Since this thread was empty, a topic like this seems a good ice-breaker so ya whats your faith ? what crazy sect do you follow ? But more importantly why ?

Me, I was raised a catholic but it never really took effect. I guess I lost all faith about the age of 13 when I remember accidentally seeing the priest knock over a candle on the bible and the book going up in flames. It was so funny but for me it just seemed so fake.

I agree in a way. I don't have a religion I follow myself, but my family has always tried to get me to become whatever it is that they are. When younger I was forced to go to church and all this garbage, but now that I'm older they just let me be.
I don't really care if other people have a religion as long as it isn't forced on me at all, bcause that shouldn't work that way.

Do ppl think that our generation in the UK/US are becoming less religious? maybe it's a gay metrosexual sortof thing? - that's not to say our spirituality has gone but perhaps the idea of being attached to a certain religion. I think in some cases people detatch themselves from religious because of negative images etc.

Personally i'm not religious, and nor are my family. Although all of my grandparents are/were very religious people - seemed to halter at my parents who weren't interested..

The church in the UK is having probs. Because of low turnouts lots of churches are closing - some ppl have said we're looking at future figures of one church a week!!

Im ok with other peoples beliefs but i always thought people only believe in what they either feared or wanted.

Our generation is definalty less religious if slightly religious at all. Faith was forced on alot of people which took a negative impact with people. I think the idea of religion is quickly fading

oh ya, atheism, party for one

I was raised in a christian family, and also made to go to church my whole life...all the time...Now i have huge issues with "god" and religion...i believe in god, but i am very angry with him and i am sick of all the rules, judgemental people, and condemnation. The woman i love (who i haven't spoken to in two years...b/c of parents) is a christian...and its hard to imagine she may never be with me all b/c of god and what she has been taught...she thinkgs homosexuality is wrong...a sin. and i don't...at all...anyways...i just hope everything works out....

i, myself, am roman catholic. i find no solace in my religion whatsoever, and have grown to hate it over time. there's nothing quite the same as sitting in an uncomfortable pew, next to a smelly old guy and an old lady hacking up her lungs, while listening to your priest / bishop / authority figure condemn homosexuals, nonbelievers, demonize women and people who are different...i've grown to hate organized religion. there's just not a point to alot of them. its sad to know my church hates people like me...i really think homosexuality, among other things, is hated so much in the religious word, because it all comes back to people fearing what they cannot explain or accept. if i believed in god, i would not believe in him/her condemning poeple for being gay or lesbian or bi or anything, just as i couldnt see blue-eyed people being damned. my boyfriend brought up the point that he sees churches teaching about god through fear, and he believes that's wrong, and that god should be taught through love. i couldn't agree more.

I define myself as Christian, Protestant to be more specific, but no more specific than that because of my multi-denominational upbringing. I disagree with the ideas of Catholicism, in that they are too strict and I am an avid sinner even by the loosest of religious belieifs. Why do I say this as if I do not care, because truth is I do not. The whole make-up of my alleged religion is forgiveness and acceptance. As far as I can tell, the religious youth that were not brought up horribly conservative aren't homophobic in the sense that they hate gay people as much as they are afraid that they are gay as well.
I was brought up Mehodist and then Baptist, but I find a room full of people who are instilled with the holy spirit to be a distraction. I like a calmer method of teaching. I experimented with other denominations, but found them to be equally disappointing. I guess the fault in my sense of religion is that I prefer to observe and attempt to understand, not be part of it, or at least directly into it. I cannot jump up and down and be excited about something that I at times disagree with.
I guess I'm still religious in the hopes that I can reform the church at least a little bit. There are those with similar beliefs. I don't want to believe that I'm going to hell for being gay, even if it turns out to be true, religion is supposed to be about hope. I'm not planning on attacking the church or publicly releasing my views for years to come.
That's my spin on religion. Long, eh?

Maybe people are not becoming less religious but just looking for churches that are less strict in their beliefs because the public philosophy is changing and the mainstream churches are not changing to keep up with that.

I think that may be it exactly.

Honestly i haven't been 2 church n sum time, my bad excuse 4 my family is because we're xtremely busy. however, God and i have had our differences thru my coming out, and sumtimes i dont kno whats right. sum of my best friends r very religious and very homophobic. lately ive convinced myself that there is nuthing wrong w/ being who we r, that is what God wants, but it is the world who hates us because of its misunderstandings (the way they were brought up). furthermore i dont fully rely on the bible, because of the fact that it has been translated thru many different languages, and who's 2 say that corrupt officials, such as bishops and priests in the medieval ages, havent added a thing or 2 stating wut they want 2 believe n, such as the fact that homosexuality is wrong. not 2 mention if homosexuality is wrong then y did God create hermaphrodites. n conclusion, i pity those of u who lack faith n God, the 1 that i still try 2 keep n my life, however many times n my life i may change. 4 i like u have become a skeptic. God help us all!!!