Zippit,

It’s cool. I come from a religious background that I questioned all the time, even when my family focused only on teaching us the wholesome beautiful stuff, it’s still hard to be on board with the rest or how other people interpret it.

So I’ve decided to quit. It’s still hard, but I do still believe in a higher power. All the rest… I don’t think God cares about head scarves or sex or alcohol,… Just live your life the way you want to and you’ll be okay.

ki77erb,

This is kind of where I’m at in life at 40. I grew up in the Christian church but as an adult, I see so much hate, intolerance, oppression and exploitation. I’m a lover of science to my core and I also believe in a higher power. I just choose to keep that mostly to myself in my day-to-day life.

Zippit,

Same, 44, but Muslim background :) I don’t know why but your view makes me so happy, like I’m not the only one… Let’s just live our lives in peace and I agree. We have to figure out who we are and what we stand for as a ‘human’ without interference, so keeping that to ourselves (offline) makes it easier in this timeline. Let’s figure it out first and then we can go from there.

forrgott,

When I turned forty, I decided Jesus fasting for forty days and nights was just an allegory for how you don’t really find out who you really are until you’re over the hill! ;-)

Presi300,
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I don’t generally believe in a “higher power”, despite having religious parents, I never really understood it… I just don’t get how people can genuinely believe that there is a higher power that is somehow watching over everyone. That’s not to say tat religion is a bad thing. It’s not, in fact most non-radicalized religions have genuinely good teachings, be it Christianity, Buddhism or Islam (and others, again I’m not too into this stuff, these are just the religions I can speak semi-confidently about), they all fundamentally teach the same basic things, don’t be an asshole, live modestly, help others, etc… (yes I do know it’s MUCH more complicated than that).

That’s the way I ultimately see the “higher power”, as a way to get people to be good members of society by making them believe that there is a higher power that will bless them if they are.

jedi,

Yup, I don’t believe in divine intervention.

starbreaker, (edited )
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Because I've been playing the audiobook of Eiji Yoshikawa's Musashi for my wife, here's a line from Musashi's Dokkōdō, the "way of walking alone":

Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help.

afraid_of_zombies,

There is no reason why anyone has to make the same mistakes I made. There is no god. Just skip to the last step and save yourself so much agony.

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