Makeshiftwings:

If you replace the word "God" with the word "Religion" I'd have to agree with you, at least to some extent.  I've talked to religious people who seem to bend over backwards trying to deny anything science has to teach us.  One guy said that science can't possibly accurately measure distances in space.  When I asked him why NASA engineers could accurately "guess" where Mars would be when the Rover was supposed to enter it's atmosphere... he had no answer... but he was still insistent that science can't possibly measure distances in space.

I understand people choosing science or spiritual, but I can't find anywhere in any scripture that tells me that I'm supposed to ignore the things of the physical simply because I accept the spiritual.  For that matter, while there are many who tell me that the physical proves that can't be a spiritual, I haven't seen any proof of that either.

But I did get a laugh from your paraphrase. ;~D

Man dont confuce spirituality with religion!
I am spiritual AND very sientific, and the fact im spiritual dosnt mean im religious, as i am not..

That's a very good point!

Religion is a set of rules, spirituality is an approach to faith. One can be religious and spiritual or one of the two or neither.

Nothing ever landed on Mars. It was a sound stage on Pluto!

I have a little video link I would like to give to all of you.  I find it quite interesting, it is just under an hour in length. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liMmvu9eMrg , I hope some of you find it as interesting as I did. 

Any hint what it might be about?

'Why We Believe in Gods'  I found it quite interesting.  The Dr. giveing the talk appears in the current Discover Magazine.

Coca Cola:

I think of the two pretty much interchangeably, but that is mostly because my religious and spiritual beliefs are inseparable.  I do understand that many people think of them as different, and that works too.

I believe in G-d because my parents told me that there is one.

Essentially I believe in G-d for the same reason that I don't wet my pants.

It's in the article I linked to.

It doesn't specifically list priest in the titles list, however there are several, mostly they are the more radical churches, however they do exist. What a church wishes to refer to their clergy has can change even within a religious designation.

As far as I know the "priesthood of all believers" is a doctrine that says that all Christians are priests. It does not establish a Lutharan priesthood comparable to the Catholic system.

German Lutheranism doesn't have priests and does not refer to its clergy as priests.

I believe in God because of what I have experienced in my own life. I have experienced things that cannot be explained by science, but that I know to be true and real. I researched religions and found one that fits my beliefs. My parents would probably fight with me to no end on sevarl parts of what I believe.

I consider myself to be a Christian, but I don't claim a denomination nor do I claim a church. You can be Christian and yet not go to church or even tell anyone about it. What belief system you follow is up to you. I've seen more than one person who claims they are Christian and all their religion consists of is going to church when they feel like it or in order to secure their place in the afterlife, but don't actually believe in the religion. I also know several atheists that believe in the basic principles of the Christian belief, however they don't call themselves Christians. Christianity is a very broad spectrum of religions and beliefs.

With respect, to believe in something just because you parents told you, its a big mistake
fammily tradtions got a devastating effect on progress, not all of them ofcourse.
For excample my dad keeps telling me that trading shares is like a game at the casino
the house always win, while in fact i trade shares and only for the past 4 months i earned about 20.000$
with innitial invesment of 50.000, it took me 4 months to pay back about 40% of the innitial investment.
and remember we are in a middle of a crisis here, where shares have a high tendancy to drop

No, it is not. But it is a mistake to doubt your parents' words if you have no reason to do so other than the knowledge that there is no evidence for what they said and no evidence against it. When in doubt, trust the people who did everything for you. That's the basis of society.

My parents were right on the toilet issue. I assume they knew what they were talking about in general.

The older I get the more I notice how often they were right. Why doubt one of the most important teachings now?

I think it is stupid to invest in shares to make quick profits. MOST people are not as lucky as you were.

Your dad was right.

Incidentally, short-term investments are not "progress". And advice to stay out of risky share gambling does not have a "devastating effect on progress".

Very true.

Theoretically there could even be (and probably are) fully atheistic Christians, who believe in no god but do believe that Jesus was a great teacher and saviour. They are hence "Christians" because they believe that Jesus was the Messiah, but not that he was in fact annointed by a god (maybe he was annointed by the universe or by his deeds and teachings).

I respect any such belief.