Anyone non-religious here? Please be nice!

[OccamsTazer]

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Oh, I mean a man as in just a man, not a deity, which is what I believe. Goes over like a lead balloon with most Christians, so I keep hush about it mostly.

 

[deb1]

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That was beautiful.

 

[Jkioneil]

Thank you

 

[deb1]

Happy Mother's Day to you all.

 

[Aunt Bea]

Well, now, the title of this thread caught my eye and I thought, "Hmmmmm I guess that's me". I'm not a religious person, although I did grow up going to church and took my children to church, too. I quit going to church when our church built a big building with an indoor skating rink, basketball court, sauna and bowling alley and then didn't want the poor children in the community to play there because they might mess it up.

When that happened, Hubs and I started staying home of Sunday mornings and working in the garden or taking drives together or cooking breakfast and spending Sunday mornings in bed with coffee and the newspapers. After a while, we realized that we were really enjoying Sundays without pantyhose and shirts and ties and were enjoying the time together much more. We thought about visiting some smaller churches but didn't ever get around to it. We've been out of church and religion for 10 years now and are happeir than ever.

Over time, I've found out that the spiritual concepts of Jesus gets lost when people look for Him in church and want to build bigger and fancier buildings and collect more and more money for them leaving less money for doing other things, like serving the poor, for instance.

So, like others here, I've created my own spiritual life that I'm very comfortable with and it doesn't follow the rules. I pray and light candles and meditate. I plant by the signs and drum when there's a full moon. I recognize, too, that you can be a spiritual person without believing in God at all. Every person has to follow his/her own path and that's fine with me. And if you don't follow one, that's fine with me, too.

Aunt Bea

 

[OrpingtonManor]

Aunt Bea, glad you found us.

 

[Pupsnpullets]

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Yeah, Aunt Bea, there are some idiosyncrasies around. We quietly eased out of church when I was a kid. My mother got terribly sick with pneumonia, too sick to get transported to the far away hospital, when I was 6 or 7. She never got a single visit from any church representative the whole time she was sick, but the minute my brother popped a kid in the nose at school for defending himself against a bully, a car load of church folk arrived on our doorstep tutt-tutting and waving fingers at her.

From that point on there was no parental pressure put on us to attend church or religious studies, lol. Many years later, maybe 20, long after we'd moved to a different area, my mother had a visit from one of the finger pointers and was apologised to for the whole series of incidents. That meant a lot to mum. It didn't get us back in church, though. I think it just taught me to cut out the middle man so to speak, and go directly to the source.

Welcome to BYC.

 

[Georgie17]

I like to believe in science, I have seen alot of science fiction films and tv programs like doctor who.

I believe in the big bang and god because their has been evidence of god and science. I hope to think their is such a thing as heaven! .I hope to think we are reborn when we die. but i dont go to church anymore.

 

[KDbeads]

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Can you please explain the evidence of god? I'm not sure I understand what you mean.

 

[EweSheep]

If I can interpret what she means God, I would assumed something of a higher being that some of us can not put our finger on it yet.

If she meant there is a REAL evidence of God, I would have a hard time believing it...none of us ever saw him nor did the generations behind us ever saw God himself. Sure there are other gods in other cultures like for example, the Egyptians with their gods and they have painted the gods in what they pervive their god of sun, god of earth, etc to be like. However like them, I do not think they actually saw their own gods as well sprouting from earth or heaven or both.