What is your religion?
- Thread starter MrDawn
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I am not religious but I do believe there is a higher power or"god" I think there is more than meets the eye to this, 
I am not religious either but I do believe there is some kind of spiritual presence.
the_raven
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I was baptised as Eastern Orthodox, but never really taken to church, outside of funerals and an occasional field trip in school when we'd go to see old monasteries or whatever.
In the recent years I have become more partial to historic pagan revivalism, but my problem is that, at the end of the day, a lot of these revivalists are just cosplaying Christians, because we're all so far removed from historic pagan practices and sensibilities (in no small part thanks to the militant Christianity during the middle ages) that we can't practice revivalist paganism and say in good faith that it's the way our ancestors did it. I've seen Dacian "pagans" unironically adopt Jesus into their pantheon, I've seen Scandinavian "pagans" adopt the cross hand gesture as "the hammer of Thor" gesture, I've seen a lot of "pagans" practice their faith in a Christian fashion with prayer without tribute, groveling, and things like that. It's just not how it was in the old days. And yes, one can argue that many of those pagan faiths were eclectic and personal, but there were still rules that they followed, because society means organization, and religion, as a societal concept, is also organized.
In general, the beauty of paganism is that you may not even be an official devotee of a deity, but you still are a devotee, simply because you use things associated with said deity. If you indulge in a lot of wine drinking, you're already a devotee of Dionysos\ Bacchus, if you're a soldier, you're already a devotee of Mars\ Ares, or Odin, or Sekhmet, or any number of other warrior gods\ goddesses, etc., etc.
These days I just say I'm a dadaist. It helps cope with all the bs in the world, and I don't need to pray or do anything. It also leaves room for interpretation. Does Dada exist? Is it a god, a demon, a demiurge? Does it even care? Either way works for me.
I am a dadaist because I am human. And I am human, because I am a dadaist.
In the recent years I have become more partial to historic pagan revivalism, but my problem is that, at the end of the day, a lot of these revivalists are just cosplaying Christians, because we're all so far removed from historic pagan practices and sensibilities (in no small part thanks to the militant Christianity during the middle ages) that we can't practice revivalist paganism and say in good faith that it's the way our ancestors did it. I've seen Dacian "pagans" unironically adopt Jesus into their pantheon, I've seen Scandinavian "pagans" adopt the cross hand gesture as "the hammer of Thor" gesture, I've seen a lot of "pagans" practice their faith in a Christian fashion with prayer without tribute, groveling, and things like that. It's just not how it was in the old days. And yes, one can argue that many of those pagan faiths were eclectic and personal, but there were still rules that they followed, because society means organization, and religion, as a societal concept, is also organized.
In general, the beauty of paganism is that you may not even be an official devotee of a deity, but you still are a devotee, simply because you use things associated with said deity. If you indulge in a lot of wine drinking, you're already a devotee of Dionysos\ Bacchus, if you're a soldier, you're already a devotee of Mars\ Ares, or Odin, or Sekhmet, or any number of other warrior gods\ goddesses, etc., etc.
These days I just say I'm a dadaist. It helps cope with all the bs in the world, and I don't need to pray or do anything. It also leaves room for interpretation. Does Dada exist? Is it a god, a demon, a demiurge? Does it even care? Either way works for me.
I am a dadaist because I am human. And I am human, because I am a dadaist.
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Aufscherin
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Many want to believe in an afterlife because they are not willing to accept that this shi**y life, is all that there is. The concept of only this would drive some mad.