Leap of Faith: A Spiritual Invitation

[author_by_night]

In today's world, sharing your beliefs is taboo. If you do share them, you are judged, you are told not to share them so loudly, and there are hateful people who actually do horrible things to people of different faiths than themselves.

A few years ago, I did a Livejournal Invitation wherein people shared their beliefs. The purpose was to express your beliefs - whether Christianity, Islam, Taoism, or even Atheism - without fear of condemnation, without fear of judgement. I learned so much about my flisters, and about faiths I knew little about or had never heard of at all. I am going to open the invitation once more.

Say anything, anything at all. And your beliefs do not even have to be specific to a religion - if you believe in reincarnation, if you believe in ghosts, if you believe in parallel universes... those may not necessarily be tied to a religion, (although they may be), but they are still beliefs, and I'd like to hear about them. 

One warning, however - I will state that this is not a debate. We are not here to condemn other beliefs - only to express our own.

Comments

[discord-harmony.livejournal.com]

I won't writie a long dissertation, but I will write a few things that I normally wouldn't advertise.

I inherantly believe in people.
I believe that everything works out for a reason, but it isn't necessarily the work of a higher being. I think the world just works that way.
I believe there has to be good and evil, not just one or the other.
I believe that people fall in love with a person, not a gender.
I believe that the Bible is a historical text, and while can provide some basis in religion, should be treated as a work like the Iliad, Odyssey, Aenid, Gilgamesh, etc. rather than an absolute doctrine of a religion.
I believe that whomever created the world set a fabric of how it would work. Now this being doesn't intervene at all and just lets things happen.