Religions/Beliefs of Browncoats
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Christianity teaches that the body is the new temple, because God now dwells within, and It should eb taken care of and respected.
May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one, so I joined starfleet and was stationed at the SGC to fight the covenant, whos gate happens to be down, and through which I must cast the ring from whence it came. It was our last best hope for peace but it failed so millions of voices cried out and were suddenly silent but there was no spoon and also no fate but what we make for ourselves.
-I thought of that in the shower
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I mean, where here aren't we? Why do we have to have wars and arguments over how we got here?
IMO, the wars and arguments are because some people think so strongly in their beliefs that they feel the need to spread them and (in the case of wars only. i would hope the arguments wouldn't take people that far) take out anyone who does not abide by their own religion. I don't think that's right, but people are all different and this world seems to be based on a sole person's perception (at least to that person). If people have wars over it...there's no way i can stop that. The discussions however, like this one, IMO are to explore the different possibilities. Some think only by questioning things can we find out universal truths. Some think only by exploring all the possibilities, not to be right or wrong, but to simply look at things to expand knowledge and look at different views, can lead to a better existence. Some think it's just fun
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I'm a Catholic Unitarian Benedictine Buddhist(yea...one of those!), and kinda Browncoatish, too.
Mark Gorman
Meadville, PA
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That reminds me of a funny story, is it true that a few years back, a ton of Star Wars fans in Britain found the minimum number of people required for a practicing religion, and got Jedi to become a religion in the next census? I think it's true, but maybe some of our brits know more about it than I... maybe we should all put Browncoat on our censuses.... 
"But, these strong women characters?"
"Why aren't you asking 100 other guys why they don't write strong women characters?" -Joss Whedon
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I firmly beleave in God. I don't share the beliefs of the religions I have seen. And I have to admit that I don't know exactly what God has in store or how God works. Sometimes I think he puts choices along our path for us to deal with. I don't mean obstacles. Sometimes it can be a hard road and sometimes it could be wondrous. Just choices to help us see more clearly and help us to mature. In honesty it is why I like Jayne. I sat there watching him make bad and good choices. Sometimes he makes the right choice for all the wrong reasons. It seems that as the show progressed, Jayne matured from the choices he made.
Than there are times I think God just started the whole thing off like a finger painting. Just mixing all the paints together so ever imaginable color would exist.
The one thing I have dicovered after stumbling around is that we are loved and God does want the best for us. It doesn't always seem that way, but I have been taught to light a single candle instead of cursing the darkness. It took many years for me to come to this conclusion. I have heard that saying most of my life and thought it was rather foolish. Then one day I was faced with a choice. One of those choices that scared the hell out of me. But people helped through it. I didn't have to face it alone.
Just a footnote here. I don't beleave in hell. Only the one we create for ourselves.
Since I personally can't prove there is a God I don't beleave I have the right to push my faith on others.
I've read so many posts on this thread and I can't remember who said it, but math was brought up. Being in mechanical design I often use Pi for calculating the circumference of a circle. But we, in engineering, can not use the exact value. We only go to four decimal places. It is a known fact that you can not calculate the exact value of Pi. So if you can't find its true value, how can you prove it exists. So I see God as beyond logic. It is like describing color to a blind person. So how can I presuade anybody to beleave in God when I have no tools to prove of God's existance. It may be the universe itself is the grand total of existance. And there may not be anything beyond it. But that is okay, because it is what I'm doing today that matters, not if God exists or not. Treat people with respect. Do the best you can.
If someone reaches a hand out to help me I don't ask, "what are your beliefs?" Because by giving me their hand they are showing they care. And to me that is the most important thing to beleave in. To care for others.
I only wish God would have made me better at spelling and grammer. You would not beleave "pun" how long this took me to type. I spent more than half, actually a lot more than half, of my time checking my spelling. I can design hydraulic valves and construction equipement, but I can't spell a word over five letters long. And I'm sure you English teachers pull out your red pencils and correct all my bad grammer. But I hope I am clear enough to express my thoughts.
Finally, this is why I joined this site. Firefly has good values. The values I beleave in. So I knew a fansite would also share these values. You are the proof that I made the right choice.
Now you got me all mushy.
Traveler
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@ENGINEANGEL
There is a big difference between arguments and decisions. Being in a conservative California town (odd combination eh?) discussions turn in to arguments very fast. I love these discussions like the one we are having here. But when the majority of the people around you are one religion, a discussion quickly turns into a pissing match (now im talking about when *I* have conversations with people in my town).
As for the wars... no one can stop that.
Only the dead have seen an end to war ~ George Santayana
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And I understand your position, but every religion claims more or less the same thing. What it comes down to is that you have to have faith that the first person with the Torah, Quran, Bhagavad Gita, etc. actually got it from God and didn't make it up themselves. I have never seen anything to make me believe that that is true.
true, everything, to a certain level, is based on faith. There are things I could knit-pick about with some religions and how far some things go back, but you have the basic point and it always goes back to that; faith. The overall basis for all religions is faith, you have to believe in the concept underlying things or else none of it works or makes a difference. Good point. I am countered.
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Good point. I am countered.
Wow... so different from RWED...
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Originally posted by stinkingrose:
She said that she'd been at the ER with her father and someone in the next bed had been telling the nurse that she was a practicing witch. The nurse tried to get her to put something else down, and the patient refused. Our boss said she couldn't believe it, practicing witch? "I mean, what is the world coming to?" was the next phrase out of her mouth.
I felt like saying something along the lines of "you mean when people can state their religious beliefs without fear?"
Exactly.
A bit of dialogue from "The Simpsons":
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Rev. Lovejoy: You see Homer, you have friends of every faith, be they Christian, Jewish, or... Miscelaneous.
Apu: I am a Hindu. There are a hundred and seventy million of us in America alone.
Rev. Lovejoy: Isn't that super.
There are altogher too many people in America today who think of religions as "Christian/Jewish/Miscelaneous". (Which is to say, they haven't thought about it much at all.)
As for myself, I'm a born-again Herbangelist. We believe that the universe was created in late 1958 by a fat little kid named Herbie Popnecker. Any evidence of a universe before that point, including living memory, is either a test of faith by Herbie, or a deception by his ancient enemy Magical Moe, AKA "The Anti-Herbie". (We got the idea from the creationists, but they had it placed waaaaay too far back.)
On Judgement Day Herbie will appear on Hollywood Boulevard, sucking on a hard-to-get cinnamon lollypop, and pulling lightning from his nose to smite the unrightous.
"Praise Herbie and pass the buck!"
"Sugetor Sternum Natum!"
"Sanctum Molum!"
"You want I should bop you with this here lollypop?" -- Herbie Popnecker
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That is a really neat religion, RJ.
::isn't sure if that was a joke, and doesn't want to offend anybody::
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