So you say He didn't do away with ANY law
So YOU keep/observe them all.
Except earlier you said we DON'T have to
You are very confused. And you're a liar
Never said anything of the sort. And, you make an awful lot of assumptions about me. No, I'm not a Christian.
When I started out life, I was baptized as a Lutheran, but, my mother ended up getting married to a Catholic, and I was sent to Catholic school for a short time (2nd and 3rd grade). She ended up getting divorced from him, and shortly after died in a car crash. Because I was orphaned, I ended up in foster care and was bounced around between a few different families. Each of them belonged to a different sect of Christianity, and each time I was moved to a different family, I was told that I was going to hell if I didn't believe as they did. Pretty heavy trip for a kid, being told that what I had previously learned was wrong, and now I had to learn a new way of belief. Ran away from foster care in my late teens and went to live with my Grandparents, who weren't exactly religious, but they did believe in God and also believed that one should always try to do right by their fellow human. So, I turned my back on Christianity and just decided to follow the moral beliefs that my Grandparents had taught me (don't steal, don't lie, treat others decently, etc.), as they seemed to be workable.
Drifted around for a few years as a young adult until I came across Taoist beliefs, and decided that that particular philosophy worked for me, so I decided to become spiritual rather than religious.
Today, I believe that there is a Supreme Being, Higher Power, God, or whatever you want to call it. I believe that we should help our fellow humans wherever possible, as well as believe that stealing, lying, murder and other things are not beneficial for anyone, especially myself. I don't exactly adhere to dietary "laws", because I believe that modern technology makes most of what we eat safe to consume, but I will exercise caution when eating things that need caution. One example is that while I am very fond of raw oysters, I won't eat them in months that don't have an "R", as those are the warm months and oysters are filter feeders, meaning they filter whatever is in the water. Bacteria and other nasties will thrive in warm months, meaning that eating oysters in months that don't have an "R" in them can result in a greater chance of me eating something that could be infected.
Circumcision? Wasn't given a choice in the matter as I was circumcised at birth. Am I butt hurt about my parents decision? No, because with the research that I've seen on it, I believe it is a good idea, as it's cleaner and there is less chance of some kind of infection than if I wasn't.
How do I feel about religion? I came across a thought once that said "all paths lead to the top of the mountain". ALL religions believe in some form of the Golden Rule, all of them believe in some form of the Commandments (don't steal, lie or murder), and all of them believe in some form of God, whether you call It Allah, God, Tao, Jehovah, etc. They also all believe that what we do now will have some effect on what comes later.
So, I believe that religion is a stepping stone, or pathway to get to God, but I also believe that God is too large to be confined to just one religion, so I look for where there are similarities rather that looking at the differences to understand God in my own way a bit better.
As far as the dogma of religion (the restrictions that it imposes on the individual)? Not a fan.
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