What do you believe in?

[Mitera Nikkou]

Yeah. We're here now, this is what we currently have any amount of control over, so we might as well try to live our lives out how we want. We can worry about the afterlife later, if/when it comes.

I'm not saying anything of the sort Nikkou.

*spits the words Nikkou put in my mouth out*

Allergic to jokes? You poor thing~

I'd mother ya, but I'm afraid I might smother ya in the process.

[Xia]

I actually thought you might have included a hidden message in that post with "see the invisible."

Wow I'm geeky.

who said I didn't?

You're a bloody tax collector!

And this is an audit~!

[Mitera Nikkou]

NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!

[Helel]

I actually thought you might have included a hidden message in that post with "see the invisible."

Wow I'm geeky.

who said I didn't?

Yeah, I totally saw it in Xia's post. What are you, blind? :P

[Blaze]

No, it's just that the joke tasted nasty.

"brushes teeth, gargles mouthwash*

[Mitera Nikkou]

But it wasn't a dirty joke. *Looks on innocently*

[Rodney]

You may select 1 option

No, I should not !
There isn't one answer which excludes the others.

I believe in the separation of church and state as well as avoiding to discuss religious topic with strangers as you never know who will feel offended.

Yet I am still amazed by the "debate" over evolution which happened in the US in the second half of the 2000's. A small group of people which aim was to force the teaching of the existence of God to students choose to do so under the veil of a pseudo science and it managed to gain a huge media coverage.

It was really chilling for Europeans (and quite a few Americans I'm sure) when President George W. Bush expressed support for the idea of teaching intelligent design. Making secular decisions like choosing, say solar powered technology over wind powered technology should not be made by a guy who needs to refer to his bible for such choices.

I believe that religions have a positive and powerful effect when one needs to make moral choices.
However, I will never try to deduce how a tree grows by making wild parallels with holly scriptures.

At this point, I would like you to read about Modern Geocentrism. Now I will take the risk of sounding shocking but I do not believe that the book about the story of a nice carpenter whose message was about embracing love for humankind should have been used by NASA when they made their flight plan to go to the moon.
The Bible is a book too important in my eyes to dwell with such technicalities, it focuses on more important issues, like why Buzz Aldrin should neither punch Neil Armstrong while on the moon nor a Russian if he meets one.

Finally, I would like to share with you two quotes, very similar beside the time between them :

[T]he struggles of the Intelligent Design movement are best understood as clamorous and disappointing double failures - rejected by science because they do not fit the facts, and having failed religion because they think too little of God
Kenneth Miller born 1948, Roman Catholic

I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree: "The intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heavens go."
Galileo Galilei born 1564, Roman Catholic

[Blaze]

I know. I just need to clean my mouth.

[AmbushCat]

I suggest using Pepsodent.

[Rodney]

Gargling is also an option.

[KonokoHasano]

Gargling is also an option.

And also feels weird.

Honestly, I have no real religion, and I've never been to church before. I can't say that I believe in God since I've been finding myself believing less and less, and I'm not even sure if I do any more. I don't find myself to be atheist, though, and more along the lines of being an agnostic. I still love learning about religions, because they provide a fun spice in things.

I know that I HATE it when people use religion as an excuse for what they do and why they do it.

[Mitera Nikkou]

Excuses are for jerks. Like Karm.

And that's my plug. I've got nothing.

[AmbushCat]

Years ago, I went to a church to attend an uncle's funeral. I decided then and there that I would never set foot in another one again; the stuff they use there frightens me.

[Xia]

Large windows?

[AmbushCat]

It wasn't the windows that bothered me (those were kinda neat, actually). As to what it was, I'd rather not talk about it. *shudder*