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Use the entire warmup time to free-write about your experiences with religion (your own, parents, others, w/e comes to mind). Students are expected to write quietly and stay on this pages for the whole 8 minutes. If you run out of things to write about write something else, anything, just make sure you keep writing.
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I am a Medium believer in Christianity and the type that I am is seventh-day Adventist. Most religions are on Sundays, but My takes place on Saturday. We have a different point of view then most people. My mom was Catholic I believe, but she changed when she meet my dad's brother who is a bigger believer than I am. My believes there is God, but he doesn't go to Church. Jon my step dad he was i believe Catholic too, but when he meet my mom he changed too. I have been brought up with this and I plan to stick with this. I find it fun to learn about other people's religions and how they connect. My mom once spent a whole here in collage learning about religion, which she could not stop talking about.
ReplyDeleteI haven't had much experience with religion. I've never been to church. So my weekend was boring. On Friday I went to a stupid game. On Saturday I went to my friends. On Sunday I saw the weirdest movie of my life. Then I went home and I watched some of the superbowl. It wasn't that interesting because I don't understand football. So I was just bored.
ReplyDeleteI don't really know to many people in my family but the ones i do know are christians. I believe in god but i don't really go to church all the time.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I don't have much experience with religion, both my parents went to church when they were kids, but I've never been to church except for funerals and weddings. Though, I wouldn't say I'm an atheist, I do believe that there could be some sort of higher power, Or that something bigger exists and watches over us. I would like to think that there's an after life, and that we don't just disappear, but i don't believe strongly in any of it because I am not sure. I like the morals that most religions promote, And in that way I think religion is good, but I also see a dark cult like side to it.
ReplyDeleteTo sum it up, I'm really not sure about religion, and I haven't had much experience with it either.
I haven't had much experience with different religions, cultures or things such as that nature. I have been to this place called the global market and It's full of different type of cultures and religions. They have all these different type of foods and ice cream and gifts that come from different cultures and religions.
ReplyDelete- Random but I think it would be a great experience if my school could visit it because I think it's a great experience and it's really fun!.
I used to go to church as I was a child, but as time moved on I slowly began to not believe in God and what goes on in the bible. There may be a God out there somewhere but I don't have the strongest beliefs in him. I'm not a Atheist or anything, but I'd rather not go to church for something I barley believe in.
ReplyDeleteI really don't have much experience with religion. Me and my family don't go to church often and I'm not really interested in it that much. I consider myself to be Agnostic. Some of the people I know are Atheist and I know people who are Jewish. I personally don't have much of an opinion about religion, you can believe whatever you want to believe, I don't care. Except Scientology, that just sounds stupid!
ReplyDeleteMost of my family is christian. My grandmother is a firm believer of christianity even though she wasn't really into her whole life. For all of the other religions like confucian and hindu those are religions that i just learn about in school or on television. When i think about budhist people i always think about the statue of the fat guy. Jewish people i know they celebrate Hanukkah and the men have have to wear that cap and when they are old enough they have a bar mitzvah.
ReplyDeleteMy experience with religion is that I believe in a Christianity and I also believe in Judaic. Because, they have similarm things that make since to me. I started to believe in both religion about a year ago before it was just christian. Why I like Judaic is because my great-great grandfather was Jewish but hid it from the rest of my family because he thought the war was going to come back and my great-great grandma was in the holcost and when my mom met her she still had the numbers on her hand. I know there is a god out there because he has saved my life many times. When I was born, my mom was told that I was going to be blind and never able to walk, talk, see or even real food. But look at me now,im a great student, I have a future for myself and even though times get bad, I know god will always be there to help me.!!! :D
ReplyDeleteI started to be chritan when i was first born. I got bapitistisize when I was 8 years old I really like the religion. I love how they prise the lord.I like how you get treated in that religion. I also like when how they talk to you when they preach to you.I also like when they have paries sometimes they are always fun.
ReplyDeleteI guess my family could be considered catholic, both of my parents went to a catholic school. My father doesn't seem to actually believe in god or the like, just as I do. Both of us are interested of learning more about the bible, though, for me I particularly focus on the books of Daniel. My grandparents on my fathers side are religious, he still pray before eating. The rest of my family is practically religiously void... We're kind of relaxed on everything, often times we read the bible just to know what's in it, and not for any spiritual experience. My aunts have tried several religions, all of them unsatisfactory, and have pretty much dropped it. I'm cultivated in the christian beliefs enough to know the main base stories, and when/where it began and why. I used to go to a camp with mostly christian children, and many of them didn't want to be friends with me because I did not share the faith they had.
