Posted by: yatri_freewoman March 31, 2005
What religion do you call yourself?
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Andrew Bro, I was born in a hindu family, so I am hindu by default. But I believe in no savior or destroyer idea watsoever. I read a lot of Bhatwat Geeta and any Buddhist religious book I can find cause they give me a basis to base my thoughts and help me develop my understanding of moral right and wrong. I do not want to change to other religion because I do not know much about them and neither have I read good things about them. I do not believe in any religion that believes in someone called GOD. It might sound contradicting, yet it is not. If you go deeper in Hindu belief it boils down to Vedic lifestyle of self-discipline, and for Budhism it is understanding oneself and emancipating yourself from illusions. They believe in pursuing the real happiness. Hindu does it through stories, the actors of which it seems ppl mistake for gods and demons. So for unorthodoxed ppl like me, there are no god in either of the religions. I choose this attitude, because I see no purpose of God in my life. I have hope and that suffices the need of having something in desperate times. I see no reason why I should live in some unknown dude's mercy at all the time, give credit of my good doings and bad doings to it; it just seems like a respectable and easy way of shying away from taking responsibility for ones actions. Yet I go to temple, and take part in religious activities because it makes my parents and my granny happy. It does not cost me too much to do those things compared to the benefit I get in form of satisfaction by making ppl I love happy.
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