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"All Energy Flows According To The Whims Of The Great Magnet"- HST
Personally I'm not religious anymore, 15 years of catholic school killed that for me. But, strangely, I love theology. So, inforoosters, who is your great magnet?
but seriously - I was raised Lutheran and Catholic (mom is Lutheran and Dad is Catholic) I chose Lutheran and now my mom has converted to Episcopalian (after being a Lutheran for almost 70 years)
raised catholic. catholic grade school and all male catholic high school. hell, i was even an altar boy.
somewhere in the middle of all that, probably around 13 or 14, maybe younger, i decided it was all just stories people made up and it didn't benefit my life.
so that leaves me a happy athiest. but agree, religion is a fascinating topic...
Graduated in 2004 with a degree in pastoral ministries.
I went to Bonnaroo 2006 in the church van. When we got to the gate and they asked us if we had any glass, they took a look at the "Christ Jesus Community Church" logo on the side and said..uhhhh I think you guys are ok.
Graduated in 2004 with a degree in pastoral ministries.
I went to Bonnaroo 2006 in the church van. When we got to the gate and they asked us if we had any glass, they took a look at the "Christ Jesus Community Church" logo on the side and said..uhhhh I think you guys are ok.
Raised & confirmed Methodist. Atheist through most of junior high and high school, except for that pseudo-Buddhist phase at 15-16. Tripped into agnosticism freshman year of college. Now probably a non-practicing Unitarian Universalist, technically. Though I list "Flaming Lips" when prompted to state a religion on my Facebook profile.
Post by inertiaticc on Apr 2, 2008 13:51:37 GMT -5
I was born and raised in Catholicism. Went to Catholic school until 10th grade. For some reason people think Catholic school teaches you about righteousness, but the people I went to school with were worse than any other Catholic I've ever met. After that, converted to New Testament Christian... but now.. I'm just whatever. That's the only way to explain it.
Good to see I'm not the only former Methodist out there. My hometown's Methodist church essentially ejected me and I shall cherish that letter always. Who wants to share a congregation with the president, anyway?
Good to see I'm not the only former Methodist out there. My hometown's Methodist church essentially ejected me and I shall cherish that letter always. Who wants to share a congregation with the president, anyway?
Good to see I'm not the only former Methodist out there. My hometown's Methodist church essentially ejected me and I shall cherish that letter always. Who wants to share a congregation with the president, anyway?
Might I ask why?
Through no fault of my own, really.
When I was in high school, tempers flared between Grandpa (who in hindsight was most likely in the early stages of Alzheimer's) and one of the Sunday school teachers over an incident where he yelled at one of her kids over something - I forget what exactly. My family wound up switching churches while I was off at college. About four years later my sister got confirmed at that church.
We all got letters from Christ United Methodist Church saying that they were purging their member rolls, as was customary after two years of inactivity. This was four years after my family stopped going, and totally just in retaliation my sister's confirmation elsewhere.
Still, I like having a letter officially kicking me out of a church for whatever reason.
^^^^sounds similar to what cause me to leave my church and my mother to convert - but I am still Lutheran - baptized in married 2 x and all three kids baptized there but I won't set foot in that particular church again -
Still - I have no major issues with my religion - just that particular church
probably a non-practicing Unitarian Universalist, technically.
I'm a non-practicing Unitarian Universalist, too!
I was raised a UU - my mom was various Protestant - Methodist, Christian Science (no, not Scientology) and my dad a culture-only Jew. Neither were happy with their religions but wanted to raise alieblue and me with religion so they found it in the phone book. If you know anything about UUism, you'll find that this is very apt. ;D
But as an adult, I haven't found a UU church that fits me or that gives me the sort of spiritualness and sense of community that I'd like so I haven't been in a couple years. Kind of a bummer because I really like the concept and feel that the beliefs line up with what I believe about the world at large - or give me the room to believe what I believe.
Post by purplefuzzystuff on Apr 2, 2008 14:19:04 GMT -5
I don't claim to be any specific denomination but I am very spiritual. My beliefs mostly pull from buddhism and hinduism, but I can find relevance and beauty in most religions.....I'm actually in grad school now to become a hospice chaplain and I am already anticipating grief from my clients over my lack of a specific denomination
Post by sparklybecca on Apr 2, 2008 14:20:23 GMT -5
dcbee said:
kdogg said:
probably a non-practicing Unitarian Universalist, technically.
I'm a non-practicing Unitarian Universalist, too!
I was raised a UU - my mom was various Protestant - Methodist, Christian Science (no, not Scientology) and my dad a culture-only Jew. Neither were happy with their religions but wanted to raise alieblue and me with religion so they found it in the phone book. If you know anything about UUism, you'll find that this is very apt. ;D
But as an adult, I haven't found a UU church that fits me or that gives me the sort of spiritualness and sense of community that I'd like so I haven't been in a couple years. Kind of a bummer because I really like the concept and feel that the beliefs line up with what I believe about the world at large - or give me the room to believe what I believe.
ha! there was a UU church up the street from where i lived and when my temple was being renovated they allowed us to use the church for our Jewish services!!
The central belief is that there is an invisible and undetectable Flying Spaghetti Monster, which created the entire universe "after drinking heavily. The Monster's intoxication was supposedly the cause for a flawed earth. All evidence for evolution was planted by the Flying Spaghetti Monster, in an effort to test Pastafarians' faith — a form of the Omphalos hypothesis. When scientific measurements, such as radiocarbon dating, are made, the Flying Spaghetti Monster "is there changing the results with His Noodly Appendage."
The Pastafarian belief of heaven stresses that it contains beer volcanoes and a stripper factory. Hell is similar, except that the beer is stale, and the strippers have VD.
but seriously - I was raised Lutheran and Catholic (mom is Lutheran and Dad is Catholic) I chose Lutheran and now my mom has converted to Episcopalian (after being a Lutheran for almost 70 years)
but I am still Lutheran
What what! Lutherans REPRESENT! haha.
Actually, I was born and raised baptist, and was baptized in a hardcore SBC church. I hated it honestly -- all the sermons were hellfire and brimstone and EXTREMELY political -- not very Christ-centered at all. I even got told when I was 7 years old that I was going to hell because I listened to "rock music". We eventually got really fed up with it and left.
I bounced around from methodist to agnostic to wicca (haha yeah that was a fun 2 week experiment when I was 13)...and eventually, when I was 16, started attending a Lutheran church with my boyfriend at the time. I really liked their sermons and their messages, and honestly I liked all the ceremonial stuff too. So I was confirmed in the Lutheran church when I was 17. I still consider myself Lutheran, although I'm pretty lapsed...I don't really attend church anywhere since I've moved, although I go with my parents to a methodist church occaisionally.
Ultimately though, I believe that the most important thing is that God is love. I think a lot of churches lose sight of that sometimes.
