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What is your religion?
opinionista:
I was born and raised within a Catholic culture (I'm hispanic), but my religious education was quite a mess. On one hand, my Dad is atheist. He says he only believes in anything he can see, smell, hear or touch. On the other my mother, who grew up baptist, doesn't quite believe in God but thinks we all have a spiritual side.
Then, there were my grandparents. My grandpa (my dad's father) was a staunch God believer, but hated the Church and the priests to death. He said his relationship with God was a private matter and the Church had no business in it. He thought priests were a bunch of thieves and the Pope was a mafia boss. My Grandma, however, was an avid church goer and was always blaming it on the devil for anything negative or bad that would happen to her.
My other grandparents (my mom's parents) were a baptist and Church goers. They did everything in their power to get me and my siblings to at least get in the habit of going to Church every Sunday, but failed miserably.
Then, to make things even more confusing, I went to Catholic school. Don't ask me why. But I had a happy childhood, which, in my opinion, is what really matters.
I guess I'm atheist.
isabelle:
Hey, I thought this might be the right place for it.
Now BEAR with me if this is totally KNOWN and has been since the birth of the human race round your end! It is not known here (an American friend gave me this):
Religious views of life:
Taoism: Shit happens
Confucianism: Confucius says, shit happens
Buddhism: If shit happens, it isn't really shit
Zen: What is the sound of shit happening?
Hinduism: This shit happened before
Islam: If shit happens, it is the will of Allah
Protestantism: Let shit happen to someone else
Catholicism: If shit happens, you deserve it
Judaïsm: Why does this shit always happen to us?
Atheism: I don't believe this shit
Agnosticism: Is this shit for real?
FuzzyChanny:
--- Quote from: isabelle on April 26, 2006, 02:59:36 pm ---Hey, I thought this might be the right place for it.
Now BEAR with me if this is totally KNOWN and has been since the birth of the human race round your end! It is not known here (an American friend gave me this):
Religious views of life:
Taoism: Shit happens
Confucianism: Confucius says, shit happens
Buddhism: If shit happens, it isn't really shit
Zen: What is the sound of shit happening?
Hinduism: This shit happened before
Islam: If shit happens, it is the will of Allah
Protestantism: Let shit happen to someone else
Catholicism: If shit happens, you deserve it
Judaïsm: Why does this shit always happen to us?
Atheism: I don't believe this shit
Agnosticism: Is this shit for real?
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My friend has a shirt with those on, but it has a few more that I can't remember. I just remember the last one is:
Rastafarian: Let's smoke this shit!
isabelle:
Hahaha, that's a good one fuzzy, I'll write it down to add to my list.
Shuggy:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on April 23, 2006, 06:38:23 pm --- She thought the B'hai B'hai were pretty good, but apparently they were only pro-women on paper and not in actual practice.
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Baha'i (only once) are a sect of Islam, founded in the 19th c. Islam considers them heretical because they have prophets after Mohammed, so they have been badly persecuted. Baha'is I have known, both women, were very good people. Baha'i say the role of women is co-equal with that of men, but whether that works out to full equality in practice I don't know.
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