Atheists....

[talonr]

My systems seem to be back to normal, now. Still not sure what happened. I would have guessed something like 'stomach flu' or... well, -anything-, but when you only have one single symptom it's just... confusing

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[silver_seren]

Heh, I like my version of belief best, of course. I'm non-denominational. Though I wouldn't go so far as to call myself a non-denominational Christian. My beliefs run more toward Eastern religious philosophy, such as the saying that there is only one God, but he shows different faces to different people, which is why there are different interpretations of him.

So, if you have one religion fighting another one, in my opinion, you have essentially two groups who believe in the same thing fighting. The only difference in their beliefs is in what way they think people should be controlled and what they should be doing.

That's pretty much it. The differences between religions is basically how each religion feels that everyone should be doing what it says and specifically what it wants people to be doing.

Thus, i'm non-denominational. I believe in God, I just believe in one that is actually nice and doesn't care if you believe in him or not, it only matters if you live a good life with respect for other people and try to make the world a better place for the people around you.

[talonr]

My views are quite similar. And I find what you said amusing because I have a Christian friend who once asked me "Do you believe that it's possible that God just shows up differently to different people, and that's why there are so many versions? Because I just think that makes sense..."

[silver_seren]

Yeah, it's one of the bases of Hinduism. Basically, they believe that, even though they are a pantheistic religion, all of their gods and the rest of the gods other people believe in are Shiva. It's just that Shiva is like one of those multi-faced statues and different people see a different face, but they are all the same god. It's a bit more complicated than that though and, really, instead of Shiva, since Shiva is also a face, they just call the one god the Universal God. It has no real name.