Dragon Religion/s

[dfangd]

The way I see it, all religion is fiction *shrugs*

You don't need a set-in-stone path to follow... maybe creating your own individual belief system would be more effective than following someone else's route to spiritual salvation.
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[Jasriella]

Thats pretty much the route I have been taking for the past few years. Feels a lot better than living in fear of being sent to hell for my sins or something else that I had nothing to do with.
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I am trapped between heaven and hell. My wings carry me upon the winds. Above lies heaven, below hell. Yet I must land in hell to soar in heaven. I am a Dragon!

[the dragon of eternity]

[SkieFireYokana]

Religion, as legally defined, is simply not true in my eyes. Reality is a construct of the mind; a perception built up by all information encountered in the past. Mind you, religion is (I'm fairly certain, don't quote me on this) legally defined as a bunch of people with belief in the same thing. For instance, lots of people believe in a single God who loves everyone except for the people who don't do what he tells them to, and he certainly tells them things which violate their personal rights, so those people believing in that single God share a religion. That idea would lump Christians and Muslims and Jews in the same boat, and I actually concur on this point. They're all pretty much the same thing.

Religion, as defined above doesn't exist, for one thing--nobody has the same idea of any religion, because every religion has enough rules and such that you can pick the ones you should follow and ignore all the rest. The Bible has plenty of contradictions like those, mostly between the old Testament (which, even as a Christian, I never ever believed to be LITERALLY true, only really an allegory) and the new. I'm no expert on the Qur'an, of course, so I can't point out where the contradictions are... but come on. You've got people saying four wives is fine and killing people for believing in a different invisible man is a good thing. You're going to find these contradictions in every religion. Everything depends on what you want to go along with, what label you want to stick on yourself, and who you want to persecute.

So... really, if you are going to be religious, sit down one night and say "Let's do this," crack your knuckles, and start writing a list of morals and ethics. You can put anything you don't like in there; for instance, lets make playing violent videogames a sin. You won't find this one in the Bible, but some parents think it's implicit anyway. I don't see how. Anyway, so you can't blow some digital guy's head off with a shotgun. Let's also make eating salad with any part of an animal in it a taboo. Make this part really vague, that way you can fudge your way and say you could eat them separate, and decide it doesn't matter and eat it anyway. Then there's the afterlife. Don't bother with making up consequences, you're not making this religion for anyone but you; just go straight to the good stuff. So... sheep. Let's make the afterlife full of sheep that you get to count, and nothing else for eternity. But counting the sheep is not a punishment; rather, you feel an inordinate pleasure whenever you reach a prime number or a multiple of two. The first eight sheep are the ones to get you hooked on the practice; that many in a row will never ever happen again. But you'll eventually reach infinity and be rewarded for counting your sheep by having the pleasure go on for the rest of eternity. Too bad it already ended. Oh, and in this field with the sheep you get to count, there is also a gun so you can put yourself out of your misery. Say that the religion is draconic and make it the dragon who puts you in the field with the sheep, and you have your religion focusing on dragons. :P

In other words, if you want one, make it yourself.
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[Jasriella]

I myself could be considered agnostic to a certain degree but at the same time I've incorporated many religions into my own. I guess that would be because my dragon side of me is more anylitic of things and tries to look at everything from multiple angles. I have taken that dragon side of me and made it my own. So when I look at Buddhism, I see that one needs to have more self control and respect for living things. When I look at Christianity, I see that one needs to live a virtuous life. When I look at the Samurai, I see that discipline and honor need to be a core foundation in ones virtues. I have also taken from each religion the deities that they worship. I respect each deity although I do not believe them to be my own. Perhaps they are all the same one but and that one has chosen to reveal itself in different ways to each group. Perhaps they are each separate gods that apply to their own group. I do not know and will most likely never know. What I do know is that there is at least one higher being, a creator of the universe. Perhaps there are more, perhaps that higher being created many smaller higher beings that act as our gods. One cannot fully know until their day of judgment or one of those higher beings decides to reveal itself to you.
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I am trapped between heaven and hell. My wings carry me upon the winds. Above lies heaven, below hell. Yet I must land in hell to soar in heaven. I am a Dragon!

[Hyraxylos]

[Namhias]

I've never heard so much BS and wrong conclusions stacked together, it just makes my eyes hurt...
No offense to those who believe all of this though.

[eelukathe]