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how did you come to your spiritual path ?
psalm 40:1-2
I waited patiently for the LORD;
And He inclined to me and heard my cry.
He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay,
And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.
how did you come to your spiritual path ?
What lead you to your faith / Religion ?
StarshipEnterprise,
That's very interesting. I have heard of a lot of people like you who moved up the branch from most specific, to the more general (theist) then looked around their for a bit before moving along the branch more and then coming back up on the atheist side.
For me, however, the critical questions that lead to my leaving Christianity were very core things that spoke directly to the root of theism. They had to do with "how we know" something and so on. Therefore, I went directly to atheist, and all other supernatural religions were never a question since they all sprang from the same root ways of thinking about faith and knowledge. So, that period of jumping from religion to religion never happened for me. My journey did take place, but it started from that first jump from Christianity to base of the alternate branch at atheism, and then moved down that branch to a more specific humanism.
I don't really know...but started another thread.Wil,
Nontheistic Christianity? How is that possible?
Nice thread. Although it should read "faith/religion or lack thereof". Except that's kinda long lol.
GTG,
What I like about my belief system is that it makes absolute, perfect, logical sense to me. I will not tolerate a belief system that has discrepencies, and mine has none.
Interesting. I was raised with no religion, but was intensely interested in science. I followed the scientific paradigm of atheism, but the more I studied, the more I noticed how scientific principles were often bent over in order to support the 'scientific' atheist paradigm. It didn't make me give up science, but it made me question my atheism.Coming from a Christian background, about 6 years of intense, sequential thought on the matter established the beginnings of my current position. Since that time, I have continued to think and develop from mere atheism, to secular humanism, to Humanism, to what I call humanist contemplative thought (which includes inspirations from Buddhism, Taoism, Stoicism, and more).
it made me question my atheism.
I kinda miss him. At least he was entertaining. (Yes, I'm strange.)I described myself as an atheist till I "met" our mutual friend k.
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I kinda miss him. At least he was entertaining. (Yes, I'm strange.)![]()
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GTG,
What I like about my belief system is that it makes absolute, perfect, logical sense to me. I will not tolerate a belief system that has discrepencies, and mine has none.
sounds really boring![]()
the more I studied, the more I noticed how scientific principles were often bent over in order to support the 'scientific' atheist paradigm.
Boring? Are you saying your belief system doesn't make logical sense and you acknowledge it? Why would anyone believe something that doesn't make sense?