Do you practice an alternate religon?

Question

If so what... and what is a good online resource to research more about it... And I would love to here anyother thoughts you have about your own particular religon!!!

I mean alternative to the 3 main stream religons... paganism... wica... anything along that lines...

Answer 1

I write the House of Ideology Manifesto to provide a good example of how to best satisfy our common need and aspiration to achieve and maintain good health and happiness. Why read from the House of Ideology Manifesto? I believe others should read from the pages of our House of Ideology Manifesto as a way of entertaining, educating and leading themselves with good examples of how to build models of self and world made up of truths and myths that best produce good health and happiness. In sharing this House of Ideology Manifesto with others, I am out to find those people who will devote energy, space and time to a spiritual model of self and world like my own.

I am the High Ideologue of the House of Ideology. I build with ideas in my mind a model of self and world. This model of self and world that I build with ideas in my mind I use to orient myself towards existence and explain existence to myself. This reality that I fashion within my mind I call my house of ideology. Many of the life forms in our body consuming biosphere naturally build a model of self and world and use this in the process of orienting self towards existence and explaining existence to self. Out of an awareness of this fact and a desire to pursue happiness and good health came to me the idea of founding the House of Ideology, a non profit religious association and the High Ideologue, A Corporation Sole, a non profit religious corporation. Through these organizations I challenge the many of our global culture to have the highest esteem of self and world that they can possibly imagine; and converge upon a standard of conduct that best produces happiness and good health.

I think, believe and expect that there is no one to save. I think, believe and expect salvation has always been, is and will always be mine regardless of how I behave during my brief life or how I choose to ornament a model of self and world with myth. I believe everyone is already free in the divine eternal love of the soul spirit of world. Because the divine eternal love of the soul spirit is infinitely abundant there is no way that any transgression one may be guilty of during this brief lifetime could in any way result in a loss of freedom or a diminishment of that love. I believe an infinite divine eternal one gives love and freedom unconditionally to all divine eternal souls. There is only one way. This one way is automatically followed by each divine eternal soul and this one way is described in the English language by a series of words whose initial letters in sequential order form the acronym I.D.E.O.L.O.G.Y. I describe this one way using the following series of words: Infinity, Divinity, Eternally, One, Love, Our, Gods, Your Way: I.D.E.O.L.O.G.Y. Way. I think, believe and expect that an infinity, divinity, eternally one frees us to love our gods in our own ways.

I welcome the active participation of anyone who wishes to join me in this effort.

Answer 2

Alternate as in "not the majority"?

I am a Hindu.

Some good websites are
http://www.hindukids.org
http://www.religioustolerance.org
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion
http://www.sacred-texts.com
http://www.hindunet.org
http://www.beliefnet.com


Hindus believe in one God. The images are called murtis, they are symbols and tools used to worship the one God. The murtis help focus the mind in meditation and worship, plus they are symbols of attributes of God. Ganesh, the elephant-headed one, is a good example. The elephant head represents God removing obstacles in or life. He has four arms: in the first is a rope symbolizing God helping us draw closer It, in the second is an axe symbolizing God cutting away at our bad habits and attachments that keep us from God, the third he carries a tray of sweets symbolizing the sweetness and bliss of God, and in the fourth he makes a mudra (hand gesture) that symbolizes God's blessings. He rides a rat which symbolizes the ego and by riding the ego it is saying that we should keep our minds focused on God and let God be our guide. The name "Ganesh" means "celestial lord" reminding us that God is both the entire universe in all forms and yet is also ultimately beyond all forms.

This is probably the one most misunderstood thing about Hinduism.

Also, Hindus don't worship cows. We respect and honor them. Again, cows are sacred symbols. The cow represents sacrifice and devotion. The cow produces milk. Milk is used for drinking and also is used to make butter which is also used for eating. Butter is clarified to make ghee. Ghee is used for cooking and in ancient times was also the oil used for lamps. The cow in ancient times also pulled carts and plows. The cow provides all of these things and yet asks for nothing in return other than food and shelter. The cow is devoted to humanity for all she does and sacrifices much of what it produces for the benefits of all. Other animals also have symbolism attached to them as well.

In fact, Hinduism is an extremely symbolic religion. It uses symbolism a lot!!!!! That's probably why it is so misunderstood because people see things from the outside and never bother to ask the Hindu what the deeper meaning and symbolism really is and therefore people just assume they know but in fact they have misunderstood. They then spread this misinformation to others.

Answer 3

What's considered an "alternate religion" - those who are answering the question might need to know. I mean, there's alternative denominations of Christianity, and there's alternatives to the major three monotheistic religions, and there's alternatives to to "major religions"...

Answer 4

Alternate to what? Are you asking if people practice more than 1 religion at once? Sounds kinda tough...

Answer 5

Your email doesn't work, as it hasn't been confirmed, so I will post response to your other question here>
. I have been a slave to a houseful and heartful of Afghan Hounds for the past 22 years..However, I used to raise working Dobermans and have bred and shown several of the toy breeds...One dog that is quite rare, but not so much that you can't find one..is the Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen. (also known as PBGVs) .http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-18,GGGL:en&q=PBGV&btnG=Search&sa=N&tab=wi
they have been showing up in show rings for the past 15 or so years..and are soooo adorable!

Answer 6

I practice an alternative to religion.

Answer 7

I'm a Unitarian Universalist Myself! Whether You'd call it "alternative" or not , I can't say for sure-but we are a minority-about one half of one percent, according to the latest statistics!

Answer 8

I am a Baptist and I'm pretty strong in my religion. So I wouldn't think of having an alternate religion.

Answer 9

I'm Wiccan. You can find a plethora of information out there on the internet if you just type "Wicca" into a google search.

Answer 10

Alternate to what? All religions are alternatives to all other religions.

Think for yourself. There's a religion for ya!

Answer 11

Here is a good site to give you a glimpse of Indian philosophies (Hinduism collectively) , and culture.

http://www.hinduwisdom.info/contents.htm

http://www.hinduwisdom.info/introduction_to_hinduism.htm