Has anyone ever thought about rediscovering religion or thought about going back to the Church?
I've thought about starting my own new-age religion to get rich from gullible fools, but I value my integrity.
I've never had a religion that I could return to, but I can't imagine that if a blind man woke up one morning to discover that he could see; he'd want to go back into the dark.
@cutiebeauty Are you?
No... I am not...
@cutiebeauty Just checking. No judgement from me either way. Just wasn't sure if you might have been reaching out.
I never believed it ever so there's no chance. if I want to see a great fairy tail ill watch game of thrones or thor
If I ever decide I want to go back to playing make believe. Forget Church, I really want to try one of those cosplay conventions!
Absolutely not.
I prefer reality based on facts (testable, verifiable and falsifiable). I hold only pity for those who dishonestly employ faith (belief without evidence) as tool to analyze truth (based on testable facts).
No. I will go to the church in some occasions because of friends or family but don't even consider religion.
I'm thinking of going back next Sun. to the Unitarian church that I'm still technically a member of, even tho I haven't been in there for over a year. Thinking of going because I'm just too isolated, even tho I am very turned off by some of the people and the interim minister. But this really doesn't count as the kind of church you all are talking about.
I didn’t think about rediscovering religion, but, through the study of science, I discovered authentic religion for the first time. It doesn’t resemble what almost all believers and nonbelievers think religion is today.
@maturin1919
Belief in, and worship of, a literal god is what I'm saying almost all believers and non-believers think religion is about... and I don't.
@maturin1919
A good practice of course. But dictionaries are written by the same creatures that wrote all religious texts: humans.
@MissKathleen
Check your mail.
@maturin1919
Dictionaries give only the simplest definitions of words, so a reader or speaker can get in the ballpark. Move over to something like Wikipedia, and you get a full page of explanation, including the cautionary statement that there is no scholarly consensus on the precise definition of the word, religion. Move on over to a university library and you can spend a lifetime trying to figure out what religion is. It’s not a simple thing. I’d be happy to default to a definition if I could pin one down. We’re just left to decide on our own, and people don’t agree... and in this case, there is no single authoritative source to cite.
@maturin1919
It’s always a choice I guess.
For a while I wanted to try and get an idea of why some people were so adamantly hanging on to religion. After a while a pattern emerged - hard headed, simple mindedness. I would consider jumping off a cliff before even thinking of going back to any religion.