ReplyDeleteWhich is sad, I think, and kind of useless if you shun someone for no reason except that they don't hold the same opinion you do. Does that mean they can avoid me for not liking leek? Or maybe I shouldn't like them because they don't share my liking for botany? It's all useless, and advances get halted because of many religions.
I don't really know to many people in my family but the ones I do know are christians. I believe in god but I don't really go to church all the time. I am really mad right now I lost a bet to tycen for the superbowl. I had to give him 5 dollars because the steelers lost.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was younger I wouldn't say that I was religious, but I was definitely a believer. By the age of 10, I had already lost my best friend, and people who were very important to me to cancer. I think religion was one of the things that helped me get through the hard times.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was 12, my childhood hero and husband of my grandmother was diagnosed with cancer. He died within a week. I never said goodbye thanks to my bitch of a grandmother. I lost all grasp on religion that week. I knew that if there was a god, s/he would not had done that.
I have spent the last few years trying to regain faith, but it's impossible, I can't.
You can ask any atheist or agnostic person and they will tell you that they want to believe in a higher power, or a life after death, but as soon as you cross over there is no going back.
I think for that very reason, I like learning about faith. I like reading about cultures that have religions. I don't know if it's more out of interest in how people find faith, or if it's more out of jealousy.
Umm i haven't really had any experiences with any other religions besides my own. I know that by being in class i've learned that the religions all do different things but have a lot of similarities between the gods.
ReplyDeleteI am a Christan I became a Christan at the age of 2 year old. I have been going to the same church my whole life well I went back an forth to the church because I live in Gary. But when I visit for mouths that what church I went to every Sunday. Now that I"m older I can decide if I want to go to church or not. Now I go to church now a then but not like I use to because I don't have anyone on my but telling me to get up for church. I will always still believe in god no matter if I go to church or not.
ReplyDeleteWill I'm not supper religious.I am mixed with many different religious but I only really celebrate one,and I celebrate it on Hanukkah or Chanukah which is when you light the Minoria everyday for 8 days at sundown,because once upon a time their was only enough oil to last one day and it ended up lasting 8 days. Passover is kinda like Christmas you get presents and have a big meal, but different at the same time we eat latcas which is basically hash browns in my opinion.Theirs Matsa ball soup which is really good!!
ReplyDeleteMy parents are catholic and I don't support that I still go to church and I wish I didn't have to but I have learned to deal with it after so long that I have had to go. I don't personally support or practice any religion as I don't believe in any God. I believe in science. Maybe there is something greater but I don't believe that there is a god that is going to punish us because of unrighteous reasons. I think it is crazy that people believe that they are going to be punished and shunned to hell because of little mistakes that are made. No one is perfect and if there is a god why make us suffer like many are suffering today. More than half of the people of the world live life day by day. They don't even believe in the future because they think if they get through today is just an accomplishment.
ReplyDeleteI go to a Lutheran church called Prince of Peace in Burnsville and it's a cool church. I've gone there almost my whole life. It's not one of those boring churches with stained glass windows all over. I used to go to a private school and we had to go to church at least 2 times a month with school and it was one of the boring churches with stained glass windows and I hated it. Every Wednesday I go to my church for Senior High Ministry which is just basically like Sunday school only it's for high schoolers and it's actually fun. Me and my best friend go there so it's a lot of fun when she is there
ReplyDelete-I used to go to church every day we needed to. Then my grandpa died and he was a pastor so now I do not go to that church. Now I know you wondering that's only one what about the rest. Well that year that my grandpa had dies more of my family members have died and you have to go into a church for their ceremonies so churches kind of scare me. Now the religions thing is harder I do not believe in everything that a Christan believes in that is why I have no clue what I am.
ReplyDelete- I use to go to church all the time until one day we just stopped. well we still go on Easter, nd Christmas, but otherwise we really don't go. I would like to start going to church someday, but I would want to go to a lot of different churches to see what I believe in before I stick to one main church.
ReplyDeleteARIANA WARREN
My family and I used to always go to church every sunday, but now we go every once in a while, whenever we get the chance. Sometimes my parents work on the weekends, which makes them extremely tried! But , I like going tot church, it's sometimes fun. Sometimes I even decide to go to my friends church. The first time I had went to one of my friends church it was on third sunday! That's like when the teens like take over and stuff like that. Where like we did team building games, and people showed there different talent.
ReplyDeleteMy family is Christian. So on religious holidays I would have to go to church. I never had any experience with Buddhism or other religion. I have seen some of the religions on television though.
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