What are the religions of your friends?

Question

Any friend(s) you have, tell me what their religion is, and while you're at it, tell me what you believe in too.

Answer 1

my friends:hindu,buddhist and christians. I myself am a free thinker. I do not believe that there is a god in this world.come on,look at how the difference in beliefs sparked of war. i think being a free thinker is much more peaceful =)

Answer 2

I know of a Hindu friend and a Catholic friend. The rest of us believe that God is good but Church and religion is bad... Religion is the reason (if not the reason, if was definately one of the drivers and enforcers) for wars, hatred, racism, etc. Just look at history and look to how many wars were at the Church's behest rather than a greedy tyrant King. Women were treated poorly because people actually believed what the first Christians said about women all being evil because of Eve. They also thought Jews were devils because they didn't believe the same as early Christians.... how can you trust institutions that would promote such hatred of people you haven't even met?

Answer 3

Most of my friends are athiest, some are Christian of some sort.
I find it very difficult to talk about religion with most people, since generally they are not at all interested in discussing it, and mostly want to prove why they are right and everyone should believe the same as they do. I suppose I am a henotheist above all, believing that all people believe in what is right for them. I am a polytheistic mysticist - I have no better word for it than that.

Answer 4

No religion is the correct one, and all religions have got it wrong.

There are many major religions in the world, such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism, and so on. Within each major religion there can also be many minor religions. For example, within Christianity there is Catholic, Protestant, Anglican and so on. Within Islam there is Shiite, Sunni etc.

In summary there are many hundreds of different religions in the world all with their devoted believers and followers. Talk to any devout religious person and they will almost emphatically insist that their religion is the right one, it’s fact, and any non-believer is doomed.

Commonsense and logic would suggest that if there was any truthful or factual basis to religion, then only one of these religions could be correct, not all of them. However, in my view, it’s highly unlikely that any of these man-made religions bear any resemblance to fact or the truth, and are more likely to be the result of simplistic human intelligence looking for an escape from reality.

Answer 5

I'm an atheist, my husband is an atheist, my best friend is an atheist, most of my other friends are open-minded Christians, my mother is half Buddhist half mystic, my brother is an agnostic, (although those two are a recent development, we were raised as Methodists), my father doesn't volunteer any personal information about anything, my sister doesn't volunteer any personal information about anything, my extended family on my mother's side are all fundamentalist Christians, my extended family on my dad's side are all reasonable Christians, I used to be friends with a Quaker, I'm currently friends with a Jehovah's Witness, and my guinea pigs worship the God of Oranges and Hay, which happens to be me.

But I don't know any Wiccans. Or at least, if I know them I don't know that they are.

Answer 6

Great question! To be honest, I don't really know all my friends' religions or their beliefs. I know there are a couple who go to interdenominational faith-based churches, another who was raised with and follows no religion, but has some vague spiritual beliefs, one who went through a journey of religious questioning but stuck mainly with Christian beliefs, a couple who are Catholic, who no longer attend the Church. I am not friends with anyone based on their religious beliefs, but on how we treat each other as people.

I follow no religion, but am very spiritual and believe in God, but not all the man-made religious dogma and doctrine around God.

Answer 7

I am an atheist and the religions of my friends are varied. What we all have in common though, is the respect not to tell each other what to think or to insult the other's views.

Anyone without the intelligence or courtesy to respect others' rights to believe different things or not to believe at all, is not welcome by me or my friends.

Answer 8

I don't care for religion and I have friends from different religions. If they want to tell me, it is fine. I am not going to ask them nor do I care what religion they are. If they treat me with respect I treat them with respect else I tell them to get lost.

Answer 9

Most of my friends believe in God (spiritual) but not organized religion, a few are catholics, my brother is agnostic, my sister, boyfriend and I are atheists.

Answer 10

I believe in humanity and myself, I don't know the religion of all my friends,some are catholic,christian,muslim,jehovahswitness,aetheist,pantheist,
falun dafa,buddhist,could not tell you the break down as to what percentage is what.