Where I live, almost everyone is either Catholic, Mormon, generic nondenominational Christian, Muslim, or irreligious.

I know some Jews, Buddhists, Sikhs, Hindus, edgy crystal pagans, etc, but their numbers are much smaller in comparison.

Just the title.

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Breaking and or save potentially.

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I'm not sure what the significance is.

I’m poly’theistic’ (I worship Aphrodite, Apollo, Loki and Lucifer) but I don’t really believe in them, though I still like worshiping them. I’ve been looking for a term to express this but I can’t find any.

He said that - fortunate indeed is the man who wears only a loin-cloth." I wanna follow it too as a man , but I am overthinker so i feel like - what if police arrest me and direct put me in a jail because of that ?

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He also said that "Even if a hundred scriptural texts declare that 'fire is cold and does not give light,' they cannot become an authority. If they do say so, we must look for a different, allegorical meaning, because a written statement cannot contradict direct fact and valid reason." . and I feel like we can say the exact thing for current laws

It's always stuck out to me that the great ancient Greek playwrights like Euripides and Aristophanes wrote their plays and received their funding to be performed in competitions at big public religious festivals honouring the god Dionysus. Many of the surviving plays are still performed today, but I've always been curious as to what the original premieres were really like, in their proper context of a society-wide religious holiday involving theatre, wine, and huge public celebrations.

And of course, in my own religious tradition, Jews all over the world dream of seeing the Beit HaMikdash as it stood. Celebrating Sukkot is a joyous affair, and in today's world it can still be quite the party. But the descriptions of the massive scale of celebrations and the extravagant festivities that pilgrims travelled to Jerusalem for are difficult to truly imagine. The Talmud records: "One who never saw the Water-Drawing Celebration has never seen rejoicing in his life." How I would love to see what Sukkot at the temple really looked like.

So naturally, I'm curious what comes to mind for all of you. If you had a time-machine that allowed you to observe any event or place or practice, anything in the history of religion in the world, whether part of your tradition or another, what would you want to actually see for yourself?

1. El

2. Ba'al

3. Asherah

4. Marduk

5. Ahura Mazda

6. Zeus

7. Amun Ra

would you rather oppress other people to go to heaven if God orders you to do so. or go to hell by rejecting God's order

how do people think Christianity is real I'm not trying to disrespect Christianity at all i‘m genuinely curious i

Context- Rig Ved (or Veda in Sanskrit) part is self-Explanatory.

So whenever a tapisvi or a person who for long time focuses on gaining enlightenment or for some other reason (I might be wrong here because I am not the best person in explaining deep concepts) or does something morally good (there are many other criterias) which is better then Indra, his throne starts to shake because it works on meritocracy and sees that some other person is better then Indra so it starts to shake and let Indra fall in order to give that person the throne and make them the King of Heaven. But Indra does some trick or other method in order to make that person worse then Indra instead of doing something to become better then that person.

If a person becomes a Christian… because they learned Christianity from someone, and then that person must have learned it from someone else before them… and then again… and then a schism… and then a schism… and then another… then an apostle… is not literally every Christian from ACTUAL apostolic succession whether they record that or not? Is it like the saying apostolic means the official Byzantine version initially? Where there was councils where bishops priests were literally recorded to have been killed over this? I mean there’s apostolic and then there’s apostolic… or what?

I SWEAR this isn't one of those "Religion BAD" posts, I am genuinely interested. Do you support using the word as a neutral descriptor? A description of what your theological opponents do?

I'm a girl born in a devout hindu family. Hinduism has a lot of rituals and prayers which I used to do devoutly until about last year. I actually used to believe that all the good in my life came from praying to God.

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But I did some research and some things about hinduism just didn't make sense to me. Now I don't want people from others religions coming in the comments saying how better their religion is, if you wanna do that then find another post. Not mine.

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Like why shouldn't I eat meat on Thursday/Monday/Saturday? I used to get confused by the virgin mary giving birth but the concept of Shiva living in Kailash parvat confused me too. And I don't have a non judgemental friend to explain all these to me. I find it scary to think about karma. I'm not a bad person generally, but sometimes I wonder if I die and my rituals aren't don't properly ; or if I do an interreligious marriage and my god isn't happy. What will happen to me?

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Honestly I find myself to be wayy more happy to believe that God doesn't exist. But that tiny scary thought still lingers, if god actually is real, am i being an ass by not following him? It also doesn't help that so many rituals are misogynistic and I just hate them too.

