What Is Your Belief or Non-belief in God?

Cap'n · #17 02-12-2005, 02:47 AM

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Invigor, interesting subtopic, re differing views from parental influences. My parents beliefs are similar to mine, though I am more ambivelant.

My wife, however, comes from a background more like yours. Her entire family for generations have been a deeply religious group, except her. By the time she was 14 she was blocking her door with a chair so she could avoid being dragged along to her parents church. She was just not satisfied with the answers to her numerous questions about what she was being taught. It still does not make sense to her, and because of this there will always be a rift between her and her closest relatives, no matter how much they love and care for one another.

So, though I can't understand from a personal level how that feels, I can easily see why that would be paramount in any discussion of religious and life beliefs.

Which I thoroughly enjoy, BTW! As long as the people involved are mature and understanding enough to know that it is untrue to say someone else is wrong when it comes to such a topic.

Thanks for the thread and the guidelines, Bev. Disappointed I can't vote, however.

View Poll Results: What Is Your Belief or Non-belief in God?
I strongly believe in God and go to my place of worship regularly.	11	22.00%
I strongly believe in my personal view of God, but do not go to a place of worship.	19	38.00%
God must be around somewhere, otherwise where did the universe come from?	4	8.00%
I definitely do not believe in God because I believe science will answer all our questions about where the universe came from.	7	14.00%
I believe God and I believe science will eventually prove God's existence.	2	4.00%
I find it hard to believe in God when so many bad things are happening in the world.	2	4.00%
Believing in God is for weak and fearful people, not for me.	5	10.00%
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