What do you believe? Options

[Badman]

I haven't seen one of these yet... and it always seems to generate a firestorm of conflict so...

What religion are you or what are your beliefs?

I looked up Live fans from facebook and found that most were christians. Although, most people are I just want to know what the real fans think.

[slainte]

Thank you for your insights.

And, NO I don't need a religion to celebrate the importance of females and it maybe hypocritical and of course it is feministic. Let's just say as a "cradle" Catholic and with the views of the Universal Catholic Church and the Pope, I have had many doubts and more answers than questions as of late. All comes into perspecctive when my daughter asks why she can not be a priest. And, yes, I still feel that most organized religions are male-dominated.

Btw, what religion or set of beliefs were you referring to, torcatofan, that are stupid and female-dominated? Wicca?

And, I don't think you went far enough back in history. The Celts were more of an equaltarian society prior to the advent of an angrarian society.

[torcatofan]

Thank you for your insights.

And, NO I don't need a religion to celebrate the importance of females and it maybe hypocritical and of course it is feministic. Let's just say as a "cradle" Catholic and with the views of the Universal Catholic Church and the Pope, I have had many doubts and more answers than questions as of late. All comes into perspecctive when my daughter asks why she can not be a priest. And, yes, I still feel that most organized religions are male-dominated.

Btw, what religion or set of beliefs were you referring to, torcatofan, that are stupid and female-dominated? Wicca?

And, I don't think you went far enough back in history. The Celts were more of an equaltarian society prior to the advent of an angrarian society.

You are right that religions are male-dominated, but we can change that. If your daughter wants to be a priest, she probably won't be able to in her lifetime, but she CAN do something about females becoming priests in the future. You don't see a huge movement because no one has started one.

All I'm saying here is that we need to encourage our children to believe in what they want to believe in and not let some "set of standards" imposed by a religion thousands of years ago discourage them from pursuing a passion.

As for female-dominated religion, I was just generalizing that females shouldn't gravitate toward female-dominated religions just because they don't like a male-dominated religion. That's hypocritical.

So maybe this is all really easy for me to say because I'm a male, but I have some very strong views on religion (and feminism too) and I've done lots of reading and exploration so I ain't no idiot.