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follow your beliefs. its ok not to have a religion. its ok to follow more than one. just do what YOU want to do/

personally I feel you should follow your heart. 'religion' is merely mankinds interpretation of the divine and how one should worship which is generally according to the culture one belongs to. that's why I dont think it matters. underneath all the dogma and rules each religion says one must believe and follow, all religions say the same thing anyway. live with love and compassion for your neighbors, be true to your conscience, and be the best person you can possibly be. my problem with organized religion is that people tend to miss or ignore the meaning, and focus instead on all the silly laws as if THOSE are what's important.. such as going to church on sunday (or at all), dont eat meat on certain days, circumcision, no sex before marriage, etc... the people who focus on these things are totally missing the point.

in essence, I believe that organized religion truly tends to draw people AWAY from their god, and not closer to it. follow your heart, be true to yourself.. dont follow a path just because someone else says you have to.

(This was once phynixblack)

mwuahahaha ! I return for another teenage vantage point on the religious world.

'Religion is in essence nothing but a....lets say....big pot. That pot is for hope and stability. Some need to have the idea that there is something, some greater power, something watching and helping them. Without religion this world would be highly unstable and even more unpredictable. Those who pray, Pray my friends...Those who don't, well, It isn't required of everyone I guess. maybe I will find some other place, maybe I will meet and angel (if I haven't) but I truthfully simply see it as humans trying to give simplistic and thorough reasoning to the utterly un-simplistic and non-thorough things, like the so called 'miracles'

maybe you should give a try to something different even if your not crazy about it. whats right may not allways be what you think you want and i dont mean so sound like im trying to push you in any certain direction but i have personaly seen what its like to be in a religion you dont particularly believe in or just remove god and religion from your life and you cannot expect the happiness you are looking for from it.

I have my own religion, which you can find in the link in my signature, Guardians United. If you want, you can read that and see what you think. I'm not forcing you to join, I just want to give you options. My religion tends to be much more . . . accepting than others. You can worship God and still have your own ideas. You shouldn't let your parents decide for you, though.

Follow your own beliefs in the best choice in my opinion. Organized religion is too dangerous for me. I personally believe that there is a god of sort out there and he did stuff and... shazaam. Here we are.

Yup. Thats the condensed version. I'll have to type up the full version of my creation theory some time. People like it.

I agree