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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: SwifDi on January 16, 2003, 11:50:32 AM
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(Just post the religion... and if you\'re an atheist, just put that, no religion bashing)
Roman-Catholic
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Christian - Baptist. Used o be Methodist and Catholic too. Great idea on the no bashing part I hope it\'ll be enforced.
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I believe in god, but I don\'t go to Church or pray or anything. Plus I do alot of things god wouldn\'t like.
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Atheist.
Never even been to any sort of church or temple or anything for religous reasons (although I find it interesting that I often know more about the faiths my friends claim to follow than they do).
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Catholic, sorta
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me i am Roman-Catholic the offical Fan club of Jesus.
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Protestant.
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Dunno. I go to St. Mattress though.
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Undecided.
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Christian
:alien:
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Athiest... god doesnt exist people.... he was invented to keep people in line.
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Didn\'t read the topic starter\'s request did you? :) Stop force-feeding us your beliefs and don\'t be so close-minded (ironic isn\'t it).
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Atheist
Though technically a Christian/protestant
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NONE. -I belive there is a creator, I also belive that there is NO 100% correct religion other then to go with what you feel to be right.
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I am supposed to be a Christian orthodox.
But I am following elements from various religions.
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Nowt
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What do u mean by Nowt?:confused:
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Nowt = nothing.
I\'m not religious in any way whatsoever.
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Buddist
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Oficially i\'m catholic, but I don\'t believe in anything but me.
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Originally posted by fastson
Buddist
Are u really a Budist?
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Roman-Catholic
Peace to all of you. Well, almost all of you.
Ace
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Buddist also, acctually all my family is Buddist, except for my Jewish lesbian sister.
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Roman-Catholic
Although not by choice, and I\'m not exactly practicing.
So I guess you could say I\'m undecided as to whether or not I even believe, netherlone which faith to believe in.
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Christian, I go to church to comfort my mother, who is very religious, I myself dont really believe in some of this stuff.
Although I respect 110% everyones religious opinion.
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Agnostic.
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quick question for the ignorant.
What exactly is the difference between catholic and christian?
I grew up hearing the two used together quite often. I get older and hear them used seperately more often than not.
Can anyone explain?
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Originally posted by luckee
quick question for the ignorant.
What exactly is the difference between catholic and christian?
I grew up hearing the two used together quite often. I get older and hear them used seperately more often than not.
Can anyone explain?
My understanding is that you\'re a christian if you believe in God, the God that is associated with Jesus....
While a catholic person is also a christian but has slightly different beliefs than another religion.
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that was about I was able to put together :( I was kinda lookin for more info. I guess I should have clarified more.
Thanx anyway though.
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Oh, I thought a Catholic was just like a hardcore Christian. :/
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Originally, it was just Christianity. It later split into all sorts of different sects. Catholics are basically the ones that view the pope as the head of the church, from what I understand.
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Originally posted by luckee
quick question for the ignorant.
What exactly is the difference between catholic and christian?
I grew up hearing the two used together quite often. I get older and hear them used seperately more often than not.
Can anyone explain?
Christianity used to be one church, which is the church under the leadership of the Pope. Then, came Martin Luther (I\'m pretty sure he was the first of the reformers), who was a guy in Germany, and he analyzed the church\'s activities.
He thought, "Why would we need the Pope to commune with God? Why can\'t just any person just go to church and have a direct relationship with God like the Pope?" He believed that anyone who is faithful to God doesn\'t need to have a priest, bishop, archbishop, or the Pope to be able to talk to God.
He saw the church\'s way of doing things was also corrupt. Back then, rich nobles would donate money to the church or have a church built as a way of showing his faith, which by then would ensure his salvation into heaven. Luther thought that buying your way into heaven was dispicable. He believed that through hardwork and devotion in the name of God would ensure one\'s salvation. He thought that donations to the church was only helping the Pope get rich.
Back in his day, the books were all written in Latin. Not every person knew how to read their own language, let alone Latin. I think that it was Luther (but I\'m not quite sure if it\'s him exactly) who wrote the vernacular Bible which means he translated the Bible into German (vernacular means one\'s speaking language, so it doesn\'t necesarrily mean just German. The BIble was later translated into other languages as well).
There were other things that Luther saw wrong with the church\'s doings. So he decided to reform the religion. And that\'s how Protestantism popped up. The one that Martin Luther created was Lutherism. If I remember correctly, Protestantism is every other Christian denomination other than Catholic. The root word is "protest;" Some followers of the church converted to Protestantism when they realized that they don\'t need to buy their way into heaven or they didn\'t need to have so many communions. They believed that priests don\'t have and can\'t have the "divine power" to change wine into blood and bread into flesh. Catholics have saints who play important roles in the church while Protestants believe that they don\'t have as important roles as God or Jesus themselves. Anyways, people started to think that maybe the church is corrupt and many broke into different denominations, like Henry VIII.
So to summarize, when you hear Catholic, it refers to the church that has the Pope being the head honcho. When you hear Christianity, it means all religious denominations that believes Jesus Christ is the Messiah.
PS What I said is what I remember from my Humanities class three years ago. Those who do practice Christianity and really really understand the difference, please feel free to correct me! :D
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Roman Catholic who is angry at the Vatican.
Considering switching to what Roman Catholics used to be 1,800 years ago : Coptics
modern day Coptics = 280 A.D. Catholics
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Absolutely nothing
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christian. maybe presbetarian. ?
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Originally posted by Kimahri
Athiest... god doesnt exist people.... he was invented to keep people in line.
heh, same here. add to that, you like star trek!. good on ya!
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I figured it out. I would say that in the past I considered myself a Christian. I still do, it’s just that some things have changed. I have changed for the worse in most Christian’s eyes but that brings up my point. I don’t want to here about al the do’s and don’ts of religion.
The Bible clearly states that if we confess with our mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in our hearts that God raised Him from the dead we will be saved. It doesn’t tell me that I have to stop drinking, smoking, cussing and such to be saved. Those things in my life may end soon enough.
And to that I say as I live my life and read the Bible more I will become, as I am to be. What that is exactly I can’t tell ya. I don’t know what I will be like in the future. All I can say is that I think the only way for me to go is up. It doesn’t get any worse than this boys…and girls.
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Christian. :)
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None. I\'m not even Athiest - as that would be a religion. There may be a God, there may not. I don\'t know if there is or isn\'t - therefor I can\'t believe there isn\'t and I can\'t believe there is. I just know I\'m alive and I try to be a decent person. That\'s all I concern myself with.
I was raised as a Jehovah\'s Witness though.