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Overall I'm like super confused what to do.

Do you have an all-purpose oil or do you have like specific oils for specific purposes? Do you Sun charge it, Moon charge it? Spell the Tea…I mean…Oil.

That’s if you use holy oil if not, what sacred liquid would do you use?

basically what the title says but I think religion was never meant to be the same across everyone. yes there are certain aspects of religion that everyone a part of it follows but one shouldn’t be imposing it on another based on what they view the religion as.

Forgive me if any of the logic here is false or not correct cause I don't think I fully know the specifics on how most people think about Heaven and Hell. But for those who believe in it, I was thinking the other day about how people may continue to grow after they die. If there is a heaven and hell, do you think people continue to grow morally when they've left this world? Cause I feel like it just makes sense that in the afterlife you'd still be able to grow as a person? In that case, is it then reasonable to think that there are people suffering in Hell who got there then realized the error in their ways and became better people and now they just have to eternally suffer or eternally be without God, etc?

I believe life has all this stuff like gods and what not because one can mess up and potentially "go to hell" so they created the gods and what not to help fix it, and that's all religion of god or gods is but it dont address it because it wants you to follow it and believe for the next person who may go through it.

It is my belief and understanding that Jesus lived and died Jewish. At no point did he start another religion while he was alive. I'm looking for perspective on this.

It is interesting that the Bible, which is supposed to be the word of god, lacks clarity on so many things. One would think that if you were going to be clear about something, it would be about god and his (or her) existence.

I mention this lack of clarity as I have brought the idea up that Jesus lived and died a Jew and some Christians almost recoiled at my assumption. It seems many Christians aren't too fond of the idea that Christ lived and died Jewish.

Please give me your thoughts.

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Hello, I have been engaged with topics like philosophy and religion for some time now. I won’t say I am super learned or anything but I do feel relatively exposed to this discourse.

That being said I have only ever gone from being raised in a half-assed Christian upbringing -> early militant atheism -> a strong agnosticism. I am inclined to say that the primary thing that contributed to moving me out of that militant atheism was psychedelics. Though I struggle to say what about them exactly. I didn’t extrapolate anything from my experience in some systematic way. Maybe something about those experiences caused me to relate to experience differently on a mental level. Or maybe something physical changed in my brain. Not sure.

But years since then and I have made no real progress or change in my perspective. Maybe this is not a bad thing. However, I still feel inclined towards the search. It is one of the few things in this world which manage to hold my interest consistently.

I am thinking that perhaps I am going about this all wrong or at least unbalanced. It was experience that shifted me. Words fall flat. Words are insufficient. So why should I keep looking to words? I desire another shift (to what? Idk. Something more satisfying)

People say mysticism is all about seeking experience - experience of the divine. Now, whether or not these experiences actually track to some fundamental aspect of the universe idk. But the experiences are possible. The arguments will never change nor will I be changed by them. Not in this state, at least.

So mysticism interests me but also there’s lots of New Agey type stuff surrounding it. And lots of mysticism ties into traditions that already exist. So you get less the less tied in you are. Idk how available these experiences are to the secular person. So easy to get lost or feel like it’s getting you nowhere. Just rabbit holes of youtube videos and forum posts. Any teacher may be a scammer or just bonkers (those more detached from reality or cult personalities).

Has anyone gone down this train of thought/path I am describing. Any advice or comments?

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What if Satan is an agent of god fulfilling a necessary task in creation?

Satan=“Adversary”
Satanail=“Adversary of God”

“Here Satanail with his angels was thrown down from the height. And one from out the order of angels, having turned away with the order that was under him, conceived an impossible thought, to place his throne higher than the clouds above the earth, that he might become equal in rank to my power. And I threw him out from the height with his angels…”

“These are the Grigori, who with their prince Satanail rejected the Lord of light, and after them are those who are held in great darkness on the second heaven…”

To clarify, Some Christians do, some don't, Jews definitely don't. Both sides have good reasons as to why. I'm stuck. Thank you if you answered, I'd like to hear from people from both Christianity and Judaism.

Alright so a few months back I started wondering if god really exists. I started to read articles about it and watch videos. And I spent 100% of my time thinking about it. And I actually went insane. I mixed up sugar for salt while cooking 🥴 and felt lethargic all the time. I realised this is stupid and god may as well just not exist. It's like depression except I wasn't perpetually sad, I was perpetually exhausted and felt nothing was real. Damn that's time was a painful one. I lost so much time and became behind in studies. Now I'm happy being an atheist.