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« on: September 09, 2021, 05:56:13 PM »

Inspired by the summary of political views thread.

Here's just a template. Feel free to add or remove things:

Religion: Protestant Christian, at least nominally.
Denomination: (if applicable)

Why do you follow this religion (or lack thereof)?
 I was brought up in it and conditioned to find anything else uncomfortable or unsettling.

God: Do you believe in God? Is there more than one God? Is this God all-knowing and all-powerful? Does God interfere in your daily life? Does God talk to you?

God is the Ultimate Reality, Creator of the Universe and the rules by which it operates. Thus mathematics, physics, and the dialectic. Obviously we cannot understand everything. Euclid's geometry is God's geometry. Newton's laws of motion are God's laws of motion. The laws of electromagnetism are His. Einstein only discovered God's laws on relativity.

Afterlife: What happens after we die? Heaven/hell? Reincarnation? Nothing whatsoever? If there are multiple versions of the afterlife (for example, heaven and hell), who goes where and what determines that?

I can't be sure, but if God exists and Spirit that seems so real somehow arrives at some destination.

If Heaven and Hell are real, then the evil-doers of our world suffer indefinitely in a very nasty place made particularly horrible by the nastiness of the souls there. You certainly don't want to go where the Nazis are! Heaven is beyond easy understanding. Just think of how clear the Inferno is and how murky the rest of the Divine Comedy is.   

One of the horrors of Hell is that one is obliged to witness the delights denied one.

Who gets to Heaven? God decides what His theology is, and we likely can't get that right. We are thus forgiven. But we are not forgiven for criminal behavior. Murderers get to experience the pain of death; rapists are raped; drunks and addicts stumble over each others; exploiters are exploited...   

Prayer: Do you pray? How often do you pray? Do you do it in a certain way? Do you pray to God (or gods) or to something else? Do you say your prayers out loud or in your head?

When it seems necessary. 

Worship: Do you go to church/mosque/synagogue/anything else? How often?

Weddings and funerals, basically.

Ghosts, spirits, angels, and demons: Do they exist? Are they present here? Have you ever seen one? Are certain people condemned to roam the earth?

No. There are and have been evil people who are the demons.

One True Path: Is your religion the only way? Do people of other faiths have equally valid beliefs or not? Are your religion's followers saved while the others are condemned for all eternity?

God is beyond understanding.

Spiritual objects: Do certain things in the earth (for example, crystals or plants) have spiritual properties?

Absolutely not.

Religious law: Do you follow religious law or morality codes? For example, fasting or abstinence until marriage? Is not doing so a sin?

No.

Spreading the word: Should it be a mission by people of your religion to spread it to as many people as possible?

It is best to witness through one's conduct.
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