Karl Marx said "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." I have been saying for a while "Faith is about a personal belief in the divine. Religion is about control of the people."
Personally, I'm agnostic. An agnostic does not deny the existence of God and heaven but holds that one cannot know for certain whether or not they exist.
Specifically, I believe there is the divine - higher power, divine force, creator, universal consciousness, whatever - but I feel that there is no knowing what its true form is until we die and find out.
Each person has their own revelation (their 'conversion') and that is how they relate to the divine, but that is individual faith. I haven't had such an experience, so I just refer to whatever the divine is as "the divine" or "the dude". I call it dude-ism.
I am christened Church of England, am also confirmed. But I don't attend church. I believe and have my own inner faith I guess, but I don't prescribe to anything formal. I guess I'm much like you. What I believe and how I worship is very personal, it's not something I am about to force on other people or beat my chest about.
i envy those that can find something to believe in because i don't believe in anything.
i agree that it should be personal. i don't understand being told what to do (above and beyond the laws of society) and if i don't do those things, then i'll spend eternity in a nasty place.
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Karl Marx said "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." I have been saying for a while "Faith is about a personal belief in the divine. Religion is about control of the people."
Personally, I'm agnostic. An agnostic does not deny the existence of God and heaven but holds that one cannot know for certain whether or not they exist.
Specifically, I believe there is the divine - higher power, divine force, creator, universal consciousness, whatever - but I feel that there is no knowing what its true form is until we die and find out.
Each person has their own revelation (their 'conversion') and that is how they relate to the divine, but that is individual faith. I haven't had such an experience, so I just refer to whatever the divine is as "the divine" or "the dude". I call it dude-ism.
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i agree that it should be personal. i don't understand being told what to do (above and beyond the laws of society) and if i don't do those things, then i'll spend eternity in a nasty place.
i guess i just never really got it.
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