"Religion in your daily life" thread - Get thee to the BP nunnery

[NoReturn]

Do you veil?
Do you have to avoid doing certain things certain times of the month?
Do you avoid certain foods?
What are some cool things your religion allows you? What are the limitations?

 

[DumbDude43]

not religious but i wish i was

 

[Android raptor]

Not religious though I have no problem with people who are as long as they aren't dicks about it. Unfortunately I live in the Bible belt, so there are a lot of people who use Jesus as an excuse to be pieces of shit.

 

[User names must be unique]

Culturally Anglican Christian, religiously atheist.

I went to a religious school we prayed, we sang hymns and we had visits from the local vicar, religion just wasn't for me.

 

[CoolFool]

Ex-Christian. Idk what you'd call me now, agnostic? I'd say I'm more spiritual than anything else.

I used to be really pissed at religion back when I stopped being a Christian as a teenager, not quite reddit atheist level, but still cringy tbh. As I've gotten older though I'm no longer upset and I've also come to see the benefits of religion (well, some of them anyways). Most of my friends and family are Christians. I still pray from time to time, and I still know a bunch of Bible verses from when I was a kid.

I wish more people were Christian though, this new religion of woke is way more intolerable than the batshit Christians I had to deal with growing up.

 

[NoReturn]

Ex-Christian. Idk what you'd call me now, agnostic? I'd say I'm more spiritual than anything else.

I've always found the Dawkins scale to be useful when people say what you just said:

 

[MrTroll]

I tell every fat chick I see to eat some fucking broccoli, just like the Bible says.

 

[Android raptor]

I've always found the Dawkins scale to be useful when people say what you just said:
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I probably hover around a 4 or 5, I don't know if deities exist and I'm not really worried about it.

I do think religion of any variety has no place in government and theocracies are universally oppressive shitholes (including the most theocratic US states).

I wish more people were Christian though, this new religion of woke is way more intolerable than the batshit Christians I had to deal with growing up.

Let me know when people use woke to justify beating their kids or marrying them off to adult men. Or get arrested for sex pestery at anywhere near the frequency religious sex pests do.

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

Methodist, but the more traditional kind and one without an actual church at the moment, when the dust settles from the split I'll go looking. I do actually play nice with most other religious and non-religious types, depending on how self-righteous/insufferable they are about it. I do a bit of shit posting, it's not always as serious as it seems, I just cut my teeth on Internet Atheists over on Spacebattles.com back in the early aughts.

 

[Sonic]

I incorporate a mixture of Buddhism (purely philosophical and lifestyle) and Catholicism (Born and raised Roman Catholic) into my daily life. I don't care if the "trad cath" larpers have a problem with my being spiritual eclectic so I'll save you fags the typing -- I don't read replies.

I remind myself daily that the first Nobel truth is suffering but that me and God are walking hand-in-hand into the fire. I came to the conclusion recently that karma (cause and consequence), luck, and even that little part of your mind that tells you that everything is going to be alright, even in the worst of circumstances, are how God manifests itself to us. Narrowly missing being killed in a freeway accident or even receiving praise from my boss when I should have my ass handed to me are the small things that remind me that God is all around me.

I live minimalistically because both Buddism and Catholicism preach about humility and living a humble life, as Jesus or Sadartha did. Meditation is another commonality the two share that I am slowly getting into. The feeling of the rosary beads in my hand keeps me grounded as repeating hail Marrys slowly turns my mind off. In my personal opinion, I feel like Buddhism provides more of a framework of how to live than the Bible does which is why I like Incorporating it into my beleif system. It kind of fills in some of the gaps for me, I guess.

 

[Big Miss Steak]

I attend church and a Bible study group weekly, unless I'm sick or family comes in town. I need to be more diligent about reading the Word daily. I do pray throughout the day but I need to get back on a dedicated prayer time in the evening. Raised Prot and currently attending a non-denominational church (yes, I know) so I was never all that into Lent or other Christian traditions but I'd like to explore it.

 

[seri0us]

a lot of people who use Jesus as an excuse to be pieces of shit.

In what ways?

 

[Android raptor]

In what ways?

Everything from beating their kids to legally micromanaging the reproductive organs of girls and women to mandating they be lied to about their own health in public schools.

Also a metric fuckton of sex crimes.

 

[Justa Grata Honoria]

I am not a modern pagan but more like a occultist still haven't found my god. Hoping to find my god once my kid is at least 7-8 . Occult practice is bad around kids.

 

[Android raptor]

I am not a modern pagan but more like a occultist still haven't found my god. Hoping to find my god once my kid is at least 7-8 . Occult practice is bad around kids.

Occult is probably less bad than religious fundamentalism. I know tons of people with fundie parents and they all got beat bare minimum.

So much sex abuse too, that's rarely dealt with properly.

 

[KittyGremlin]

Occult is probably less bad than religious fundamentalism

Das rite. Now, would you kindly stand in the middle of this symbol I've painted with uh... Ketchup? Oh, and be careful with the candles.

 

[Justa Grata Honoria]

Occult is probably less bad than religious fundamentalism. I know tons of people with fundie parents and they all got beat bare minimum.

So much sex abuse too, that's rarely dealt with properly.

Dear lord no, our kid was never hit . We can't even if we wanted to we would have the child services up our asses the minute it happens.

 

[Android raptor]

Das rite. Now, would you kindly stand in the middle of this symbol I've painted with uh... Ketchup? Oh, and be careful with the candles.

I'm all for trying to summon demons

 

[KittyGremlin]

I'm all for trying to summon demons

Yeah, uh, sometimes we summon them, sometimes we gotta return 'em.

 

[Android raptor]

Dear lord no, our kid was never hit . We can't even if we wanted to we would have the child services up our asses the minute it happens.

Unfortunately way too many people seem to think the spare the rod part of the bible=beat your kids any time they're anything other than perfectly obedient, quiet robots. Especially with the influence of shit like To Train Up a Child.

They even hit babies too young to even understand why they're being hit i.e. blanket training.

Im sure the extremes of the other abrahamic religions are just as bad, but decades in the bible belt have taught me just how much fundie Christians love beating their kids and using the Bible to justify it.

CPS typically shits itself and does nothing, if it gets reported at all. All fundie kids get coached on what to say to CPS if they come knocking. That's also part of why they love homeschooling so much, way less opportunity for their kids to be around mandated reporters.

Yeah, uh, sometimes we summon them, sometimes we gotta return 'em.

I already live in Hell, I guess I would be returned to the PNW (sweet)