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View Poll Results: What religion do you follow?
Christianity 38 20.32%
Buddhism 3 1.60%
Hinduism 1 0.53%
Islam 2 1.07%
Judaism 4 2.14%
Wiccanism 1 0.53%
Other established religion (feel free to post about it) 6 3.21%
Self-defined 25 13.37%
Don't follow any religion & don't believe in deities (atheist) 68 36.36%
Not Sure, undecided, don't know or don't care 39 20.86%
Sikhism 0 0%
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Old 02-17-2016, 08:20 PM   #561 (permalink)
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Holy crap, how could I forget The Bible Reloaded
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Old 02-17-2016, 08:21 PM   #562 (permalink)
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Well perhaps the distinction there is practising religion introspectively as in seeing where you might improve or understand your own existence and practising religion proscriptively as a means to judge and control the behaviour of others. The latter form is obviously a lot more obnoxious.
But how is practicing a religion introspectively more true? What if the obnoxiousness is a tenet of that particular religious belief?
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With Christianity you practice your faith through your works.In short dont talk about it, be about it.Which sadly has become a spectator sport.
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With Christianity you practice your faith through your works. In short don't talk about it, be about it. Which sadly has become a spectator sport.
Absolutely nailed it!

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Old 02-17-2016, 10:29 PM   #566 (permalink)
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I practice WDism. I am my own god. Y'all can worship me too if ya want.
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I just wanna post one more thing for tonight, I'll get to the crux of this biscuit very soon

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I agree, Mushroom Man, and suspect that religions when practised truly - be it Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, even meditation in its purest form and unaligned to any religion, are paths leading to the same experience. All paths to God, or Tao, or Oneness, or whatever name you wanna call it. They're all spoons by which we can taste the soup. The thing to remember is that the spoon is not the soup. A spoon is a spoon. The soup is what matters.
Your analogy would work better those religions would be different soups since they all made up of different ingredients.
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