[FORUM] "'Cause I gotta have faith"?
Jun. 21st, 2008 02:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldLacking any interest in adopting as my own any particular religious tradition while being wary of atheism's equally reaching claims--John Grey has a definition of atheism in at least the Western tradition I'm most familiar with as just another Christian heresy ("There is no Trinity, there was no Imaculate Conception, and Jesus did not die on the Cross, oh, and the other religions are wrong, too")--I've been happily agnostic for the past few years. From my perspective, without any clear evidence, why should I bother to make an essentially arbitrary choice?
Other people, including other people reading this, have made different choices. I've always been curious as to why they've done so. Why have they, many of them presumably not starting off from a place very different from mine, come to different conclusions on these matters? Equally as interesting, what journeys have other people who have reached the same conclusions as me made?
Hence this forum. Why did you believe in the particular religious (or non-faith) faith tradition that you do? If you follow a particular religious tradition, why do you do so? If not, why? If you're wavering, why?
Discussion is encouraged on the sole condition that it be polite.
UPDATE (23 June): My apologies for the sloppy and Eurocentric phrasing that I'd included in the first version of this post. My bad.
Other people, including other people reading this, have made different choices. I've always been curious as to why they've done so. Why have they, many of them presumably not starting off from a place very different from mine, come to different conclusions on these matters? Equally as interesting, what journeys have other people who have reached the same conclusions as me made?
Hence this forum. Why did you believe in the particular religious (or non-faith) faith tradition that you do? If you follow a particular religious tradition, why do you do so? If not, why? If you're wavering, why?
Discussion is encouraged on the sole condition that it be polite.
UPDATE (23 June): My apologies for the sloppy and Eurocentric phrasing that I'd included in the first version of this post. My bad.
