Christian or Not Poll

[ForcedTorque]

I have been seeing a lot of no believers lately, and it has me wondering. I am a Christian, but I am not knowledgeable enough to get into a deep conversation on the subject

If you feel like it, post up your answer, and age. It seems to me that my generation has done a very poor job of passing along the word. Most of the non-believers seem to be the young guys, but I could be wrong. I know Mike's opinion, and he's not one of the kids here.

 

[gtsfirefighter]

I have been seeing a lot of no believers lately, and it has me wondering. I am a Christian, but I am not knowledgeable enough to get into a deep conversation on the subject

If you feel like it, post up your answer, and age. It seems to me that my generation has done a very poor job of passing along the word. Most of the non-believers seem to be the young guys, but I could be wrong. I know Mike's opinion, and he's not one of the kids here.

I'm a believer and you already know my age 39

 

[ForcedTorque]

I'm a believer and you already know my age 39

Again!

 

[DsBetterHalf]

I'm sort of in-between...I am not quite Wiccan, but a little more than agnostic, if that makes sense. I'm not firmly into the witchcraft area of Wicca, but I do believe in using natural remedies for most things, instead of prescriptions and over the counter medicines and whatnot. I also believe there is a female aspect to balance out the male influence. Does this make sense to anyone else? LOL.

And I'm 23.

 

[shaggyskadude13]

I'm a believer and I'm 21.

 

[suprakid24]

I just read a book about how Christian missionaries came into an Indian tribe and set up a church and started to convert them, telling them that their gods were basically crap, that they weren't real. Even though the Indians believed strongly in their gods for so long, they started converting, just leaving their old beliefs. That always makes me think, who says the god that the Christians brought to them is real? Just because they say it is and believe in it? Just a different way of thinking I guess.

EDIT: I'm 19

 

[Kai]

26, and although i was forced through a CofE school, i discount any belief in a higher power, in my opinion, in my opinion, religion is all a bunch of horseshit designed to comfort the insecure and ignorant.

 

[suprakid24]

26, and although i was forced through a CofE school, i discount any belief in a higher power, in my opinion, in my opinion, religion is all a bunch of horseshit designed to comfort the insecure and ignorant.

that, and also to use it as a way to right their wrongs, they can do bad stuff and just go to church and *poof* everything is good

 

[mkiiSupraMan18]

I should be dead x 4, someone is watching over me and I know who.

Believer. 23.

 

[Shytheed Dumas]

Believer - 38

 

[TurboFreak]

Believer - 19yrs old.

 

[GotTurbos?]

Negative ghostrider, the pattern is full. 19.

 

[Kai]

I should have died in 1989 and then again in 2004, but it wasnt due to some invisible space fairy looking out for me, it was because of OTHER PEOPLE that i remain alive.

Believing that you've been 'saved' by a higher power is simply delusional and you need therapy, IMHO.

 

[Poodles]

*flame suite on*

Most Christians aren't really Christians...



Believer, 26

 

[foreverpsycotic]

I believe in god, just not everything in the church.

21

 

[bluemkiii]

I absolutly believe in god, i'm 18.

 

[Facime]

I am a spiritual being, but not religious. I have a rather unusual belief system that could be classified somewhere between native american shamanism and zen buddhist.

I do NOT believe in a sentient being that watches over us and I do in fact think that organized religion is at the root of mankinds troubles on this planet.

44

 

[benchwarmer]

Believer, 25. I think the real beef most people have with Christianity, and indeed most forms of organized religion, is that everybody is so caught up in the religion itself they completely forget about the faith. Most "religious" people know absolutely nothing about what they claim to believe in so strongly and that leaves a bad taste in your mouth about religion in general. It makes people with faith look like mindless drones when there are in fact some highly educated people who believe in higher powers.

I major in physics and minor in math. My view of the world is pretty structured and if something doesn't fit within a reasonable reference frame I don't believe it. I believe in God not because my parents told me too or because I'm looking for some kind of comfort but because I find it highly improbable that the universe came to be by itself. Not impossible, mind you, but improbable. That's where faith comes in. If it was an absolute assurance that God must exist there would be no need for faith, would there?

 

[dugums]

28. I checked non-believer, but it's really more of a matter of me not caring whether or not there is a higher being or not.

What am I going to do about it now if indeed there is a higher power? Wouldn't a hypothetical God want us to abide by the conscience and logic he/she/it bestowed on us? Or neglect it based on documents collected over the years that we know have been refactored for the benefit of those writing them? And to listen to religious hierarchies that protect bad men for self-serving interests and condemn our friends at the same time?

Whether or not you believe in God, isn't the real question. I'd like to hear a reasoned explanation of why those who claim to belong to religious groups justify their membership.

 

[emiliorescigno]

Non-Believer here, 20.

I see Religion as a tool for people to get involved in the community and also organize to help those in need, but as for the whole god reigns over the universe thing....I'm too much of a skeptic and scientist to go with it.

I guess I should also interject, Religion is the force that managed to fuck up my family pretty well. My Grandfather, an Orthodox Jew, married my grandmother, a protestant so many years ago. As a result, both families essentially cut the two out of their lives. They continued their own religious practices independently, and when they had kids, never brought them to any religious institution, my mother included, and the tradition continues.