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

[mandragora2003.livejournal.com]

Having thought about this for.... oh, minutes, I've come to the conclusion that I believe in people. (Yes! They do exist!)

As in; Human nature; humane and otherwise. I think that there are forms of human nature that I prefer, and would hope to emulate myself. I have also somehow retained the happy belief that other people have similar thought processes. By and large, most people try to do what they think is the "right" thing to do. If that impacts on me, I reserve the right to whinge about it; otherwise, I think other people have the right to believe whatever they want to. This probably means that I am insane, or at least deluded.

An awful lot of people chose expediency over altruism.

I cherish a hope that karma/ cosmic balance/ justice has a basis in reality.

I would rather be remembered as a nice person than as a brilliant bastard.

Still, I figure it'll all end up okay in the end, one way or the other.

So possibly my best tag would be "spiritual" rather than "religious". Definitely "optimist". That said, I trend towards Catholicism.

[alias_sqbr]

No they don't! You're all figments of my imagination!!!

*cough* Sorry, didn't mean to assault you with my beliefs there :)

Anyway, thankyou for replying, I was a little fuzzy on what you believed. I do remember the trend to at least the catholic version of the Lords Prayer from school :)