hOW MANY OF YOU HAVE ACTUALLY QUESTIOND YOUR RELIGION?
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you can not fully be a believer in anything without asking questions.  if you are blindly calling yourself a member of a religion without asking questions, you are not a real believer.  if you are not willing to ask questions then your faith is not strong.  only real belief is strong enough to withstand questioning.  so if someone does not or will not question then they cannot say they truly believe.  even religious teaching tells you to find the truth and gain knowledge.  the only way to do that is to question what you believe.  the apostles questioned their faith and they walked and talked with jesus.  st. augustine, st. thomas of aquinas, john the baptist, martin luther, and others all questioned their faith.  so do it and see where you really stand.  anyone who doesn’t is an idiot without the capability of thought or understanding who blindly follows anything.
471352
Did they brainwash you to ask this?
390582
Large majority find the questions on the front page - that would be coincidence. But others still are interested in what people think concerning religion and God. No one can say that they don't have a doubt about what they believe in, so they are searching. Everyone wants answers to their questions. How can they not ask questions when they wake up in the morning and see a beautiful sunrise, look at the stars, the moon, everything around us is a miracle.\n\nI still have questions and doubts in Christianity but I know that only God has the answers to all questions and I will only find them out when I see him in heaven.\n\nPersonally for me - I would rather live for something - trying to become a better person, living a better life, loving people, having a community and dying to find out I was wrong. Then not and find out I was wrong and go to some terrible place because I didn't believe. I want to be right but hope I am wrong because I don't want people to go to a terrible place. Seems unfair sometimes!\n\nEveryone needs a sense of belonging
1060711
Nope.  That whole "thou shalt have no other gods before me" thing is kind of out the window.  Not that I ever had any spiritual experiences in Christianity anyway.
1071259
I often feel as you do. Confused and hurt, by a God who was supposed to be there for me. I also agree with you that the bible is no more relevant than greek mythology, or even the eastern relgions. I still conteplate the existence of a God period, yet the fact that all these religions exist, might lead us to a God.
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I actually have done multiple re-evals - especially because it was apparent that I had hurt other people who were devout to their religious beliefs which differed from what I believe.  And I have had to apologize for my approach a number of times.\n\nI think there are times, too, though, where it's impossible to avoid offending others.  It's in those times when I've had to trust God and speak with fear and trembling, leaning heavily on the compassion with which He dealt with me to speak to a particular person in the first place.
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Today, I think that most, if not all, organized religions are off the mark a bit.  To rephrase, while I am struggling with the notion of God, I know that I do not believe in the God that Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Bahai's belive in.  Today, I believe that if there is a God, that he/she/it pressed the "start button" and left us to work out the rest for ourselves.
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I don't necessarily discard all others as truths for anyone else, just for myself.  I did a lot of studying on religions before I settled on one that was right for me in every way.  I felt disconnected to the religion I was raised in, so I began a spiritual journey that led me to the religion I am happy in today.  I hope that everyone can be as happy in their religion.
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FOLKS, LISTEN UP!!!!\n\nThere are 10,000 religions practiced on Earth today!!!  TEN THOUSAND!!!  You would "die" for your beliefs in just ONE of them?  Have you even studied any of the others?  What if you got it WRONG?  What if you're dying for the WRONG belief system.  Can you really say, TRULY, that you've studied all of the belief systems and that yours is THE ONE?\n\nMy goodness, there are almost 34,000 DENOMINATIONS OF CHRISTIANITY!!!  Have you studied ALL OF THEM?  It would be a shame to lose your life over one belief system out of TENS OF THOUSANDS...when you've only studied one.  It's like saying, "Carrots are the one true vegetable!", when there are thousands of vegetables, and you've only eaten one.  I would invite you to go back to the "religious salad bar" and eat from more than one tray.  Then, you get to pick from experience, not from blind acceptance.\n\nI wish you Peace.
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I changed my faith to Hinduism from what I was brought up with, after YEARS of studying all I could about various religions, the Bible, and other Scriptures, ancient and world history, archaeology, etc.  I also "studied" myself.  I prayed a lot and came to understood that Hinduism is the religion of my soul, the religion I was when I was a child, before I was told what to believe.
