well, two days down, two months to go...

[tygerwilde]

well, it\'s really hard to describe, we don\'t actually have to worship anything. the creator doesn\'t require it. Some still do however, especially former muslims and christians. I pray to the creator sometimes, but mostly I don\'t bother.

Some druids worship nature itself, as it\'s an icon of neutrality, some things die in order for others to live, it\'s all part of a circle, all that good stuff.

I feel that we need to try to live in balance with nature. Earth only has so many resources. no matter how often christians say that they\'re supplied by god; if we use too much, eventually, we\'ll run out.

[Monketh]

I\'m slightly leaning towards christianism, but mostly I have no clue where to go.  There are hundreds of thousands of religions, any of which could be true.  There\'s no way to test them, if you die then are permitted to live again and tell your story then people will call you a lunatic.  So, I\'ll try to be good to other people and enjoy myself as much as possible.  I figure I\'ll sort it out in the end.

Tyger, did you find any religions that actually describe how the universe and why it\'s expanding started while you were looking?

[tygerwilde]

well, there are are christians who think that all science is part of his greater plan, that the big bang was initiated by him

[Psycon]

Christianism is an old religion. There was no science those days. And the point of a religion is not to teach people science. That\'s why there are lots of christians theese days. The point of a religion is to teach people how to behave, give some basic rules. People can\'t live without rules because we are social beeings.

So one should choose a religion which fits the most of the rules currently followed. That\'s why all religions have sinners. Nobody\'s perfect.

[tygerwilde]

dude, my man; spellcheck why don\'tcha!!!

and no, christianity is one of the newer religions, being that it\'a less than 2000 years old(you read that right...), most religions are roughly 3 and a half to four thousand years

[Psycon]

First I wanna appolgise for my poor skills in typing/gramar hope you\'ll understand what i\'m trying to say.

Chirtianity is quite old though, 2003 years. And it\'s basis are in judaism whch is even older. Anyway my point is that 2003 yers ago was no real sience and a religion doesn\'t need to teach people sience.

[Xalthar]

actually science has been around for a LONG time... the ancient greek have been philosofying for a good many years before christianity..

they discovered a lot of mathematical evidences and physical laws.. so science was around before christ..

And one of the bad things, religions such as christianity adds to our community, is strife and sorrow since its moral codex tends to be rather twisted...

[tygerwilde]

actually, it\'s less than 2003 years old man, our calendar is based off of christs supposed birth, but it couldn\'t have been 2003 years ago, because he was born during a roman census year, the closest were during modern 8B.C. and 2A.D. however, the cristian faith wasn\'t born until after his death. which is supposedly 38 years later

given these facts, christianity couldn\'t be any older than 1,973 years.

like I said, barring the modern religious groups that believe that aliens are our pimp daddys, christianity is the youngest religion in exsistence

[mcclane]

>>I forget the author, but it was part of the lewellyn collection. in essence it was a textbook that explained the histories of the gaelics, the ways of the celtic shamans, natural order and balance.

History of the Gaels

Druidism is not really a religion as most people see it and what they practicised is long forgotten and can never be returned. We know very little about them and their ways today.

Druids were the wisemen, the teachers and it took years to become one. It was more law then it was religion (Check up Brehon Laws) and under it there were many classes of men including a class which were as good as slaves but the important thing about it was that even though these classes ranged in power, honour was such an important factor in their way of life that no higher class would dishonour themselves by mistreating a lower class and a lower class could call on that to help them against a higher class.

eg > If a man of higher power then you owed you something then you had the right under law to go to his house and starve yourself to death on his doorstep. If you died he was dishonoured.

[Moogie]

Ummm... thanks for that. But this conversation died 2 years ago. You\'re a bit late.