Religion, What do you think of it? Options

[HyPN0]

I got the idea for making this thread from Polygamy thread. I think this may be an intresting topic.

What do you think about religion(s)? Do you belive in any kind of gods? Christian God? Alah? Buddha? Or you don't have a religion at all?

If you do stick to your religion, tell us why. If you don't belive that there are such things as gods, again tell us why.
I hope that there won't be any flames or immature behavior. I have good faith in Chorrol.com community that there won't be any hard words, or simply dissrespect towards other opinions.

So, let's start shall we?

[Ibis]

Welp, I have to admit that now I am agreeing with you guys ... after reading the msn webpage article about Mary Magdelene, woman of mystery. It seems that the first written accounts of Jesus Christ occurred about 90 years after his death by the Gnostic sect, which was pretty powerful in the fledgeling persecuted church.
But apparently, there was always a rift or jealousy between Mary Magdalene and Peter and the Gnostic account stemmed from Mary Magdalene teaching as an apostle but the account that won and that got handed down to the world, stemmed from Peter - and so it is very patriarchal and Magdalene totally disappears after the resurrection scene.

So anyway, I can see from this account of the different sects that apparently there were at least a few very different accounts of things. Interestingly though, it was a group of women disciples who cared for Jesus's financial needs. He was supposed to be quite egalitarian when it came to equality for women.
Also, it was in the 900's that Mary Magdalene was tagged a prostitute by none other than Pope Gregory in a speech at the Vatican. Pope John Paul II proclaimed in the 1980's that she was not. So even to this day, religion remains murky in it's historical content...but for me the inner message of Christ is still clear.

As is Agent Mulder's. Honest.

This post has been edited by Ibis: May 23 2006, 07:28 AM