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It actually occured over time.  I was raised a Methodist, but by the time i was in Sixth Grade (now 27 years ago), I began to see there was more out there, at least from the scientific side.  I began to be pretty heavy into science in high school, then began to study religions in the last two years I was in high school.  I had an English teacher than encouraged me to continue to study about them (as a comparative-type study, not a theological path).  \n\nWhen I went to college, I took a major in religion.  I mainly wanted to study world religions, but wound up taking a lot of classes in the Bible.  By the time I had left college, I had read quite a few of the sacred texts of the world's religions (including most of the Bible).  I had even read some of the apocryphal Bible (Old and New Testaments).  I began to believe in Deism during college, but didn't really have a name for it.  \n\nI am a firm believer in Deism today and I really can say I have no nagging questions.  It is a very logical, reasoned religion without a sacred text.  For me, it works.
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I was born as a catholic christian.  It comes a time that I personally asked God and it is also the time that I am losing belief in God and siding to belief that God was only a figurative thing.  Until, I was fed up one day with my problems and I raised my head and uttered to God that He is not real, to my surprise He answered and shown me a vision up to this time I can vividly recall.  His voice is the one described by the prophets, gentle, forgiving and powerful.
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I love your question!  Your experiences really hit home with me.  I was raised without religious beliefs when I was very young, but I was raised with spiritual beliefs and was taught about reincarnation, the afterlife, how to read Tarot cards, etc.\n\nWhen I was a teenager I converted to Christianity, and followed that for about five years.  When I was 19 I converted to a pseudo-Christian religion that had its roots in gnosticism and Sabellianism.  I was really into that, and I swore I would never, never leave it, and that I would rather die than denounce it.  I was truly a religious fanatic!\n\nAs I got older, though, I changed.  I stopped seeing the world in black and white, I lost interest in being judgmental, and I decided that where people go when they die is none of my business.  I almost gave up my faith in Jesus because I was so disgusted with religion, but when I thought about my life I realized that a lot of good things have come my way because of God's goodness to me, so I asked God to help me keep my faith.\n\nAfter a couple of years of trying different churches of different denominations, all the while being very skeptical, I have finally found a church where I feel like I belong.  I still have faith in Jesus, but what I don't have is a judging, critical attitude.  I have gained a better understanding of how much God loves all of us, and I like myself a lot better now because I'm not judgmental anymore and because I am more accepting of people, religions of all kind, and life in general.\n\nSo now, at age 40,  I have learned to never say never, to not judge another person, to mind my own business, and to appreciate the beauty and uniqueness that is in every individual.  I also know from my past experiences that my faith will continue to change and hopefully grow.\n\nI could have left church and Christianity altogether, and like I said, I considered it, but I'm glad I didn't.  God helped me become a better person through all of this, and I didn't want to leave God because I know I wouldn't have all the blessings in life I have now and have had in the past if it weren't for Him.\n\nGood luck on your journey, wherever it may take you!
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Surprisingly accurate!\nI'm "mainstream to conservative Christian/Protestant" (100%)\n\nConsidering that I am a Christian (I consider myself an 'evangelical' Christian, which is a more conservative 'brand' I suppose), that was very spot on!\n\nHowever, I wonder how sensitive it is, given that I also got 80% for Mormon/Jehvoah's Witness, which I am not...\n\nthere was a lot of other issues the quiz could have tapped into, for example- how humans know about God, holy books (the Bible etc), who was Jesus (apparently Muslim and other religions believe he existed, but give him different roles).
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I grew up Catholic but I chose to not have any religion at some point.  Honestly it bored the heck out of me.  Now I do find the study of relgions fascinating, just not the belief in one.
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I have been going through the same thing right now.  I have done a lot of research and it is something that is really hard to prove.  Also there are 5 or 6 books that aren't in there and it makes me wonder who decided which books belong in the Bible and which don't.  Also have you noticed that other religions are just a loyal and believe just as strongly in their religions or "bibles" laws.  It's a strange thing.  Sometimes it makes me wonder if I always believed just because I was born here and my parents do .... I'm interested to see the answers you get though.
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Personally I'm agnostic. But the category is religion not atheism. That's probably why.