[giaduck]

I was looking at possible careers for my personality type (INFJ) and it said I should be a clergyman....that is the LAST thing I would ever want to be, in fact I am so anti-religious it almost seemed like an insult. Does anyone else feel this way?

[myjazz]

Personality type's don't define who you are or what you should be.

[Elan]

I'm not particularly religious; agnostic, if not a little spiritual. Clergy is listed as a possible career choice due to an INFJ's profound convictions and "third eye" into human behavior and decision processes, which would be useful for guiding their flock. It sure a hell doesn't suit me, but I can see how it would be appealing to a person with strong religious convictions.

[giaduck]

yeah I suppose you are right! I am an atheist and never felt the call of the supernatural, perhaps I am too much of a skeptic to hold religious convictions.

[GreenCoyote]

yeah I suppose you are right! I am an atheist and never felt the call of the supernatural, perhaps I am too much of a skeptic to hold religious convictions.

ah... we have a moral atheist.

[Third Engine]

Funny. Back when I was a fundamentalist Christian, one of the things I really wanted to do was be a youth minister. Now that I am nonreligious, my old youth pastor offered me a chance to work up to that position if I wanted to. Irony is cruel sometimes, haha.

[GreenCoyote]

well at least for us INFJ's, technically... we would be good at it because we are the dream interpreters...
the weavers of stories.

and the bible being a popular one we can kind of get the picture better than most, and really jesus, buddah, whoever you want to call a prophet... they are all around us.
today still.
I like new and emerging art, religion, ideas, just anything and everything that I am "drawn" to.

it doesn't have to be religious, it just has to be beautiful.

religious has a connotation to it these days that goes something along the lines with "only this above all else."
when in reality a truth is that there will always be multiple stories that reach a deeper spiritual place within our souls.
we should not reject new ideas, nor banish the old ones, we should simply embrace what we love and what we want to love.

I think that that is the divine thing about life.
that we can share with each other.
creativity is such a beautiful gift.

I am all metaphysical tonight. just bought and am listening to an amazing album.

[giaduck]

ah... we have a moral atheist.

:P yes i know, rare indeed!

[LookingGlass]

Like I said in a old thread on here, which is relatively new since I just joined this forum last month...

Become yourself and whether there is a God or not won't matter. Know thy self, as they say.

[skycloud86]

ah... we have a moral atheist.

Aren't all atheists moral, especially as atheists are good because it is the right thing to do rather than be good because a book ordered them to?