Message from @Deleted User

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2018-06-14 04:47:51 UTC  

I'm not particularly religious though, I'm just not an atheist

2018-06-14 04:47:57 UTC  

Neither am I

2018-06-14 04:48:30 UTC  

i think your statements are a big faulty

2018-06-14 04:48:35 UTC  

k

2018-06-14 04:48:36 UTC  

Why

2018-06-14 04:49:28 UTC  

you are making an assumption that it's all or nothing with some of this stuff, which doesn't make sense to me

2018-06-14 04:50:01 UTC  

Could you be more specific?

2018-06-14 04:50:09 UTC  

yeah

2018-06-14 04:50:22 UTC  

"If nobody can agree on it it's not much of anything"

2018-06-14 04:50:22 UTC  

Thanks

2018-06-14 04:50:37 UTC  

Ok, not EVERYONE has to agree on EVERYTHING

2018-06-14 04:50:49 UTC  

Just like 40% or something in the double digits at least

2018-06-14 04:50:56 UTC  

why?

2018-06-14 04:51:26 UTC  

Because if less people agree the religion should be split up until more people agree in various divisions

2018-06-14 04:51:27 UTC  

there are levels of understanding though

2018-06-14 04:51:35 UTC  

Then those are better religions for those people

2018-06-14 04:51:54 UTC  

Ok, not "better"

2018-06-14 04:51:57 UTC  

I don't think religion is about agreeing with people though

2018-06-14 04:52:02 UTC  

More representative of how they feel

2018-06-14 04:52:08 UTC  

And who they are and all that

2018-06-14 04:52:18 UTC  

I think religion is a personal thing

2018-06-14 04:52:30 UTC  

sure there is a community aspect to it

2018-06-14 04:52:42 UTC  

But if it's not a relatively cohesive thing then there's no point defining it as a religion, because it's so loose

2018-06-14 04:53:04 UTC  

it's about how an individual should get along in the world

2018-06-14 04:53:30 UTC  

For me it's "religion" representing the community aspect and "belief" or whatever else representing individual opinions and thoughts

2018-06-14 04:53:56 UTC  

i see

2018-06-14 04:53:59 UTC  

So having some sort of cohesiveness is important for the community aspect

2018-06-14 04:54:26 UTC  

Basically if there were one Christian left in the world, it would be pointless to call him a Christian

2018-06-14 04:55:38 UTC  

For me the more a person strays from the orthodox of whatever subgroup they're in the less they are representative of that group

2018-06-14 04:55:49 UTC  

you can call yourself whatever you want, but if you stray that far from the teachings then why call yourself that at all? lol

2018-06-14 04:55:57 UTC  

Exactly

2018-06-14 04:56:28 UTC  

also I think there are levels of religiousness

2018-06-14 04:56:35 UTC  

that is important to note i think

2018-06-14 04:57:04 UTC  

it makes it harder to define unfortunately

2018-06-14 04:57:14 UTC  

For me it's how strongly you believe in whatever is being discussed

2018-06-14 04:58:14 UTC  

If you're willing to debate reasonably but are defensive that's about average, if you border on burning heretics that's a pretty strong belief, if you bend over backwards to help others violate your beliefs you don't really believe those things

2018-06-14 04:58:53 UTC  

you can have strong beliefs and not want to hurt anyone too

2018-06-14 04:59:20 UTC  

So I don't consider churches that have a gay pride flag to have strong christian beliefs (as laid out in the bible)

2018-06-14 04:59:36 UTC  

Yeah, it's just an example

2018-06-14 04:59:36 UTC  

right

2018-06-14 04:59:43 UTC  

gotcha