What are your religious beliefs?

I was raised a Baptist but have since been born again into the Christian religion. Though I do not attend church regularly anymore I still do believe in God and am very spiritual.

I am constantly going abckwards and forwards so i am not sure where i stand. Im sorta in between. I believe that something omnipotent is out there but that its not necessarily God. In school i studied Philosophy of religion and we were taught various arguments like the cosmological argument and Theology believes in a god that is Omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscious and Benevolent which basically means all good, all loving, all knowing and always and forever. There are so many arguments for him, yet so many arguments against. For example, the problem of evil is a big kick in the teeth for christianity. A Scholar says that you wouldnt bake a cake with a mouldy section, so why would a god with all these good attributes create a world with a bad side. yet there is always a counter argument so christians say that its down to free will. I guess nobody will ever truly know if there is a god considering there are so many different religions that believe in diferent god. Sorry went on a bit of a ramble. I stand in between as i said before. I believe that there hs to be more than just this and there is so much aesthetic beauty in the world that it couldnt have come about purely by chance but i am not necessarily pinning it to any religion.

My family isn't religious and they let me make my own mind up about religion, so I had the freedom to do so, I have never had any interest in religion apart from going to Sunday School, I was never a church goer. However when I was 15 I lost my beloved nan after her ten year battle against cancer, she was only 68. From then on I lost my belief that there was anyone 'up' there, and besides how could there be a god when there is so much hate, war and famine in this world? I became borderline atheist/agnostic since 15. I have my own beliefs about what happens when we die, and they are not too dissimilar from Buddhist's doctrine.

I am from India. I am born in a Hindu faily and as a kid I used to follow the Hindu traditions and worshipping of the Gods in Hindu style by going to temples and attending the worships which are familierly known as 'Pujas'.(I have deliberately used the word Gods because in Hindu religion they believe there are 33 Crores of Gods in all!)But right fro my childhood I never got convinced and impressed with this type of Pujas and I discontinued to attend the temples and stopped worshipping when I was about 14 years or so. Since then I am an atheist! When I mean that I am an atheist, I really don't mean to say that there is no God etc. but I mean to say that there is definitely a power which is running this nature. If we look carefully around us , we notice that every living thing is interrelated and interdependant. As per the needs of the living creatures there is a formation of food chain. There is equilibrium of Eco- system. The animals they do reproduce when there is a congeneal climate. Different living things they behave in a different fashion in agiven situation! These are just few haphazrd examples I have quoted which makes us to think after all how and why these things are happening. What is the need of an living creature on the earth at the first place? If it was created then what was the necessity to provide food for it? After providing the food what makes the nature to provide congenial factors to reproduce ? Why there is difference in the living creatures at all ! Why some animals are terrestial and some are aquatic.Though scientists have come up with the answeres to such questions , there is no answer to it, as to why after all these food chains or Eco-system equilibrium is needed on the surface of the earth after all? Then it makes me to think that there has to be a super natural force which is responsible or cause of these to occur. And I firmly feel that understanding this force is beyond Human being's brain. Every thing is simply a hypothesis and nothing is clear so far! Under such circum stances I feel it very silly and funny that Human being poses as if he has searched the answer that there is a supreme power called as God who is responsible all these things, and further he personified the force and start worshipping him in the form of statues or any other forms! Things they don't stop there Hindus say that their God is different than Muslims, Christians and other religions! Don't you think all these things are too funny ? Adding to the miseries now a days some modern religions have errupted to add to the exixting confusion, they are like, Sikhism, Jainism, Bahaism etc. I think we should believe in only one religiuon that is Humanity and it should compraise the love and affection towards nature and all its constituents living and non living! What do you feel? Thanks for initiating such anice topic!

Im Hindu.Let me put it this way..i beleive in a religion called life and worship it everyday...i feel there is some power above us..bt i feel every god is one and every religion is one as far as we all human beings are considered....:)