Which faith would you pick if you had the choice?

[HK]

Discussion on some of the other threads had me wondering. If you could choose one religion to believe in, completely and thoroughly, no questions asked, which would you pick?

I've always thought I'd make a good Jewess, but on further thought I think I'd actually prefer one of the polytheistic religions. I like the idea of having different deities responsible for different areas in life, and the stories about the Roman, Greek and Norse Gods have always interested me.

 

[doombug]

Discussion on some of the other threads had me wondering. If you could choose one religion to believe in, completely and thoroughly, no questions asked, which would you pick?

I've always thought I'd make a good Jewess, but on further thought I think I'd actually prefer one of the polytheistic religions. I like the idea of having different deities responsible for different areas in life, and the stories about the Roman, Greek and Norse Gods have always interested me.

Atheists pretty much choose from anything they can rationalize so you might want to look into that.

 

[porterjack]

buddhism

 

[HK]

Atheists pretty much choose from anything they can rationalize so you might want to look into that.

Try actually answering the question in the OP, rather than dragging your arguments from another thread into this one.

 

[HK]

buddhism

I've found a lot of people say this. What attracts you to it?

 

[Panacea]

There is no religion I would pick in entirety, but like you said, I have an interest in the admitted polytheistic religions. Also, faiths like Jainism, Native American spiritual beliefs, and Buddhism all have some positive messages and I respect the way they're laid out...like being peaceful, respectful, grateful, and mindful. Those are things I try to work on, and I think the religions I mentioned handle them really well.

 

[pjbleek]

if someone could educate me or at least point me in the right direction I will describe my ideal religion. While I appreciate someone like Jesus Christ who according to the Gospels, a loving and concerned man but it is hard to grasp that he was the chosen one, as the faith I was baptized into (by no choice of my own) and following the faith by going to Sunday school and never encouraged to question this thought or faith. Going to a Catholic grade school and a high school never prepared me for open thought because faith had blinded into one track thinking and never once gave thought to embracing the idea of open thought and questioning. So, once the thought of embracing a new thought was quite nice. But in being brought up Irish Catholic my mother never really spread the Catholic guilt because she too felt no real desire to be connected to the Church since she was a girl im Ireland. So, when dad passed away the Church was in the rear view mirror because I believe that God is in our hearts, thoughts and minds and how we choose to live our lives is up to us. I do not need a building to tell me how and when to pray....so is there a religion that allows me to spread my free will within my own conscience?

 

[Panacea]

if someone could educate me or at least point me in the right direction I will describe my ideal religion. While I appreciate someone like Jesus Christ who according to the Gospels, a loving and concerned man but it is hard to grasp that he was the chosen one, as the faith I was baptized into (by no choice of my own) and following the faith by going to Sunday school and never encouraged to question this thought or faith. Going to a Catholic grade school and a high school never prepared me for open thought because faith had blinded into one track thinking and never once gave thought to embracing the idea of open thought and questioning. So, once the thought of embracing a new thought was quite nice. But in being brought up Irish Catholic my mother never really spread the Catholic guilt because she too felt no real desire to be connected to the Church since she was a girl im Ireland. So, when dad passed away the Church was in the rear view mirror because I believe that God is in our hearts, thoughts and minds and how we choose to live our lives is up to us. I do not need a building to tell me how and when to pray....so is there a religion that allows me to spread my free will within my own conscience?

PJ, I think the answer there is just spirituality. Your personal journey with your faith and beliefs...it doesn't, by necessity need a name or a religion or a church, so long as you don't think it needs one. You know best.

 

[doombug]

Try actually answering the question in the OP, rather than dragging your arguments from another thread into this one.

Hey that is a perfectly legit response.

 

[hart]

Don't we have a choice to pick any faith?

 

[pjbleek]

will not be following Tebowism.....

 

[HK]

Don't we have a choice to pick any faith?

I don't know how it is for other people but as interesting as I find religion, I can't actually force myself to have actual faith, which is what I mean by choosing one to believe in. Technically I could choose to be a Christian, but I'd be a terrible one because I don't accept their idea of God

 

[porterjack]

I've found a lot of people say this. What attracts you to it?

i am by no ways really well informed on the detail but am attracted by the compassion, caring and overall peaceful side

 

[doombug]

Don't we have a choice to pick any faith?

Pick atheism. That way you can choose to whatever you want.

 

[hart]

No that's not picking a faith, that's choosing no faith

 

[doombug]

No that's not picking a faith, that's choosing no faith

Nah, that's choosing to have faith in whatever you want.

 

[porterjack]

Pick atheism. That way you can choose to whatever you want.

twice you have said that

you sound like a preacher

 

[doombug]

twice you have said that

you sound like a preacher

hehehe! just preaching the facts....

 

[Leananshee]

Well, I have been about everything from a Unitarian to a Pagan to a Southern Baptist, had remarkable conversations with a great many more theists, atheists and agnostics, and have read the Bible, the Quran, and the Bhagavad-Gita, the Lotus Sutra, amongst others. Know what that makes me? Better read, maybe better informed, and that's about it.

Technically, I pick Christianity, but no particular denomination, because I think most religions are far too religious, get too steeped in doctrine, though there are in all of them people of faith who actually try to love and help one another. If the rest actually were more about faith, less about religiosity, I wouldn't mind it so much. Most of the atheists I've come across were originally in a fundamentalist sect and are now reacting in the opposite direction against anything that sounds remotely religious but with the same fundamentalist fervor. Same reaction mostly against Christianity with neo-pagans I've met, which is why I shy away from them. I didn't tolerate it in Christianity, why would I elsewhere, right?

 

[doombug]

Well, I have been about everything from a Unitarian to a Pagan to a Southern Baptist, had remarkable conversations with a great many more theists, atheists and agnostics, and have read the Bible, the Quran, and the Bhagavad-Gita, the Lotus Sutra, amongst others. Know what that makes me? Better read, maybe better informed, and that's about it.

Technically, I pick Christianity, but no particular denomination, because I think most religions are far too religious, get too steeped in doctrine, though there are in all of them people of faith who actually try to love and help one another. If the rest actually were more about faith, less about religiosity, I wouldn't mind it so much. Most of the atheists I've come across were originally in a fundamentalist sect and are now reacting in the opposite direction against anything that sounds remotely religious but with the same fundamentalist fervor. Same reaction mostly against Christianity with neo-pagans I've met, which is why I shy away from them. I didn't tolerate it in Christianity, why would I elsewhere, right?

I agree!