[an excerpt from a reply to another person's post/comment session]

[sinfidel]

* This is about religion, and my views, so.. read it if you want. *

Also, I know I don't usually talk about religion much in my LJ, but... I just wrote it all down, and got to wondering what all y'all's experiences/ thoughts on the subject are?

Please share.

Thank You.

- F.

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....also, I was raised muslim, but I think as we grow up,

Comments

[raptorgirl]

Yeah, I have a similar view on the existence of God. How can there not be something, you know?

Just for the record, I'm Christian and relatively serious about it.

[suspended_dusk]

I respect you and Faria's beliefs.

However, I am pretty damn close to being an Atheist.

You ask "how could there not be something?".

I ask "how could there be something?".

If there is, prove it with something more than a book of stories that have been re-written over and over by possibly corrupted hands.

Besides, I don't see how any loving God, Godess, or other deity could allow such suffering of its supposed creations.

That's just my opinion, though.

[sinfidel]

I can see how you would feel that way. I've thought the same question before myself.

I don't think anything written in any book is the "untainted word of a diety", but at the same time, that doesn't mean that I don't feel something larger than myself that makes sense out there...

KnowwhatImean?

I'm not saying do you AGREE, because you don't have to. I'm asking if you can kinda see what I'm saying, you know?

Hey, respect is key. its ok to think differently. it takes all kinds to make a world. all are valid. nobody knows for sure, right?!

[suspended_dusk]

I understand what you are saying.

I also think that respect is definitely the key, along with tolerance and accepting the fact that people are, or should be, free to believe what they want to.

[suspended_dusk]

Plus, you're right. NOBODY knows for sure.

This is one of many reasons why I think religious war is dumb as fucking hell.

[raptorgirl]

Yeah, similar here. I just have a sense that there's something more to life. I mean, the laws of nature had to come from somewhere, the first bacteria had to come from somewhere, planets have to come from somewhere, etc.