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Just two question by a church-doubter:1) Who needs church who has God in himself? 2) If prayer is a conversation with God, why do we need the holy communion? One can commit to prayer in solitude.~My personal opinion on religion is that it is very much like with sports teams. You're born in a town and dragged into crowded arenas, told to cheer for your parent's team. You grow up with friends who all love this team, and so you stick with it. You don't grow up in Germany telling your parents you would rather watch Manchester United play, right? You just don't.
I was born and raised catholic and dragged to church and sunday school and stuff as a child. I never really protested it that much, except for when i was in the middle of coding/playing soldat. since becoming an adult, i'm not a "practicing" catholic. i don't go to church except for weddings and funerals and when my parents drag me there when i come home to visit. i still consider myself catholic though, despite all of the sins i commit on a regular basis and not attending masswith regards to evolution vs creation, etc, i believe in evolution with the caveat that "god" made the stuff leading up to the big bang/etc. that stuff about him creating humans in his own image can kind of go fuck itself too. i'm selective in terms of the amount of stuff my religion says that i choose to believe/follow.that said, i really don't like talking about religion much. i refuse to partake in such conversations at work or tell people that i'm catholic since almost everyone in the tech field is an atheist apparently and the last thing i feel like dealing with is a debate or a 'lets agree to disagree' convo
Just two question by a church-doubter:1) Who needs church who has God in himself? 2) If prayer is a conversation with God, why do we need the holy communion? One can commit to prayer in solitude.
1) church backs up and helps to maintain your belief in god as well as brings likeminded people around you. i hear it's a nice place to pick up chicks too anyway.---additionally, i despise people who try to convince religious people that it's stupid hocus pokus and a waste of time almost as much as i hate people who try to make nonreligious people religious. both parties can go to hell and suck my ambivalent dick.
being in a religion is meant to serve as a means for learning the truth
That being said: how can you learn truth?
I think you phrased it incorrectly, you should have said "being in a religion is meant to serve as a means for learning how to deal with tough reality by wishful thinking"
tough reality is that you most likely will not go to "heaven" once you die
Thoughts?
with regards to evolution vs creation, etc, i believe in evolution with the caveat that "god" made the stuff leading up to the big bang/etc.
I just can't stand by while someone is wrong on the Internet.
And God and science is not necessarily a dichotomy.
Well yeah. Science only deals with the natural. Most gods are regarded as supernatural.
There is a reason why evolution is a theory, and not a 'fact'
You would do well not to slip into denial of history along with your recurring denial of fundemental logic. If reality conflicts with your world view then your world view is corrupted. It is that simple.