What Religion Is Right

[Guest ignota]

Believe in what makes sense to be believed in?

I believe it'll all work out in the end. And it'll be one helluva ride finding out where it ends

Look at me, all so optimistic... i'm agnostic. i don't always even believe in what i sense, but i feel grateful to be given the privilege of sensing it. Even if i got the wrong body, i'm thankful to have been given one. And if someone or some god/dess made it all, i'm grateful to them too.

[Guest Julie T]

Hi everyone

I usually post in Wicca because that is my belief system, and I do put faith in the ideas that something made the universe. The Goddess, to me , is the female aspect of the Creator. It is still a belief system, and it has it's own forum, so what is my point?

I am Unitarian Universalist. We accept all belief systems including Christianity, but we are not a Christian Church. The key is we believe in ethical living. We also believe in rational thought as a way to understand the universe and what we seem to be doing within it.

Our answer to 'What religion is right?" would be something like this? "All of them and none of them, it is what is in your head, and what is in your heart."

Julie

[Guest CynthiaRussu]

Thank You Julie

I love that answer.

[Guest ColinFarber]

You'll never know until you die.

And you might never know even then; if souls and afterlife don't exist, you might just NEVER know

So you only have one chance to decide; honestly, I believe the best thing is do what feels more natural for you.

I'm what I call a "skeptical deistic agnostic". I give almost everything the benefict of doubt; I think that maybe a God exists because I kind of perceive hir but I don't believe it's the God of any specific religion; and in the end I wonder if this even matters.

I do what I do because I think it's the right thing to do, not because of what would await me in the afterlife. For all I know, there might be a magical carnival full of clowns XD

[Guest Brendalynn]

That is a hard question to answer. I believe the answer to that question will be found within yourself. Look deep inside yourself and follow your instincts and you will find an answer. If you have to ask, "Is this the right religion for me?" then it's a good chance the answer is no. You will feel it inside when you find the answer you are looking for.

Good luck

[Guest Weaver]

Follow your noggin.

Those three words are probably the best for any given situation.

Because there are so many religions, perhaps none of them are true?

[Guest Kelly-087]

None..

I find it no more likely that Jesus rose from the dead than Heracles slew the Hydra. This can apply to all religions. There's too many of them. And too many practitioners to claim they are right for any of them to actually be right.

[Guest winterangel]

I think atheism is frequently misinterpreted, and I fail to see how this comes about. Atheism is nothing more than either the rejection of a belief in a deity or deities, or simply the lack thereof.

I also fail to understand what this "hardline atheism" is. I've never come across it myself, as all atheists I know of, personally and popular (e.g. Richard Dawkins), are agnostic atheists. You cannot reasonably declare that there are no deities, because the existence of a deity is not falsifiable; therefore, all atheists must (logically) be agnostic atheists, and if any atheist is not agnostic, they are no more reasonable than a person who declares there is a deity or deities.

Moreover, atheism "says" nothing. Like I said, it's nothing more than the rejection of a belief in a deity or deities, or the lack thereof; atheism is not a religion or even a belief system. I, personally, do not think of humans as the center of the universe, far from it. I think Homo sapiens is an insignificant species on an insignificant mote suspended in an astronomically vast universe, which may or may not also exist alongside other universes within a multiverse. It has been around for only roughly two hundred thousand years, whereas the universe has been around for nearly fourteen billion years.

But, do not take me for a nihilist, either. Despite its overall insignificance, Earth has a relatively great significance to me, because it is my home planet, and I share it with over seven billion other humans, and millions of other species, also. The accomplishments of our species are indeed grand insofar as we can compare ourselves to other species; we currently do not know of any other intelligent life forms in the universe, although the odds of there being at least one other intelligent species out there, somewhere, are enormous.

As for the question of which religion is 'right,' this would first and foremost require an evaluation of every extant religion, and then we would need to confirm the validity of each religion. If we are able to confirm a specific religion is 100% valid, then that religion would be 'right,' but there is also the potential for other religions. A religion which is in the least bit theistic is already unable to be investigated, because as I said, the existence of a deity will never be falsifiable. Therefore, such religions as the Abrahamic trio, are not 'right,' but they are not necessarily 'wrong' either.

I have evaluated a few religions and personally feel that the respective holy books of the Abrahamic religions are too self-contradictory to be considered credible in the least. These books are fundamental to their respective religion, and thus I do not feel that the logic in any of their associated religions is sound. In any case, it's far too unsound for me to personally believe. There are also other reasons to doubt their legitimacy, but I shall not get into those.

To the contrary, my research of religion has only led me to believe that the idea of a deity is entirely produced by the human mind (i.e. the idea is fictional). I thus opt not to believe in any deity. Given all this, I am accurately described as an agnostic atheist, but because the agnostic is logically assumed, I omit it in most circumstances.

Overall, I do not bear a fondness for religion, namely organized religion. I have personal philosophies, many of which are like those of Buddhism, and these have proven for me to be excellent substitutes for religion. (I was previously a devout Christian.) I think you should believe in what you wish to believe, rather than accept a packaged religion.

In conclusion, to each their own.

[VickySGV]

I cannot comment on which religion is right, but we do have a history of the ones who were wrong. These are the religions that have ended up catastrophically killing all of their members in a single generation or even incident. ( Even Christianity itself was headed in the wrong direction in its early years by recommending its members not have children since the end of the world was close at hand. It was at least flexible enough to change that heading, but seems to have swung in the opposite direction in the last many years.)

Religions that tend to harmonize mankind with its place in the natural life of the universe, and who see all human experience as holy and unique in our ability to see the entirety of life and existance at least head in the right directions.

[Guest Alexx21]

i am at a cross roads at what religion i am , i believe that there is one God , that jesus was an holy man but not the son of God

i believe in life after death and that we reincarnated into animals or humans or plants , I believe in magic as well and in angels

I dont have one set way of believing i believe in many things there is nothing telling me that i am wrong in what i believe in at all

Whatever you believe weather its Muslim , christian , pagan etc its true to you and holds something special to you hold on to that

what ever it might be