Religions - Your Opinion

[Josh_R]

Unknown you have a lot of good views and I support every single one of them...

I don't think you can just choose a religion, but you can choose a path which might possibly follow a particular religion, therefore making you part of it.

I think this is true. I didn't choose to be atheist I just followed a path that cause me to question everything that I had learnt about religion.

"Choosing" a religion isn't like choosing which clothes to wear in the morning. It's a massive decision which needs a lot of thought put into it.

Fact, it took me a few years to even become a atheist. I also know many friends who thought long and hard about their religion choices and still don't know what to believe.

I think that for a religion to be taken seriously, you'd need to of have been raised on it by your parents or school or whatever.

I was raised in a strong christian family but over time my belief in it began to fade. I just stopped believing that there was a force that basically controlled us all..

I was raised to be a Christian. A load of shit happened to make me question Christianity. What annoyed me was that when I put these questions forward to my teachers and even the vicar, I wasn't given a proper answer, which therefore lead to even more questions. Eventually, they stopped giving me answers because they got pissed that I was wasting their time I can imagine.

Same thing happened to me. Noone would ever give me a straight answer, and at the time I was going to a christian school so you would think if I had any doubts or questions about the religion they would tell me...

Why, when religion is questioned, do people tend to back off and get defensive as if the curious people are trying to disprove or take a dig at the path this person has chosen?

I think it is because they feel that everyone might actually be trying to disprove their religion. You have all these religious fanatics who take thing s to far some times and it sacres everyone of that religion. You talked about speaking with muslims girls nowadays in the united states muslims are often shunned due to 9/11. I have many Muslim friends and none of them are bad people, but due to the acts of a few fanatics everyone has began to despise them and their religion.

When it comes to converting to another religion, I believe it's something that requires a lot of thought and research. It's not possible to become a Christian* overnight.

This is a fact, if you choose a religion quickly to me that shows that you either don't care or you are uneducated on it. I studied many different religions: buddhism, taoism, etc...None of which were appeling to me except for maybe taoism it was very interesting so was buddhism...It is a difficult decision that should not be taken lightly and should be though about for longer than a day or two...