What Role does Religion Play in Your Life?

Why do you/don’t you believe?

  1. Faith
  2. If we don't believe anything we will be fearless and we may do sins.. If we have some beliefs then we will think before we act... Because there will be a fear... It also gives some motivation to do good works if we believe in God...
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  4. I believe because i have faith on god.
  5. AS I MENTIONED ABOVE RELIGION LEADS PEOPLE TO LIVE A LIFE FRUITFUL WHICH HELPS OTHERS ALSO TO LIVE PEACEFULLLY AND IN HARMONY.
  6. No opinion
  7. imbibed from birth
  8. My parents used to...so I also believe
  9. I don't see the existence of deities as logical and none of the explanations given by any religion are sufficient evidence for me to believe them.
  10. To be honest, soemtimes I get the feeling I'm the only one alive which occupies this peculiar lonely position, that is, having embraced an unnamed faith not because I have historically refrained from religion, but rather because religion has refrained from me. It has become much more productive for me, to embrace the Name of God, by hearing His words, and seeking to be as obedient as I can to His teachings and thereby giving definition to my personal faith, than to have it placed in a denominational category where it would incumbent upon me to have my faith defined by others. At least this way, I am not tethered to institutional dogma, or to long held traditional positions which have little chance of future review or inspection. My past scriptural training has been influenced by both Jewish and Christian sources, and it is there, in that space between them that I currently find myself and it is at times a very lonely space. I don't see this faith as a combination of the two per se, but rather the logical progression of scriptural reason, when given an environment free from institutional doctrinal restraints. I have found it much easier and more beneficial to question God, than to question man. I do think the personage which walked this earth 2,000 years ago was, and is the Messiah, but I don't think either Christianity or Judaism has an accurate understanding of what was at the core of his ministry, or what he was about. In fact, I would go so far as stating, when the Messiah comes, it will be a Messiah in which Christianity and Judaism will not be familiar or expecting.