Captive Heart
At Captive Heart, we’ll take an unbiased look at religion, everything from Catholicism to Jehovah’s Witnesses, and we’ll make a pit stop at Buddhism on the way. In the interest of providing an uncompromising and unflinching look at religion, we’ll also cover such taboo areas as agnostic and atheist beliefs.
Even more uncompromisingly, we’ll also take a bit of virtual space to discuss such relatively controversial topics as followers of the Church of Satan.
Here at Captive Heart, we clearly don’t shy away from all of the religious options out there – indeed, we practice religious full disclosure to the hilt, and tolerance is one of our core values.
Below is a blueprint of what you can expect at Captive Heart. To gain insight into any of these religious belief systems, just navigate to the link to that subject’s page:
Catholic
Christianity (including Lutherism, Presbyterian / Protestantism and Jehovah’s Witnesses)
Judaism
Mormonism
Church of Satan
Buddhism
As an introduction to this complex subject, let us briefly definereligion:
Religion is any life approach that involves beliefs regarding one’s place in the world, one’s origins, and / or one’s responsibility to live and act in the world in particular ways. Usually, religion is equated with belief and faith in a higher truth or power. Most commonly, though, it’s defined as the patterns (i.e. moral codes, values, practices, institutions, tradition, and rituals), that express faith, reinforcing those patterns in day-to-day living. It’s possible to share a religion’s philosophy and believe it its higher truth, without religiously manifesting that faith – hence the term, a “non-practicing Christian”, for example.
Stronger than a personal conviction, religion usually entails specific behaviors. However, the roots are religion vary greatly: it’s considered psychological by Freud, social by Emile Durkheim and philosphical by Ernesto De Martino.
Some describe religion a way of life or a particular life stance.
As you’ll see on this page, religion is different for everyone – some may pray to God Almighty, while others praise the god of online slots (which you can play in the US by visiting online casinos that accept US players, btw!). Still, others kneel down and “pray” right into their toilet bowl every Saturday night (actually, usually Sunday morn in the wee hours)!