Start Your Own Religion

By mugen shiyo · Sep 15, 2011 · ·
  1. If I were religious I would think that it would be a profoundly personal experience. My religion could not be dictated to me, it would be something I would have to find for myself. There should be no need for a bible or sacred text. The religion I follow should be perceptible and apparent. I should not have to be told the name of my god or his laws, I should be able to discover them on my own.

    When people say they follow a religion, it appears just like that. They follow something preset for them. It is not their true beliefs, only the beliefs of someone else. If Islam never existed before today, how many people would claim to be Islamic tomorrow? How many people would know the name of God and the his law? I don't think you can choose to believe in something. I can't make myself believe that the sky is red or water is not wet. You either believe in it or you don't because your beliefs are you sincere beliefs you know to be true regardless of what you may tell yourself.

    So...why not drop it. Discard the bible and everything you know about your religion and ask yourself, what do I believe in? What do I feel is right and wrong? You're doing it anyway. Most people live in contradiction to their stated religion because they really don't believe in their religion. Why bother with the pretense?

    I think we all are religious because we have things that we believe in. Really believe in. For me, I believe in a lot of things, not just one titular thing. I believe in real friendship and the benefit of hard work. I believe that some bad is necessary, some people need to be smacked, and the fact that the world is made up of the good and the bad and their is no greater explanation for that other than human nature and that we must deal with our own problems. All my sincere beliefs form my unique outlook of the world. My religion. And as life goes on, my religion matures as my experiences grow. In the end, the only thing I could pass on is knowledge and wisdom as I see it. Another would have to hear it and determine for themselves what is right for them and what is wrong.

    Religion is your sincerest beliefs. Your personal views and feelings. No one can tell you your religion so why not start your own.

Comments

  1. Gracia Bee
    I'm with you. I'm not religious at all. I'm just me with my beliefs and feelings towards the world. Most of my friends are catholic and they say everything else but Gods way of life is crap. I couldn't beleive it when they said it. They said Buddah is a made up fat person. They say I got it all wrong when I said the world is what you make it. They think God made the world and we should live by his rules. They believe nothing but what the bible tells them.
  2. mugen shiyo
    Yeah, and they can grow as passionate and outspoken in defense of it as I would my own freedom of thought. Religion tends to be exclusionary, though. It's a system of thought, and anything not within that system is wrong, blasphemous, yada, yada. Better to be aware and observe the world as it is. Come to your own conclusions.
  3. Hex44
    And most of your views are entirely philosophical. I love the way you word things, I dont think I have as much of a gift with words as you, however the truth is as big or as small as you need it to be. The major purpose for religion may be to sort the masses into a large but easier to manipulate body. That may be wrong but if everyone on did as the saw fit, would that law be the same for those how loved to rape murder lie and steal?
  4. mugen shiyo
    Religion is definitely that. Christianity's swift spread was due solely because it made ruling people very easy. Kings were quick to adopt it and when they did, they forced everyone else to. Kind of a love Jesus or else thing.

    Murderers, rapists, and thieves...I'm not calling for anyone to dissolve law and order, I'm saying be true to yourself. If being true to yourself happens to harm other people, you get tossed aside like any other bad apple.
  5. jonathan hernandez13
    I don't buy your notion that everyone is religious if they believe something. If someone believes something, they have a basis or are otherwise convinced by something. Some people might have a good reason for believing something, and then some people have no good reason.

    Calling me religious because I believe in gravity is really an abuse of the term, religion is a specific term with a specific definition along with a ton of baggage.

    And if you no longer have a holy book, a god, or a set of organized beliefs, why would you need another religion at that point? It sounds like at that point you are free to believe things with good reason and don't need to codify them.
  6. mugen shiyo
    Well, I don't mean believe in anything and everything if you want to give a pedantic ( i'm loving that word of late) analyzation to what I said. I meant and wrote really believe in. As in guiding beliefs in life.

    And about the Holy books, that's exactly what I'm trying to and did say. Are you reading what I'm writing or just the title :p
  7. jonathan hernandez13
    The problem is not with the semantics, the problem is that your whole premise is flawed. People do not and cannot knowingly decide what to believe, when to drop a belief, adopt new ones, etc. Beliefs can change over time (theists can become atheists, like I did), but I did not plan or decide that.

    Your notion that anyone is religious if they have a belief is absolutely false.

    I am not being pedantic, believe me (pun intended) when I say that I'm not beating up on you, so there's no need to get defensive. You have made some fractally wrong statements and I am doing you a favor by correcting you before some really strident and well read religious person corrects you in less polite ways.

    I would hope anyone does the same for me if I construct such a house of cards and post it on a public blog.

    And I am reading your posts, but apparently you are not reading mine. I did not fixate on holy books, my point went completely over your head. My point, which I think is a rather valid one, is that things like holy texts, doctrines, sermons, moral tales, etc, are used as a way to codify organized beliefs. You are making an appeal to people to abandon them, and not rely on inherited practices.

    That seems to be a great idea, but then you have to mix in his idea of religion with it, and lay out before you all the things you think are good, as if there is some sort of moral cook book to use. But you admit that your moral standards change over time, so the religion would have to amended too. That's the reason why we don't need religion, because its resistant to change.

    The word has a meaning and baggage, so when you say religion I think you mean something else, and encouraging everyone to start their own personal religion if it jives with them is actually bad advice. The world has enough silly religions as it is. Instead of telling people to codify what they believe, which is pointless because their beliefs will change anyway, believe me---we should be encouraging people to believe in things that they have a good reason too.

    That's all.
  8. mugen shiyo
    I did read your posts, actually, lol. I spent a lot of time reading them but did not get the chance to comment- with me blabbering on about whatever's in my head and all. I meant to comment on your posts one by one. Yours, Lemex's, and a few others. In time, though...

    I think I said clearly enough that people can not decide what they believe in. Of course these things change over time. Here, I'll point out the parts for you;

    and

    I'm not sure what you mean in you're post. You say I am being offensive, yet you say in your reply that the world is already full of 'silly religions' as it is. Exactly which ones are silly my unoffensive one :p

    Plus, you may be taking my words too literally. You say we should be encouraging people to believe in things that they have a good reason to. Shouldn't a person believe in themselves. That's what my post is saying. Find who you are and what you believe in. Then follow that true part of yourself like you would a religion. I do not mean worship yourself. And believe me, if you believe strongly about something, then you already have a code of beliefs.

    But I do appreciate all your comments. Very much, actually. It's why I began to read yours. I'll post when I have the chance. I've got a whole list of things I wanted to ask you about what I read.
  9. jonathan hernandez13
    I think...we just have to agree to disagree, we are not seeing this the same way. Sigh...

    And yes, I think all religions are silly, bu that's because I'm an apostate atheist anti-theist blaspheming hellbound heretic. O__o
  10. mugen shiyo
    Damn straight :p
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