Religious Beliefs

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As a Mormon I would be interested to know if many other Heartlanders follow any religious beliefs?
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I used to attend pagan rituals with my wifes family but I'm no great believer. (My background is from a Baptist/Catholic family but I fell out with Christianity many passing moons ago) :evil:
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I've not been baptized, cause my parents wanted to leave the choice up to me, and now I'd describe myself as agnostic. Although, come to think of it, the parents of a school acquaintance baptized me in a very makeshift way when I was about 8 years old to make sure I was good company for their daughter. So "blessed" water from a plastic bottle purchased at the Vatican (or somewhere similar) was poured over my head and then we all had vanilla custard to celebrate. Does that count?
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Hard atheist in the Richard Dawkins mould here.

Although I do relent to a kind of Spinozan pantheism at times.
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I'm a Jambo, my Temple of Worship is here :wink: :D
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I normally try to follow them from at least 50 yards behind...

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markfiend wrote:Hard atheist in the Richard Dawkins mould here.

Although I do relent to a kind of Spinozan pantheism at times.
did you make that up? or do you need a serious overhaul of your spellchecker? :lol:
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Spinozan pantheism :?: :lol:

it hurts my eyes ust reading that....
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I've been baptized, but I'm a rather atheist, close to the agnostic, but surely anti-clerical.
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Quiff Boy wrote:Spinozan pantheism :?: :lol:
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Was brought up Christian, which failed to work out for obvious reasons.

Militant agnostic now.
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Militant agnostic? How does that work?

"I'm damn sure that I don't know whether there's a god!"

;)

Reminds me of something I read elsewhere:
An atheist is "militant" if they say something that makes people emotionally uncomfortable. A member of a scary religion is "militant" if they blow up buildings and kill people. A member of one of the approved religions is never "militant", even when they ARE blowing up buildings and killing people. (How many U.S. media describe the invasions of Iraq and Lebanon as the work of militant Christians and militant Jews?) Which religions are approved is dependent on the prejudices of local society.
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Don't believe in any organised religion. To many people have died in the name of religion.

I told Mrs Snowey that if she want's to get married it won't be in a church..and I think that me saying it would be nice to get married on the pitch at Prenton Park has put her off for life. :lol:
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Indeed. And it comes with +5 defence against "The God Delusion" and "Pascal's Wager" ;)
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markfiend wrote:Militant agnostic? How does that work?
To quote Mitch Benn:

"I'm what you might call a militant agnostic; Rule 1: I don't know if there's a God; Rule 2: Neither do you" :lol:

Me, I was christened, considered neopaganism, realised it was all one big placebo effect, now happily atheist.
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i just generally recoil in horror. i teach the kids it purely as an understanding culture thing. waaah.
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I believe in me - you can believe whatever you like, but please don't ask me to follow along.
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Eva wrote:I've not been baptized, cause my parents wanted to leave the choice up to me, and now I'd describe myself as agnostic. Although, come to think of it, the parents of a school acquaintance baptized me in a very makeshift way when I was about 8 years old to make sure I was good company for their daughter. So "blessed" water from a plastic bottle purchased at the Vatican (or somewhere similar) was poured over my head and then we all had vanilla custard to celebrate. Does that count?
Thats fantastic- I'd worry about going near Vatican water though as I've heard it burns :innocent: ;D
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i believe in god, but god nor longer believes in me? :D

ahem. sorry.

i was sitting in a catholic church (tis my given religion) at cousin's daughter's first holy communion when my uncle turned to me and swore he could smell sulphur...
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Eva wrote:I've not been baptized, cause my parents wanted to leave the choice up to me, and now I'd describe myself as agnostic. Although, come to think of it, the parents of a school acquaintance baptized me in a very makeshift way when I was about 8 years old to make sure I was good company for their daughter. So "blessed" water from a plastic bottle purchased at the Vatican (or somewhere similar) was poured over my head and then we all had vanilla custard to celebrate. Does that count?
You know that in the view of the Catholic Church that makes you a Catholic?

There was a case back in the 1800s (I think) where a Jewish family had a Catholic child-minder, she "baptised" their baby like that. The priests had the child taken away from her parents because "we can't have a Catholic child brought up by Jewish parents." O_o
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