Question: Hi, Do any of you believe in christianity or any religion?
Keywords: christianity, god, religion
By BRIDGE8 under license from Mangorolla CIC 2024
Keywords: christianity, god, religion
By BRIDGE8 under license from Mangorolla CIC 2024
Hi @sthatch1. I am understanding and open to the fact that there are religions, etc. that people believe in and follow their way of life. I don’t force people to have the beliefs that I have and I don’t judge or condemn the beliefs of others. Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs. For me, though, there is no “higher power”. Just my opinion though……
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Hi sthatch1,
No, I don’t believe in Christianity, Jainism, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Taoism, Sikhism, or any of the polytheisms to name just a couple religions. Similarly I don’t believe in any of the 3000 gods such as Thor, Zeus, Amen-Ra, Yahweh, Allah, or Malinalxochitl (who happens to be the Aztec goddess of snakes).
But I have always been very interested in myths, superstitions, religions, cultural stories, and spiritual traditions as they tell us a lot about ourselves. Some of the stories that go along with the many religions can tell us about the cultures that practiced them.
So no, I don’t follow any religion.
But some friends, who are scientists, do believe in different religions, for example one is a Hindu and another is a Pagan. I am similar to Chris in that people are welcome to believe what they like.
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Hi sthatch1,
My answer is a bit different to what everyone else has said.
I am religious and my religion is Hinduism (like one of Dustin’s friends). I respect other religions, and I also respect that there are people who are not religious/not spiritual/do not believe in God or a higher power. Like the others, I also feel that people are entitled to their beliefs and I think we should all respect that. I also think it is important for everyone to have faith in something, whether that is religion or something else. I too find it interesting learning about different mythologies and traditions etc, and seeing how similar a lot of them actually are across different religions/belief systems. There are actually some scientific theories that are mentioned in Hinduism (like the theory of multiple universes), so I also find this kind of similarity between science and religions quite interesting. If people ask me about my religion then I’ll tell them about it, but otherwise I don’t go around talking about it all the time for no reason. For me, my religion simply means a way of life – for example, there are certain festivals/occasions that we celebrate, there are certain things that we are not allowed to eat, and wedding ceremonies happen in certain ways. Its just a normal part of my life that I have grown up with, and it doesn’t affect my work as a scientist or the way I interact with other people.
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I have no belief in a creator or a God that determines our fate or judges us in order to categorise us in an afterlife. Even though I can’t explain how or why the Universe exists, I don’t see the need to invoke a creator – it is a dead-end explanation to me. Better to keep asking questions and striving for deeper understanding, even though science may end up incapable of answering such questions. Over history and in our communities today, religion has been used for great good but also caused great suffering. Many people who are motivated by religion are wonderful people and do great things for others. I just think that you don’t necessarily need religion to be motivated in that way. If there is a God and I do get judged, I’d like to think that the God had some respect for my point of view and my choice in what I believe or don’t believe. There was an attempt to bring me up a Catholic, but that was doomed to failure very early on when I would not stop asking awkward questions of the Sunday School teacher.
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I am not religious. Having said that I do not believe religion is a bad ting and it can be of enormous importance to people who do have faith. I have a policy of not openly questioning someones religion unless they question my atheism.
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