"Atheists Searching For Their Place in Heavily Catholic Philippines"

[ghosthunter]

The Philippines also has a long way to go in terms of tolerance. People take their religion to the point similar to a racist...

... sadly, this is so true.

[uls]

There is a correlation why countries with a better ranking in education typically have more atheists (and on-the-fence agnostics).

And since we recently topped a survey on the number of God-believers, it just goes to show how far we need to go.

correct

lack of education = ignorance = reliance on religion for answers

[uls]

Study: Millennials Rejecting Religious Doctrine | Religion | English

April 27, 2012

Study: Millennials Rejecting Religious Doctrine

Findings of the Millennial Values Survey, a joint survey of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), and Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, indicate that many of the youngest millennials - members of the so called "millennial generation" - are leaving their childhood faith and ending up mostly unaffiliated.

Around one quarter of respondents said they don't identify with any religion, more than twice the 11 percent raised in households without any particular faith.

According to Dr. Robert Jones, PRRI's CEO and one of the study's lead researchers, this group is changing the way Americans view and practice religion.

"Basically all the varieties of Christian religion are in negative territories," said Jones, adding that Catholics and white mainline Protestants saw the largest losses away from childhood religious identification.

A Complicated Relationship

"Millennials kind of have a complicated relationship with religion," said Abigail Clauhs, one of a group of university students from around the country invited to be present at the survey's release.

"In my own personal experience dealing with other millennials my age, there's a lot of those kinds of stories of 'Well, I was raised like this, but I am now this, or I'm not religious at all,'" she said. "There's a lot of shifting, and people don't tend to be as committed to one strict set of doctrines or dogmas, even if they might be spiritual still."

Clauhs, a religion major at Boston University, was raised by a southern Baptist father and a Roman Catholic mother.

"I actually identify as Unitarian Universalist now," she said, explaining with a chuckle that "you're allowed to believe what you want."

Christianity Too 'Judgmental'

Only 23 percent of the survey's respondents said they believe the Bible is the word of God and should be taken literally. And while 76 percent agreed with the statement that Christianity "has good values and principals," more than six in ten said the way the faith is practiced today is "judgmental" and "anti-gay."

Jones said it may not be surprising that millennials are less likely to attend church than older Americans.

"Even on very basic questions like the nature of God, for example, we see millennials much less likely to believe in a personal God that one can have a relationship with, and much more likely to believe in a kind of God as an impersonal force," he said.

[pop3corn]

guys chill muna tayo, 7 mins. intermission relaxxx ...

[CoDer]

^ Wala namang problema kung maniwala ka o hindi, for as long as you don't start attacking other people's faith. I see that you are not the hostile type to be fair with you.

No one forces people to believe in God, its up to you if you will embrace it or not. Kaya nga may freewill eh.

[uls]

These issues and many others make it really hard to understand God. But I still go to the church and sometimes pray thinking that what if God is real and when I die, what if eternal life/ eternal damnation is true?

eto sasagot sayo ng mga pastor dito

Ecclesiastes 11:5

Just as you cannot understand the path of the wind or the mystery of a tiny baby growing in its mother's womb, so you cannot understand the activity of God, who does all things.

Isaiah 55:8

"My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts," says the LORD. "And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.

so... Psalm 46:10

"Be still, and know that I am God."

[uls]

tama ba mga pastor?

hehehe

[galant E SS]

eto sasagot sayo ng mga pastor dito

Ecclesiastes 11:5


Isaiah 55:8


so... Psalm 46:10

pwede ka na ngang mag-pastor Brother Uls.

[uls]

pwede ka na ngang mag-pastor Brother Uls.

hehe

grabe kasi bible study noong high school

[galant E SS]

^ Wala namang problema kung maniwala ka o hindi, for as long as you don't start attacking other people's faith. I see that you are not the hostile type to be fair with you.

No one forces people to believe in God, its up to you if you will embrace it or not. Kaya nga may freewill eh.

Yes, because I respect other people's belief and/or religion. Freedom of religion includes Satanism, atheism, agnosticism and free thoughts. I open my mind for different views, and nothing else matters.

[uls]

gusto ni Jesus yung may childlike faith

kaya huwag na madaming tanong. di ka makapasok sa heaven kung madami ka tanong

Mark 10:13-16

13 People were bringing little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them, but the disciples rebuked them. 14 When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. 15 Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” 16 And he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them.

[yapoy86]

gusto ni Jesus yung may childlike faith

kaya huwag na madaming tanong. di ka makapasok sa heaven kung madami ka tanong

Mark 10:13-16

it is because children does not have a corrupt mind..

eh di ba mga bata nga ang maraming tanong??

[Monseratto]

gusto ni Jesus yung may childlike faith

kaya huwag na madaming tanong. di ka makapasok sa heaven kung madami ka tanong

Mark 10:13-16

Ganitong unquestionable faith gusto ng mga religious leaders natin. No different from what's practiced in North Korea. But some end up questioning that faith when they start seeing conflicting facts from what they learn from the Church.

[uls]

o nga pala, baka di familiar mga pastor dito sa mga verses na yan

[uls]

it is because children does not have a corrupt mind..

eh di ba mga bata nga ang maraming tanong??

it's about faith like a child

children believe without question

ganyan gusto ni God sa mga followers niya

Matthew 18:2-4

And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

[uls]

ibig sabihin ni chua_riwap sa "Kapatid" mga INC

chua_r, mas kalaban kasi ng INC mga katoliko kesa mga non-believer

[Harangody]

ibig sabihin ni chua_riwap sa "Kapatid" mga INC

chua_r, mas kalaban kasi ng INC mga katoliko kesa mga non-believer

Aside from taking money, diyan magaling ang INM.

[safeorigin]

Can't we have discussions like this?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-KVf444Kyc]Intro To Philosophy 4: Truth #4 - Religions - YouTube[/ame]

[ghosthunter]

Can't we have discussions like this?

Intro To Philosophy 4: Truth #4 - Religions - YouTube

The problem with discussing it like that (in the Philippines), the people who are "affected" by it would be rallying out on the streets before the end of the video, demanding for the blood of the guy and his first born to be sacrificed to their "god" for appeasement.

[shadow]

Kaya ayaw ko sumali halfbreed Kasi ako...

I believed in god since I went to catholic school and brought up that way but at the same time I also question a lot of things in the bible and science explanation make sense to me..