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If you are religious, what makes you believe your branch of religion is the right one?

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Soubriquet · 25/05/2024 09:40

I mean…Jesus was Jewish.

Why do you believe your catholic branch is more believable than someone’s baptist branch?

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Alalalalalongalalalalalonglonglilong · 25/05/2024 23:26

Religion is usually cultural and not a choice. I am not spiritual but I am Catholic and enjoy many of the Catholic festivals and traditions without the spiritual part. Many friends and families are true belivers but the general consensus of the people in my life is that God is God, we just have different interpretations of it. So Jewish or Muslim, protestant or Catholic believe in the same God in some form.

Personally I have a very low tolerance of people who believe thet are chosen or that their God is the right or superior one.

HauntedCosmos · 25/05/2024 23:32

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 25/05/2024 14:46

‘Think of Christian missionaries going to sub-Saharan Africa to "educate" the indigenous people there, as just one example. ‘

You mean, such as advising them that burying slaves alive when their owner died was a bit inhumane? I expect your opinion on that bit of ‘education’ varied whether you were. the person being buried or the burier.

Agreed. The missionary Mary Slessor did a good bit towards 'educating' the African tribes who used to murder their twin babies when they were born due to their beliefs.

blurry5205 · 25/05/2024 23:37

Ladyj84 · 25/05/2024 19:05

I do believe in following the one who actually follows bible principles and does not adjust the bible to fit modern days principles.Ask yourself why would a catholic in England pray for troops to survive against Catholics in another country also praying for the same yet there the same religion surely meant to be the same god and principles yet willing to fight against each other....Ask yourself evolution theory, the bible does not support the theory. How is it believable? Would you walk thru a woods and see a derelict house and actually say wow I wonder when that house evolved or rather do you say wow I wonder who built and left that house many years ago thus believing in a creator of it...If eveloution is believable then why did apes stop evolving, why are pigs hearts used in human surgery experiments and not apes because they have no common ground in human biology, yet aren't we meant to come from apes?? The bible is full of truths, commands,ways of living and principles to keep us safe,happy and content yet over the years these are twisted and changed by humans to fit present life thus distorting the bible and gods actual writings. We can all have beliefs but it's wether we choose to follow mans or gods

You didn't pay much attention in biology, did you?

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PurpleChrayn · 25/05/2024 23:59

We've been persecuted since basically day 1, and we're still at it, so my faith is pretty strong! Things are bad again right now but there have been worse times for us.

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Godlovesall26 · 25/05/2024 17:58

Personally, same God believed in and/or prayed to in different ways, if that makes sense (unsure, English isn’t my first language).
The username meaning, to simplify for the sake of TLDR :), that my view is it doesn’t actually mind which way you choose to - a view shared by my friends, although again I don’t know how common that is statistically.

Also don’t believe in damnation / hell for sinners.

And don’t think any of us can be in any way 100% sure their beliefs in a general sense are ‘the right one’.

Definitely have an issue with the ‘mine is/should be the only one’ type of approach, with it causing so many pointless conflicts to different scales, but that’s a choice people make - and many conflicts and wars, religious or not have always have always have some element of geopolitical motives, ex a major current one that has hardly any religious component.

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I could have wrote this post, this is exactly my feelings on it, thanks for articulating them!

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