside a clump of dirt?

Those organisms are not considered the dirt. They live on & within the dirt.

"From The Dust of the Earth"
He used the particles in the Dust... on the Earth..

[Menassa]

That's not true at all:

1) I was not discussing Paul or anything about the Gospels, they are as meaningless Biblically to me as Harry Potter is.
2) God gave humans understanding, and it is in our capacity to understand the way he has created us.

You weren't discussing Paul nor the gospels because you're not even speaking about Christianity, this much is clear.

There we go....

[The Rich Port]

There are in Single-celled organisms inside a clump of dirt?

Those organisms are not considered the dirt. They live on & within the dirt.

Indeed.

Dirt is just dead skin cells that fell off of you.

Also, YES, SOL GIVES PEOPLE SKIN CANCER FOR HE ALSO EXPLICITLY PUNISHES VANITY.

KNEEL BEFORE SOL.

[Normandywe]

You weren't discussing Paul nor the gospels because you're not even speaking about Christianity, this much is clear.

There we go....

I now understand now why Darwin thought religion to be nothing more than a primitive defense mechanism, for people of your logic must have troubled him as well.

[Genivaria]

Cite for me, if you can, the part of the creation myth that allows for evolution. All I can seem to find is the ever-contradictory passages about animals being pulled from air, and something about a couple named Adam and Eve.

God made Adam from the "Dust of the Earth."

Could this not be single-celled organisms?

Because he's a buffoon.

Yaweh or the Poster?

Yaweh.

[Divair]

No one saw this coming.

[Yestonia (Ancient)]

I was raised Catholic, but today I identify as a Deist.

[Menassa]

There we go....

I now understand now why Darwin thought religion to be nothing more than a primitive defense mechanism, for people of your logic must have troubled him as well.

Thank you... I think....

[Shofercia]

Russian Orthodox Christian

[Normandywe]

Russian Orthodox Christian

The Soviets wept a single, unified tear.

[Shofercia]

Russian Orthodox Christian

The Soviets wept a single, unified tear.

I was Baptized in the USSR, I think illegally, and there was water, but I'm not sure about tears

[Dires]

lol more Buddhists than Hindus

[Normandywe]

The Soviets wept a single, unified tear.

I was Baptized in the USSR, I think illegally, and there was water, but I'm not sure about tears

It had to be illegally, because the USSR had state atheism and considered all religious individuals to be uneducated sub-humans.

[Chinese Regions]

Secular Humanist Agonistic Atheist

[Primo Victoria]

Asatruar checking in.

[Conscentia]

I was Baptized in the USSR, I think illegally, and there was water, but I'm not sure about tears

It had to be illegally, because the USSR had state atheism and considered all religious individuals to be uneducated sub-humans.

The USSR never outlawed religion, though it did pursue anti-religious policies.
Was baptism actually illegal?

[Shofercia]

I was Baptized in the USSR, I think illegally, and there was water, but I'm not sure about tears

It had to be illegally, because the USSR had state atheism and considered all religious individuals to be uneducated sub-humans.

Which perfectly explains why they mass-published Leo Tolstoy, oh wai-

Would you like to embarrass yourself further? USSR Government believed that religion is "Opium of the Masses", but they didn't think that religious people were sub-humans, or uneducated. They viewed, rather incorrectly, religion as opium, and viewed religious people as addicts; but one can be an addict, and be an educated human being, like the fictional Dr. Gregory House. Also, Praying was allowed in the Red Army during WWII.

[Yestonia (Ancient)]

The Soviets wept a single, unified tear.

I was Baptized in the USSR, I think illegally, and there was water, but I'm not sure about tears

It was not illegal to be Orthodox in the former Soviet Union, but the Orthodox Church was effectively controlled by the Communist Party until Glasnost.

[Shofercia]

It had to be illegally, because the USSR had state atheism and considered all religious individuals to be uneducated sub-humans.

The USSR never outlawed religion, though it did pursue anti-religious policies.
Was baptism actually illegal?

Yeah, but it was kind of illegal, like driving 80 MPH on the freeway in the US

Officially illegal, unofficially, few actually cared

[Vietnam]

Agnostic-atheist, although I honestly find being one boring and stuff.

[Yammata]

I am an Asatru (Norse Heathen) so Odin, Thor, Frey, Tyr, etc.... (and yes most of us prefer to be called heathen not pagan)

[Normandywe]

It had to be illegally, because the USSR had state atheism and considered all religious individuals to be uneducated sub-humans.

Which perfectly explains why they mass-published Leo Tolstoy, oh wai-

Would you like to embarrass yourself further? USSR Government believed that religion is "Opium of the Masses", but they didn't think that religious people were sub-humans, or uneducated. They viewed, rather incorrectly, religion as opium, and viewed religious people as addicts; but one can be an addict, and be an educated human being, like the fictional Dr. Gregory House. Also, Praying was allowed in the Red Army during WWII.

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I encourage you to read more about religion in the Soviet Union, because you're as assertive as you are foolish. This can start you off, I hope:
Sakwa, Richard (2008), Putin: Russia’s choice (2nd ed.), Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, ISBN 0-203-93193-9
http://books.google.com/books?id=R0PrjC ... &q&f=false

Also, your entire section about religion being opium is misguided. Karl Marx once wrote in an unpublished diary entry that religion is an opium, among many other things--nothing more.
I've researched Karl Marx and the USSR extensively; to me, it's clear you must have received them only by word-of-mouth.
Additionally, there were re-education programs intended primarily for religious people. Clearly, as you would have it, this means nothing about how the USSR felt about the education of pious individuals.