(February 6, 2010 at 3:09 pm)Darwinian Wrote: Religion is belief in a god or gods and the activities that are connected with this belief, such as praying or worshipping in a building such as a church or temple so therefore religious can be used to describe things that are connected with religion or with one particular religion.
How is it then that since I've been on these forums I've come up against quite a lot of people who, whilst claiming that they believe in God, follow the teachings of Jesus and study the Bible also claim that they are not religious or have no religion?
Is it that they somehow want to distance themselves from the uneducated, church going masses and claim some sort of intellectual high ground or perhaps they just don't like the stereotype that religion conjures up.
Interesting thread.
I would say that the majority of people who claim to be a christian have never read the bible and only go to church for weddings, funerals and maybe christmas eve.
They live their lives without as if god wasnt there but still 'believe'. religious kinda.
But you are talking of the people who read the bible, discuss the bible, but find the current religions unsatifactory.
Are they Relgious YES in my opinion, even if they represent a cult of one person.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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