Religion – your views

[PluMGMK]

Well, I'm a non-lapsed Catholic, and my parents have also been known to call me Jesuitical.

Just out of curiosity, do any of your religious beliefs conflict with any of your scientific beliefs? It's not a question I think I've actually asked anyone before

I recall having a conversation along similar lines with one of my fellow Maths students last Christmas (incidentally she's Protestant) and I put it like this: people often speak of seeing the beauty of Creation in animals like cats; I also see it in electron/x-ray diffraction patterns!
As I've stated here before, I don't actually think the world was created in six days, and neither do most other Catholics…

[Ambidextroid]

That's an interesting viewpoint, though I'm curious as to how far your belief in the bible goes. Is there any specific reason why you follow Catholicism over another religion?

The biggest problem I've had understanding the religious viewpoint is why one religion is followed over another, to which the answer usually seems to do with where and when you were raised and the religious beliefs of your parents, which in my mind sort of discredits the belief.

my God is a primordial being with an indefinite form which he decides to use. Maybe he was responsible for creating the Big Bang or the same is the Big Bang itself, this is a simple assumption, like all of us.

But why do you assume your god is that way? Why would it have a conscience or any form at all?
I've never understood the need to personify the cause of the universe when a simple random event seems to make a lot more sense than a conscious being with a humanlike mind deciding to create the universe, at least when taken at face value.

[Lil_DRE]

That's an interesting viewpoint, though I'm curious as to how far your belief in the bible goes. Is there any specific reason why you follow Catholicism over another religion?

The biggest problem I've had understanding the religious viewpoint is why one religion is followed over another, to which the answer usually seems to do with where and when you were raised and the religious beliefs of your parents, which in my mind sort of discredits the belief.

my God is a primordial being with an indefinite form which he decides to use. Maybe he was responsible for creating the Big Bang or the same is the Big Bang itself, this is a simple assumption, like all of us.

But why do you assume your god is that way? Why would it have a conscience or any form at all?
I've never understood the need to personify the cause of the universe when a simple random event seems to make a lot more sense than a conscious being with a humanlike mind deciding to create the universe, at least when taken at face value.

It is a proper opinion is not bad or good, this is my vision, you can have another, but you can not change my own belief.

[Ambidextroid]

I'm not trying to change your vision, I just want to know what lead you to such a belief.

[LoveMetal]

That's an interesting viewpoint, though I'm curious as to how far your belief in the bible goes. Is there any specific reason why you follow Catholicism over another religion?

Are you asking to Plum or to myself? Either way, I suppose that it is because catholicism is the primary religion in France, resp. in Ireland.

[Ambidextroid]

It was for Plum but anyone's answer's good.
I think if someone who's currently Catholic was born in South Asia instead of, say, Ireland or France, they would almost certainly not grow up to be a Catholic. Doesn't that already pose a flaw in most religious belief?

[Harpic fraîcheur]

Religions are cool, unless you are Muslim.

[Steo]

I never quite understood Religion or knew what to think tbh. I was Catholic because everyone else is.

[The Jonster]

I'm a ??

[Harpic fraîcheur]

Gay.

[Steo]

I'm just Steo

[Hunchman801]

I'm a skeltlist.

thank mr skeltal

[Steo]

Oh then I'm gorgeous actually

[The Jonster]

Gay.

Filing this message for future use.

[Hunchman801]

Oh then I'm gorgeous actually

GORGEOUS has to be a skeltist too else his big teeth would have fallen long ago.

[Harpic fraîcheur]

Muslems sux dix

[Steo]

Oh then I'm gorgeous actually

GORGEOUS has to be a skeltist too else his big teeth would have fallen long ago.

Ah that's a good point

[Hunchman801]

Muslems sux dix

That's not very nice of you, Harpic Fifo.

[Steo]

In all seriousness I only go to church for occasions

[The Jonster]

I haven't been to church in awhile.