personally...i dont want to shape my life through religion...i feel so confined...but i have grown up around religion...i was a steady church goer for about a year...but i guess church and the bible couldnt persuade me...my dad is a heavy buddhist...but he never forced his beliefs upon me...i respect him for that. he let me find my own way. well...my way is...live my own life the way i want to...
heres my theory...no offense to anyone
at the time the bible was writen...there wasnt much technology or science(humans needed an answer for being there and then...so someone wrote a big story on how the universe and humans came about...and throughout those naive times...people followed this book...people searched for an answer, and people took the short cut by believing in a book. and dinosaurs was not known to man so they were not included...
and people of the east had their buddhism(which isnt really a "god" based religion, but rather a teaching of life...) and throughout time people have followed the bible and push away science. i personally believe in darwins theory of evolution...cause it makes sense.
and i live life by my own standards...if i dont believe in hell, then i wont go to hell...
what happens when we die? well...either we are reborn in to anything...doggy, cat, 1 celled organism...etc etc(we never know...kinda like a person with multiple personalities...schizophrenic...) or we just fall into eternal slumber...
heaven...sure it'll be nice...but i wouldnt want to follow life by a book just to have a ticket there...rather live my own life how i want to(within the boundaries of the law...sometimes...)
and i like to sleep in on sundays after a long nite of partying
well...thats just my thoughts on religion...
i respect everyones personal ideas and religious aspects, people live life differently...but i hate it when people knock on your door trying to make you follow a book or chase you down at an airport asking for donations...