Diligent_d

I have my own religion, my own innerspace that I am content with. But I also realize that outside the brackets that surrounds a person on either side, there’s a whole other world out there governed by a set of mathematics we cannot really control. I find a spirituality in that though, in the undetermined mathematics and calculations of life itself.

Writer7

Some people are born with stroger will than others. Some people also think for them selves more than others. You don't chose at any specific age what you are going to believe in. It just depends on who you are.

Seer

My mother’s side of the family:
Both Grandparents are Lutheran but they had Nazi and Jewish parents (they were Germans)
My mother was Lutheran until I convinced her to be otherwise at the age of about 14
My father’s side of the family:
Grandma- Hippy spiritualist
Grandpa- Atheist
My father: completely Agnostic

Myself: Existentialist.
My mother tried to explain Jesus to me when I was little and my dad showed me the complexity of nature by taking me hiking all the time (when I was 6 we hiked 100 miles in one summer). I was Christian for about 5 years of my young childhood. After my dad became disabled due to a brain tumor that was improperly removed by doctors which lead to no brain damage but instead incurable chronic pain, my whole immediate family struggled with depression. For the first five years or so into my father’s chronic pain dilemma, I lost faith in a benevolent god and became Atheist. My atheism became transformed into a curiosity of other religions as a teenager. To make a long story short, I became Pagan for about two years until it developed into Existentialism.

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iTaliAN_ICe

As Oregon said, It is belief in a non-intervening, indifferent god. It isn't religion because, like atheism, it's a non-theistic philosophy rather than an organized theistic belief system. Thomas Jefferson and some other founding fathers are notable examples of deists.

Kazikli Bey

A deists' belief is kind of like this:

God is a painter, he paints a work, admires it for a while, then moves on, he doesn't change the picture or touch it up, he leaves it as it is.

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zerochill

i am athiest and always have been. my mother brought me to church until i was about 12 and i was baptised but i could never worship something. i believe in 'never surender only retreat' and worshiping seems like giving up. that is the only thing i dont get about religios people, how can they worship something.

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kjhworld

I did tasted of many religious because of curious.
When I was young, alone I went to church.
My family didn't have any religions.
Near my house, many children did not have any special religious.
In the mountain, I saw the shamanist come to prey & play the cermony.
When I was youth, I started visit to temple of Bouda, I did pratices their mess. And then, I came to catholic to study religion.
By the way, my cousin had the taoism, and we discussed in many times.
I liked the Taoism cause very mystic carcters like concept of+ - , bright & night, sun & moon, man & woman...
And also, I had the friends of moslem, and Jews too.
So, we discussed sometimes to saying a lot.
Sure, when I was a universty student, I met a girl Indian.
And I had curious of meditation of Hindou!
And I found very strange new religion of asian too.(Zeungsando)
Sereval differents styles of evangelists also.
Same time, I did read many books of Nitze and the other philos.

Realy, I wanted meet the God, I had the so many questions of life & the true, always I was in achs of non believes.
But, now?
Guess it!

kateri0080

I am an agnostic evolutionist. I was not raised to be, in fact, my parents are some of the most catholic peoples there are. I am not sure if I believe in a God, but Im sure that that there is some higher power. I believe in life after death, as well as reincarnation. I try to piece together the bible and evolution. If some pieces fit together, and make a perfect circle where all evidence is connected to each other, than I am ablet o believe it. Take Noah's ark for example, there is evidence to show the great flood happened, and scientists have pin pointed where the ark is, therefore i believe that Noah actually existed. I need evidence to grasp hold of my beliefs.