What is being religious?

[zenzero]

Friends,

Personal understanding is that being religious has nothing to do with any belief in god. In such a scenario even an atheist could be religious, in fact everyone is in someway or the other.
However find that most think and believe that only those who belief, pray visit places of worship etc. are religious.

Your opinion!

Love & rgds

 

[Wannabe Yogi]

One definition of Religion.
a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith
Religion - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Some faiths don't have a God. Having a belief system that you follow. Or a perception of reality that you live in harmony with is enough to define yourself as religious.

 

[J FREAK]

Friends,

Personal understanding is that being religious has nothing to do with any belief in god. In such a scenario even an atheist could be religious, in fact everyone is in someway or the other.
However find that most think and believe that only those who belief, pray visit places of worship etc. are religious.

Your opinion!

Love & rgds

Religion and faith are walking hand in hand. You cannot be religious in any sense if you don't have fanatic faith in whatever you so religiously follow. - Atheism has become a religious faith and its own god, and so doing killed itself.

Any ritual is only a manefistation of a religious frame of mind - like buying a ticket to a balgame by a sport fanatic.

 

[Onkara]

Hi Zenzero
It is nice to read your opinion.
I would agree, being religious does not imply a belief, but rather a way of being.
I would add however that it is not the negation of God nor the affirmation that makes a person religous, but their personal relationship with life and all that share it which distinguishes the religious from those who are not.

 

[zenzero]

Friend Wannbe Yogi,

Some faiths don't have a God. Having a belief system that you follow. Or a perception of reality that you live in harmony with is enough to define yourself as religious.
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Faiths are again created by someone, rest follows blindly.
Agree with the second part that when someone lives in harmony can be stated to be religious.

Love & rgds

 

[zenzero]

Friend J FREAK,

Religion and faith are walking hand in hand. You cannot be religious in any sense if you don't have fanatic faith in whatever you so religiously follow. - Atheism has become a religious faith and its own god, and so doing killed itself.

The response above is a pointer to the fact that *faith* is rooted in the mind and anything that arises in the mind creates duality and so a bridge remains.

Love & rgds

 

[zenzero]

Friend Onkarah,

I would add however that it is not the negation of God nor the affirmation that makes a person religous, but their personal relationship with life and all that share it which distinguishes the religious from those who are not.

Great Understanding!

Love & rgds

 

[Sunstone]

Religion and faith are walking hand in hand. You cannot be religious in any sense if you don't have fanatic faith in whatever you so religiously follow.

Some faiths are not faiths. Please explain where the faith is in Taoism?

 

[John D]

Friend J FREAK,



The response above is a pointer to the fact that *faith* is rooted in the mind and anything that arises in the mind creates duality and so a bridge remains.

Love & rgds

Then it must be assumed that religion is a process of the mind and has nothing to give to the spirit or soul of man ? ( or you have to believe man has no soul)

Because I found in myself a dual existance - one trap within the other ( not mad !!), I tend to identify with the trapped one - which I realise is the real me The "mind" is the Warden of this prison of mine. My "faith" and hope or not found in the Warden but in my abbility to one day walk through the walls of this prison.

 

[zenzero]

Friend John D,

Then it must be assumed that religion is a process of the mind and has nothing to give to the spirit or soul of man ? ( or you have to believe man has no soul)

For the moment can only state that *There are various layers within each forms including man and all true but still they are create limitations not to be attached to including that 'soul' you mention*.

Yes, Besides whatever you see even your own self are nothing but *perceptions* of your own mind and all perceptions are rooted in the mind and again is within certain boundaries . Limitlessness cannot be contained within limits except as an example for understanding.

LOve & rgds

 

[Wannabe Yogi]

Religion and faith are walking hand in hand. You cannot be religious in any sense if you don't have fanatic faith in whatever you so religiously follow. - Atheism has become a religious faith and its own god, and so doing killed itself.

Any ritual is only a manefistation of a religious frame of mind - like buying a ticket to a balgame by a sport fanatic.

Baptism is a religious ritual. Is every Christian a fanatic?

 

[Wannabe Yogi]

Friend Wannbe Yogi,
Faiths are again created by someone, rest follows blindly.

Not every person of faith follows blindly. Are all people who follow the path laid down by the lord Buddha bind ? A good teacher or faith is self destructive of all beliefs and conceptions. By following the path we transcend the path.
Like Swami Vivekananda said "it's good to be born in a church but it's bad to die in one."

 

[zenzero]

Friend Wannabe Yogi,

Not every person of faith follows blindly. Are all people who follow the path laid down by the lord Buddha bind ? A good teacher or faith is self destructive of all beliefs and conceptions. By following the path we transcend the path.
Like Swami Vivekananda said "it's good to be born in a church but it's bad to die in one."

You missed the point.
Follow itself means you are blind.
*Be your own light*; everyone would have spoken about that.
Also if you followed Vivekananda's words; it also means that one should not die in a church be free of it.

Love & rgds

 

[dust1n]

- Atheism has become a religious faith and its own god, and so doing killed itself.

:hardlaugh: :hardlaugh: hardlaugh:

 

[dust1n]

Friends,

Personal understanding is that being religious has nothing to do with any belief in god. In such a scenario even an atheist could be religious, in fact everyone is in someway or the other.
However find that most think and believe that only those who belief, pray visit places of worship etc. are religious.

Your opinion!

Love & rgds

To be religious, one merely need to expand consciousness in as many actions as possibly achievable.

 

[Mohammed1]

Friends,

Personal understanding is that being religious has nothing to do with any belief in god. In such a scenario even an atheist could be religious, in fact everyone is in someway or the other.
However find that most think and believe that only those who belief, pray visit places of worship etc. are religious.

Your opinion!

Love & rgds

May be it is right.
But the true religion only one: to believe and follow the real God.

 

[dust1n]

May be it is right.
But the true religion only one: to believe and follow the real God.

Yup, to be 'truly' religious, one needs to believe and follow the 'real' god.
Anyone else is 'falsely' religious.

 

[zenzero]

Friend Mohammad1,
Welcome to RF!

May be it is right.
But the true religion only one: to believe and follow the real God.

Then could you explain to everyone, what or who is that *real* God and obviously which is the *unreal* God that you speak off?

If you are unable to bring out clearly the two distinctly then surely you have lot of homework at hand.

Best Wishes.
Love & rgds

 

[England my lionheart]

I religiously go to the Rose and Crown every Sunday lunchtime for a few pints

 

[Mr Cheese]

Friends,

Personal understanding is that being religious has nothing to do with any belief in god. In such a scenario even an atheist could be religious, in fact everyone is in someway or the other.
However find that most think and believe that only those who belief, pray visit places of worship etc. are religious.

Your opinion!

Love & rgds

etymologicaly the word religion means to tie, to bind

religion therefore is about bringing people together....arguably toward God
as such then a religion requires this, as such then arguably, an atheist cannot be religious.

Although people can do things "religiously"...