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For those of you who regard themselves as of a certain religion, why?

Or to be precise, why did you choose to be a member of your particular religion? Have you considered other ones? What makes your chosen one superior to the others?

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  • 8 years ago

    I was raised as a Christian. However, by the time I was about eight years old, I was already starting to realize that it didn't really make a lot of sense. However, at age eight, you don't have a full view of the world, so I didn't really know what else was out there.

    It was just about that time that I was exposed to Judaism for the first time (long story with which I won't bore you); it seemed good to me, but I still didn't know how to get from where I was to Judaism. There's just a lot of stuff you don't know when you're eight :-)

    Many years passed, and I finally met a family who was Jewish. The husband had converted to Judaism before he and his wife were married. I had also had the opportunity to learn about Judaism in the meantime. Thanks to the couple I met, I learned that it was possible to convert. In that intervening time, I also became less and less comfortable with the teachings of Christianity, and its various contradictory teachings; I could see for myself that it hurt people enormously (again, a long, boring story).

    I went through the conversion process to Judaism around 1994. For me, it was absoultely the right thing to do. I am happier now by far than I was as a Christian; I'm encouraged to study, to give of the best of myself, and to find the best in others. I'm more active in helping others who are needy or in trouble. I no longer feel that I'm a lowly, awful creature as I was taught in Christianity, but a person who is valued and who has something to offer others.

    Judaism is by no means for everybody (which is the primary reason we do not SEEK converts); it is not easy, but for me, it is an ideal way to live my life.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Im a muslim.

    Used to be a non practicing Christian.

    Islam has absolute truth, logic, scientific reason and explanations.

    Its NOT a blind faith, only going by people's opinions and theories...

    If you have any question, you will no doubt find a answer in the Quran.

    Would never consider another religion, I believe the Quran to be the last testament.

    Confirming what came before, and clarifying the truth, of what was corrupted before over time.

    :D

    Source(s): muslim
  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    I am Christian, because I found the truth in it. I know God exists, from historical evidence of Jesus and experiences I have had in life that provide no other option besides that realization. Also I knew that I was living in evil, I didn't want to go to Hell, so I prayed to be forgiven for my sins and accepted Jesus' sacrifice on the cross.

    As far as other religions, I was atheist for a while. Then I had those experiences in life like I said that led me to believe in God.

    I also practiced Wicca and tried performing Wiccan rituals with friends and by myself. I didn't find much truth to that religion. I liked the nature part of it and the rule of 3 times, but the rituals mostly didn't work. I did have one eerie experience though where I and a friend did a ritual for money, and the next day we were walking down the street and found like 60 pennies on the ground. I think that wiccan magick (if it works) is connected to demons and hell.

    I also looked into religions like Islam, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Druidism. I liked the morals for the most part that was taught in Buddhism and Confucianism, but other than that I didn't find much truth to them.

    Christianity to me is superior, because in it is truth, the true God of the universe who created it, and his word to us.

  • 8 years ago

    i practice one religion not because i consider it the only correct one, or because i consider it superior to the others, but because you can't follow them all, it's like going up a mountain, there'll be many paths to take and they all go to the same place eventually, but you can't take every path, you have to pick one and stick to it .. i believe that all religions point the same way, they've just had different aspects of the other world revealed to them because they've all been looking from one particular angle and you can't understand the nature of the other just from one tradition or other, you have to understand it from all of them taken together, but to reach the same level of understanding as the founders of and mystics in the different traditions have reached, you have to take your path

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    i been born and raised with it and start believing in it...i studied christanity and islam its just i believe that hindu is true there is not a thing of i thinking its superior or anything is just a believe and there is nothing personal about it...believing is not wrong right? there is no right and wrong any way you look at it anyway :P

    Source(s): me
  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    It chose me, simply because I was already living the basics before I'd ever heard of it.

  • Steph
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    Religion is nothing more than an externalization of ones ego. A person's God has exactly the same likes and dislikes and the same enemies as them. Their God is a mirror image of them because it IS them.

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