A change from politics...

[sqbr]

I've been pondering doing one of these for a while, but wasn't sure I'd get the wording right. Since it worked so well on his lj, I've decided to completely steal the language of angriest's recent post instead(*).

1. Tell me your religious beliefs. It can be as simple as "I am an X" or it can be a lengthy paragraph if you like. If you feel your religious and/or spiritual beliefs are private, either don't reply or leave a note saying as much.
2. If you want to reply to something someone else has written, feel free - particularly if you want to ask them a question about the religion you've always wanted to ask but have never been able to, or felt comfortable enough to.
3. This is one of the biggies: if someone asks you a question and you don't feel comfortable answering it, do not feel obliged to answer. Either don't reply at all, or drop a quick reply saying "I don't really want to answer that".
4. Religious intolerance will not be tolerated. I'm aiming this particularly at the aggressive atheists who seem to get their kicks scoring points, but the rule applies in any direction.

I know a lot of you are on both flists, I decided to do it now while it's still fresh in your heads. You are quite welcome to repeat/post a link to your comment over there! And yes fred_mouse I know you were also planning on stealing his idea, but, well, there's no reason it can't be stolen multiple times :D

(*)And yes, I checked it was ok. Don't want to be sued for copyright violation by the big mean famous writer :)

Comments

[elaran.livejournal.com]

I have been going through an 'I don't believe there is a God' phase for the past few years. But when it came down to it, if someone asked what religion I was, I would say Hindu because, well. It's a cultural thing? I dunno, currently I just avoid thinking much about religion and where I stand on it [for me - don't really care about anyone else cos I do believe that religion&faith is something that's between you and whatever deity you believe in and if you don't believe, no skin off my back but no one gets to tell me that what I believe or don't believe in terms of religion is wrong or that doing so makes me a lesser person].

I agree with lauredhel about separation of Church and State.

I kinda posted about religion before. (http://elaran.livejournal.com/350067.html)

[alias_sqbr]

Mm, yes, I think we discussed this on my last post about religion (I decided I needed another one since the only people to reply to that one were at least kind of atheist which I assumed wasn't entirely representative :))