Do you follow your religion from a logical viewpoint or one of blind faith?
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BOTH ............ and it's possible, trust me
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1- if you choose the wrong belief, you will end up in hell.\n    {there is only one true religion that you should follow.}\n \n2-yes, I thought :what if I was wrong? and there is another belief  \n   which is right .\n\n3-if I'm truly convinced that I 'm on the wrong path , I 'll change it ,\n   no matter  what the risks are.\n \n4-I spent years and years searching for the truth,and thanks to \n   Allah Almighty that I found the right path.
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Well, faith can be derived through an authoritarian or a rational approach....although one understands that it starts out as one and moves to the other.  One can use reason to butress faith (as many religions do).  \n\nAgain, one must juggle the semantics of the question.  What does one mean by "reason"?  If one accepts that a person who reasons would use an empirical approach to gaining all knoweledge, then there is a conflict between the two terms based on epistemology.\n\nIn my opinion, the conflict between faith and reason lies entirely in the fact that faith requires a man to forgoe reason and rely on dogma.  This prevents a human being from using all of his/her senses to find out for themselves.  So, in short...the answer is yes, although with reservation as I also believe that reason is used with faith-based systems as well.
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No. I am not a really big religious person but i still believe that if someone is, that is a major life decision and they should believe in what they think is best. Not believe in something just because you do.
592256
I think it is important to believe in SOMETHING. Whether it is Jesus, Allah, the Jewish God, gods, or no God or gods at all. I think it is very important to make an informed decision on your belief rather than say "the world sucks, there is no God" or something similar.
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Definetely no. When you act as Religion orders you to do and think exactly what religion shows you to think, you'll never progress because you wouldn't wish to discover things, because, for every thing you wanted to know, there would be someone saying "because of God". When you use the Logic you can be both, a good person and a person who knows lots of things
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Yes, many people here follow their beliefs dogmatically, in spite of evidence countering their belief. For example, many people here will not accept evolution in spite of so much incontevertible evidence that it is true.\n\nInstead, they cling dogmatically to a story in the bible
1005014
You answered your own question but the point is well taken.  I have many friends that have told me that they don't understand how I can have so much "blind faith" (I love that term), and I usually tell them that I it took me much more "blind faith" to deny God for as many years as I did!  It's amazing how they all seem to think I'm the crazy one because I actually think somebody created me.  yet, they all believe their great grandparents are frogs! :)
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Spiritual atheism.   I progressed to that point, and this makes the most sense to me.   I choose what I believe in and fit my beliefs into one big puzzle that fits.  :-)
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Yes, I feel we should reinterpret if it makes no sense.  This is not to say we should change the meaning in order to rationalize our behavior.  If our behavior doesn't agree with spiritual teachings, that's ok.  But we should accept that they are different, and not try to make them "match".\n\nI don't feel one has to view religion/spirituality with an "all or nothing" approach.  If I like 3 things about religion X, and 4 things about religion Y, it's ok for me to believe in both.  (I realize there are people who will disagree with me, but this is how I see it for myself.)
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My not believing in god comes from me. I was raised to think, believe whatever I wanted. I was exposed through my life to most religions, beliefs, sciences, and theories. After looking at all, I chose. I used logic, and observations to make my decision, atheism was the choice. I came into life a clean mind with no beliefs, and over time made my own, but only after many years. Most of the theories I believe are my own, and I am the only one who believes them. The only influence on my beliefs is me, my thought.
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I agree!  However, I also see the Bible as the inspired Word of God, thus if we follow it only and don't add or subtract anything, then we are following a religion made up by God himself.  Problem solved.
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I believe in both but, when we analyze our lives in relationship with the universe there is still MUCH we don't know and understand. So, looking at in from a non-religious and non-scholarly point-of-view; trying to make sense of it which you believe...doesn't much make sense. So pick one, both, or neither and you'll be RIGHT!!!
746014
Blind faith implies not questioning the source, be it God or Charles Manson. And blind faith IS bad, for Religion, for Society, and for individuals.\n\nI have faith, educated, researched faith, and answers to all my questions. There is a diffrence between educating yourself on the source, and following without question.\n\nGood Question, and good point as well.
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My views ar based on logic and the data that I can find. If I discover new data that contradicts a view I've had, then I change my view. If I find a mistake, then I change my view.\n\nMany do not, and continue to ardently support what they believe in even if all the data show that the belief is wrong. This is the main reason why I feel belief is a dangerous thing to have.\n\nWhen you use belief as a basis for judgement, it doesn't matter if your belief is true or not. It makes it "right". From there, anything goes. For an example, see terrorists and Iraq.\n\nThe key here should be that people should use critical thinking skills to formulate a logical conclusion based on available facts.\n\nBut it's just too easy to use belief and emotion.\n\n~X~
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I was baptized Catholic as a baby and raised that way throughout my early childhood. After a while my family stopped going to church, and I went on a period of self-exploration. I studied different religious ideas, beliefs, doctrines, etc. and pieced together what made logical, rational, reasonable sense in my opinion. From that I formed my own personal path. I followed it, and preferred not being a part of organized religion because creating my own path meant that my faith could grow and change as I grew and changed (and learned more) instead of remaining fixed and never evolving into something better.\n\nThen a friend of mine introduced me to Wicca. It takes a lot of work and study (I am still), but it allows solitary paths. Its lack of dogma also allows for your faith to grow and change. The more I learned about it, the more it coincided with the beliefs I'd already put together through my soul-searching. Since then I have considered myself a solitary Wiccan.\n\nI think this is the proper way to go about finding religion. Everyone's always saying things like, "I've found religion," or (specifically), "I've found Jesus," but more often than not, IT finds THEM. They believe it because they were raised to believe it, and/or people told them to. They didn't find it for themselves, or even bothered to figure it out. I formed a religion to fit me, rather than conforming myself to fit a religion.
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I've been on the other side where I thought that people who didn't believe in god must feel lost.  (I was raised to think they are evil.)  So, I can kinda understand why some religious individuals think that non-believers feel some sort of void or are immoral.  However, I also view that stance as an immature belief.  It doesn't take a lot of looking around to realize that agnostics and atheists are very content with their worldviews and live ethical lives.