Are you in any way religious?

[Tsontos]

Personally I consider myself agnostic to atheist. I believed in God firmly as a kid then sort of gradually stopped believing. What about you?

[Ehetlaios]

Was a christian in my childhood but never actually believed in the dogma...

I was lucky enough to have an aunt who gave me some books about the Hellenic mythology when I was 6 or 7, they influenced me pretty deep but I dropped everything of the religion thing when I became 10. Then at 16 I started reading Norse mythology, liked it and returned to the Hellenic one, with a more open mind.

I don't say I am a "pagan", but I believe in a primordial connection between the ancient gods and the humans.

I'd vote for number two...

PS: Den kratiosouna e? Eprepe na anoikseis thema sto Philosophy gia na parei empros...

[Tsontos]

I don't say I am a "pagan", but I believe in a primordial connection between the ancient gods and the humans.

Explain what you mean here. Do you mean you believe in the "connection" between humans and what those ancient gods represented (sort of like what Nietzsche believed from what I remember) or do you actually believe in those gods existing in some metaphysical state?

I'd vote for number two...

So you believe some metaphysical being(s) exist?

PS: Den kratiosouna e? Eprepe na anoikseis thema sto Philosophy gia na parei empros..

And philosophy isnt even one of my main concerns personally. Where are all you philosophers who wanted this forum?

[pankration]

Raised Greek Orthodox, married to a Catholic but probably a closet Buddhist. I have trouble with a singular "god" but believe in some sort of greater consciousness at a spiritual level but am still scientific enough to question what I just said. Paradoxical? None of us will know the answer until we've passed. But I hope that my beloved father and uncle who have gone still exist at some level. Weird answer to a strange question.

[masolord]

Originally Posted by Voulgaroktonos

Personally I consider myself agnostic to atheist. I believed in God firmly as a kid then sort of gradually stopped believing. What about you?

i don't believe in anything
no god for me after all i had to go through during my early childhood.
i still wear the orthodox cross but i rarely i got to church, once a year-for socialising not for praying .
i hate all religions.

[Ehetlaios]

Originally Posted by Voulgaroktonos

Explain what you mean here. Do you mean you believe in the "connection" between humans and what those ancient gods represented (sort of like what Nietzsche believed from what I remember) or do you actually believe in those gods existing in some metaphysical state?

Metaphysical state, no. Nor I am one of those who say they were aliens who came from "some galaxy far far away" and that Pegasus was actually a spaceship...

Let's just say that when man needed gods, he created them with himself as an example and not the opposite. That is why, in every culture, all the gods are the way the humans wanted them. The hebrews needed a god that could keep them firm, themselves constantly being under someone else's yoke. The Hellenes were always full of passion about everything in life, something they portrayed to their gods as well. If not, why is mischief so common among the gods? The norsemen, being always warlike, had so many gods of war, Odin, Tyr, Heimdall, Thor. While the slavs (Sventevith, Swarog, Veles) who were also warlike, had given to their gods some samanistic powers as well.

Each people had their own gods and it's not something to be ashamed of, on the contrary. They should be respected because they're the gods they initially wanted for themselves, not the gods that were forced on them.

Where are all you philosophers who wanted this forum?

Here and there.

[Ehetlaios]

Originally Posted by masolord

i don't believe in anything
no god for me after all i had to go through during my early childhood.
i still wear the orthodox cross but i rarely i got to church, once a year-for socialising not for praying .
i hate all religions.

No comment here. Typical skop.

[Orphic_Hymn]

Originally Posted by Ehetlaios

Metaphysical state, no. Nor I am one of those who say they were aliens who came from "some galaxy far far away" and that Pegasus was actually a spaceship...

Ela re.. no Keramudas, not even a bit of E..

[Lakonian]

Originally Posted by Voulgaroktonos

Personally I consider myself agnostic to atheist. I believed in God firmly as a kid then sort of gradually stopped believing. What about you?

Agnostic...i have already covered this.

[Lakonian]

Wheres all the philosophers??.Well the topic of religion was covered in an old post of mine...i dont know what else i could say about this topic....i believe the universe was created out of nothing, it has no begining and no end according to the laws of science....the basic assumption of science is scientific determinism, the laws of science determine the evolution of the universe given its state at one time...these laws may or may not have been decreed by god but he cannot intervine to break the laws or they will not be laws...that leaves god with the freedom to choose the initial state of the univerese but even here its seems there may be laws...so god will have no freedom at all.Do you follow?
That is why im agnostic....because the begining is unclear to me other than what science is revealing. What is important to me is purpose...we are lost without it, so the human conscious creates the omnipotence to anchor us, to make rational of how we carry out our lives and shrug at phenomena as if to say that is for GOD to know, and not us,...its a pity, for Solon's laws already gave us sanity, and Socrates gave us the will to question all....for the question is the foundation of truth.