Well, I'm absolutely positive I won't be around here much longer

Well, I'm absolutely positive I won't be around here much longer.

Just a simple question.
Should faith be founded or forgotten?

Here as in on earth, or here as in Veeky Forums?

Just Veeky Forums. I've been given a lot of guidance from this place, it's hard to leave but it's a must.

I just wonder what's the proper approach with people when it comes to religion.

Faith shouldn't be forgotten. I don't know what it means for faith to be founded.

Whatsoever is not of faith is sin. Rom 14:23

Well, I just mean, since I'm transitioning into a more responsible position with immediate concerns of income, status, etc. - I just wonder how ideas of God should fit into that and how to deal with others that have serious influence from ideas of God.

If I had to subscribe to a belief system, I'd fall within the transcendentalists & deists. I'm not sure how to handle peoples attachments to Churches, or actual conceptions of God because of that.

I guess I just want my views challenged here. Some days I feel as if I've been far too long distracted from the essential questions religions try to answer. Far too often I see either complete disregard or a vague subscription to some religion.

>deism
>religious
You literally can't.
>muh problem of evil, muh omniscience
Consider for a second how calling the universe a 'good maximizing machine' and a 'playing movie' both sound absolutely disgusting.

>I just wonder how ideas of God should fit into that and how to deal with others that have serious influence from ideas of God.
To me, God actualizes your joys and justifies your tribulation.

>Well, I just mean, since I'm transitioning into a more responsible position... I just wonder how ideas of God should fit into that
It's good to be thinking about that. Most people hit an age where they begin to seriously reckon with the transcendent. How you handle it will seriously impact the rest of your life.
>transcendentalists & deists
What are your specific beliefs that you think these labels describe?

I am not deist because I expect the world to be all good. I am a deist because there is too much unknown to conceptualize God. I suppose I falsely advertised in that regard, since the main appearance of deism is still a belief in a God. I only say God under the terms of others. God, to me, is something that cannot be marginalized within our narrow world views. It seems pretentious as a fore front, I don't mean to come off this way.I just don't see how we could ever have any sort of relationship or understanding of something so immense, so abstract and so distant from our meager perceptions. I do not see how a belief or disbelief in something so detached would influence our destiny.

That's a crisp way to put it.
There are many beneficial ways to incorporate God within a practical way of living. I'm just curious, how do these beliefs you hold impact your interactions?

I do both the terms a disservice due to my lack of investigation. Through a bit more research I am not so sure I fully subscribe to deism.
I just think the idea of God is too detached from our immediacy of living. I wil not deny the possibility of influence from whatever God may be.
I just don't think we have the tools nor mindset to conclude the influences of God and our attachments to it.
I am transcendentalist in that meaning must be derived from our own endeavors due to the insurmountable difference between that which holds power over us, and us ourselves. The world we find ourselves in is mostly due to our influences.
I can't find the answer in how God could fit into our world view and define things so rigidly in these religious factions. I find it a false importance in the ideas of sin or modes of living or morality.
I just don't see how such a power has any attachments to us. There is too much missing within the bigger picture to find morality or a way to live from these conclusions. I just think these are spawned from others.