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Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion?
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RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion?
February 4, 2015 at 4:13 am
(February 2, 2015 at 4:20 pm)Nope Wrote: The title of the thread is the question I would like answered but with one slight caveat. Could theists not respond with anything about the afterlife? I want to know what theists get out of having faith right now. If I need to explain the question further, I will.

What I get out of religion is despair.

Yeah . . . Christianity makes me sad. Because once you become "not of this world" and less materialistic you begin to see everyone else from within. You begin to care about their problems. You see the evil around the world and despair.

But on the flip side, with faith I get a role model and also with faith I get the fruits of the holy spirit- love, joy, gentleness, goodness, kindness, peace, patience, self control and faithfulness. with faithfulness i can be confident of grace which I can deal with the problems of the world (which may range from family problems to world poverty)
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Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Nope - February 2, 2015 at 4:20 pm
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Jenny A - February 2, 2015 at 4:29 pm
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Tonus - February 2, 2015 at 4:30 pm
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Silver - February 2, 2015 at 4:31 pm
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Nope - February 3, 2015 at 9:56 am
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Nope - February 3, 2015 at 12:30 pm
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Nope - February 3, 2015 at 6:16 pm
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Tonus - February 4, 2015 at 8:36 am
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by professor - February 3, 2015 at 12:04 pm
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Nope - February 3, 2015 at 12:27 pm
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Minimalist - February 3, 2015 at 12:36 pm
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Mudhammam - February 5, 2015 at 8:06 pm
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Angrboda - February 3, 2015 at 3:02 pm
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Chas - February 3, 2015 at 6:44 pm
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Grasshopper - February 4, 2015 at 4:13 am
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Nope - February 4, 2015 at 4:57 am
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Angrboda - February 5, 2015 at 3:58 pm
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Godschild - February 5, 2015 at 3:00 pm
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Nope - February 5, 2015 at 6:17 pm
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Godschild - February 6, 2015 at 7:22 pm
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Esquilax - February 5, 2015 at 10:23 pm
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Angrboda - February 6, 2015 at 5:46 pm
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Mudhammam - February 6, 2015 at 3:37 am
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Aoi Magi - February 6, 2015 at 5:55 am
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by robvalue - February 6, 2015 at 7:27 am
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Mudhammam - February 6, 2015 at 7:38 pm
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Godschild - February 7, 2015 at 12:54 am
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Mudhammam - February 7, 2015 at 3:51 am
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by h4ym4n - February 9, 2015 at 7:17 am
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by h4ym4n - February 10, 2015 at 7:04 am
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Tonus - February 10, 2015 at 8:36 am
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Drich - February 7, 2015 at 12:45 am
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by robvalue - February 7, 2015 at 5:29 am
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Godschild - February 7, 2015 at 7:09 pm
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Mudhammam - February 8, 2015 at 12:10 am
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by Godschild - February 8, 2015 at 10:49 pm
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by dyresand - February 8, 2015 at 11:20 pm
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by robvalue - February 7, 2015 at 11:40 pm
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by robvalue - February 8, 2015 at 5:42 am
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by robvalue - February 8, 2015 at 11:26 pm
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by robvalue - February 10, 2015 at 8:48 am
RE: Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion? - by robvalue - February 10, 2015 at 9:16 am

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