Fed Up with Religion and Fed up with No Religion - Any Alternatives?

HUNK

Golly gosh, labels sure do make people mad.

irishconvert

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

Islam- Forget the twenty wives, it's kinda like Christianity with a prophet and some dirty stories and loads of fighting between the various off shoots. Christianity 2.0 I guess.

I'm a Muslim. If you are looking for something, or the meaning to life, you need to do a some deeper research. If you are looking for nothing, and are happy to believe we just "happened", and there is no meaning to life, continue to believe the above :-)

strobe

irishconvert wrote: »

- Don't panic, I'm Islamic!

Quality sig.

Wattle

irishconvert wrote: »

I'm a Muslim. If you are looking for something, or the meaning to life, you need to do a some deeper research. If you are looking for nothing, and are happy to believe we just "happened", and there is no meaning to life, continue to believe the above :-)

You can do as much research as you like. It doesn't necessarily mean you're right.

I think there are useful things in religions about how we can conduct ourselves and treat others but are they the divine revelations of some sort of God? I don't think so.

orangebud

Religion should be put in a bag and throw over the bridge

Wattle

irishconvert wrote: »

I'm a Muslim. If you are looking for something, or the meaning to life, you need to do a some deeper research. If you are looking for nothing, and are happy to believe we just "happened", and there is no meaning to life, continue to believe the above :-)

Why do you assume that people who don't share your beliefs have meaningless lives? That's kind of arrogant. I'm an atheist and there's plenty of meaning and purpose in my life.

irishconvert

Wattle wrote: »

You can do as much research as you like. It doesn't necessarily mean you're right.

My point is the OP's one line summing up of each religion seemed quite wide of the mark, especially in the case of Islam. If he wants to rule out each religion he really should do a little more research so that he actually knows what he is dismissing.

Wattle wrote: »

Why do you assume that people who don't share your beliefs have meaningless lives? That's kind of arrogant. I'm an atheist and there's plenty of meaning and purpose in my life.

I don't assume that at all. The OP is the one who said he is searching for meaning to life, he listed all of the major religions and dismissed them all. As I just said, he owes it to himself to actually do some proper research before he dismisses each one.

Turtwig

irishconvert wrote: »

I don't assume that at all. The OP is the one who said he is searching for meaning to life, he listed all of the major religions and dismissed them all. As I just said, he owes it to himself to actually do some proper research before he dismisses each one.

Presumably you applied the same proper research to the Norse, Mayans. Babylonians etc. etc. religions?

Logical Fallacy

orangebud wrote: »

Religion should be put in a bag and throw over the bridge

I think you would find people would simply argue about which bridge,which side and which time of day to do it at.

Then one person would decide that the guy who threw that bag was worth a bit of praise and that would spiral. The Religion Killer would end up being worshiped and millions of people would die because of different interpretations of who the Religion Killer was, what he looked like, where he was from and how he got here.

muppeteer

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

I think you would find people would simply argue about which bridge,which side and which time of day to do it at.

Then one person would decide that the guy who threw that bag was worth a bit of praise and that would spiral. The Religion Killer would end up being worshiped and millions of people would die because of different interpretations of who the Religion Killer was, what he looked like, where he was from and how he got here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBjEUyOw_00

yawha

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/atheists.png

starlit

I am fed up with all kinds of religion!

irishconvert

Malty_T wrote: »

Presumably you applied the same proper research to the Norse, Mayans. Babylonians etc. etc. religions?

I don't have to listen to every band in the world to know the Beatles are the band for me. But if I heard just one song each from a handful of bands, I really should do more research before telling people that all music is crap.

Beggared

Worship me.

It fulfills a basic need to have a deity however false.
We both know I'm not a god so you are not being taken in by the sham.

And I get to be flattered a little. Nobody's hurt, everbody wins.

irishconvert

Beggared wrote: »

Worship me.

It fulfills a basic need to have a deity however false.
We both know I'm not a god so you are not being taken in by the sham.

And I get to be flattered a little. Nobody's hurt, everbody wins.

If you can write something better than the Qur'an, maybe I'll consider it

Beggared

Set the bar a bit higher and I'll give it a go.

clarabows

Pantheism! google it!

markesmith

clarabows wrote: »

Pantheism! google it!

+1 on the Pantheism. Works for me. I don't believe in a higher power, other than nature. Which, judging by the mighty wind blowing across Galway, is certainly a higher power than I.