The altfriday5 got religion!
1. Do you consider yourself religious? Spiritual? Neither? Something else? What do those words mean to you?
2. How would you describe your system of beliefs about the world? Does a commonly used term (Muslim, humanist, Pagan, agnostic) fit comfortably for you or have you had to develop your own way of thinking about and describing this?
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2. How would you describe your system of beliefs about the world? Does a commonly used term (Muslim, humanist, Pagan, agnostic) fit comfortably for you or have you had to develop your own way of thinking about and describing this?
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I tell people I'm religious but not spiritual. But of course that's not true, I'm both. By "religious" I mean connected to others with similar faith by an institution. I'm religious because I believe that spirituality is about groups of people, not about individuals.
2. How would you describe your system of beliefs about the world? Does a commonly used term (Muslim, humanist, Pagan, agnostic) fit comfortably for you or have you had to develop your own way of thinking about and describing this?
Well, I'm unabashadly Christian. Unfortunately some others have taken this word and turned it into something quite unrecognizable, and unchristian. But I choose to hang on to it in hopes it'll get fixed.
3. Were you raised in a family that participated in a religious tradition? Either way, how do you feel about that? If you were raised in a particular tradition, what's your relationship to that tradition now?I was raised in a ( ... )
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Just what is the difference exactly between religious and spiritual? For me, if you're religious, you're also spiritual. I am religious.
2. How would you describe your system of beliefs about the world? Does a commonly used term (Muslim, humanist, Pagan, agnostic) fit comfortably for you or have you had to develop your own way of thinking about and describing this?
Catholic
3. Were you raised in a family that participated in a religious tradition? Either way, how do you feel about that? If you were raised in a particular tradition, what's your relationship to that tradition now?
Yes, my family's Catholic too. I'm thankful for that and I have a greater self-identification to my religious heritage.
4. What factors have influenced your decision to affiliate -- or not -- with an organized religious tradition?While I was born into a Catholic family, I left the church and loahted all things having to do with religion ( ... )
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