2006-09-30 18:02:03 · 16 answers · asked by Heron By The Sea 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm a Muslim very firm in my beliefs but i do enjoy studying other religions so i have visited a Hindu temple, a Christian church, and a Jewish Synagogue..... all are sacred and beautiful and unique.... almost all will warmly welcome visitors...... i think it is very important to know other faiths so that our opinions are based on facts...
2006-09-30 18:16:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Other denominations? yes. But not for inquiring to change. I did this for 2 years. You learn a lot about something when you DO IT*. Forget what you read about. I assure you, you can get on the Internet and read "Doctrines" of denominations. hahahahha What a joke. Go there and SEE first hand what it is, and then what they really do. I did a 2 year "Obsev", for when I went to school.
I loved it by the truckload. That is something every person should get to do.
I would discourage anyone from doing this unless they are very much "Grounded" in one doctrine. I see too many people that claim to have studied all these different forms of religions. They end of compiling them all together and having a mess that only a bulldozer could shove through.
2006-09-30 18:15:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Which one? The most memorable were the first time I went to a Southern Baptist. The preacher yelled and screamed at us that we were going to burn in hell for almost an hour, asked for money and finally let us out. I felt as if I had been beat up!! The other was when I went to a Pentecostal Church to try to reason with a man who owed my family money (not the best reason to go, but that is the truth). The minister told the people in his sermon that they should not pay their bills--that they should give the money to God instead. I didn't even bother speaking to the man. It has been 14 years and I haven't seen a penny of it yet. Why am I not surprised??
2006-09-30 18:28:49 · answer #3 · answered by Sparkle1 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I visited the Bahai Temple in Chicago. My experience was quite strange. I had a very negative dark feeling. I didn't say anything until the two friends I was with mentioned the same thing. Yet both of them are agnostic and irreligious. So it was not just my own reaction based in my religious psychology. It was just strange all around.
I am good friends with a Bahai in Chicago, but I never mentioned the experience to her.
2006-09-30 18:10:06 · answer #4 · answered by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not believe in religion but I do feel energies and I like the energy I feel in some places of worship... people's energy often pollute the church so I prefer to go when it is empty. The best energy I've felt at a place of worship has been in Catholic churches and Buddhist temples.
2006-09-30 18:08:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Despite the Jewish prohibition against . . .
I've visited a number of churches, including the Vatican and the Church of the Holu Sepulcher, visited mosques, the Bahai gardens, zen buddahist meditation meeting thing, a Sikh service, and some sacrificial thing for Pacha Mama or I don't know what in Peru.
Always felt like a tourist and spectator at all these places - nothing like walking into shul and feeling at home.
2006-10-03 06:33:33 · answer #6 · answered by Ella 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes many of them. Not so much in recent years. I have enjoyed a Several United Methodist churches, several Assemblies of God, & some non-denominational spirit filled churches, that I enjoyed to greater or lesser degrees and found God in each one.
I have visited one congregation from a church that only accepted the New Testament-there was something wrong there. And I have visited a Unitarian Universalist and it was creepy how they avoided talking about Jesus Christ or God.
2006-09-30 18:08:07 · answer #7 · answered by Makemeaspark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not religious, but I've been to several different types of Christian services (Protestant and Catholic), I've visited a mosque, and I've been around a coven of practicing witches--which didn't, of course, have a set place to worship (I think we were in someone's living room, don't really remember).
2006-09-30 18:04:48 · answer #8 · answered by N 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I went to a Church of God with Signs, ( I think that's the right name), better known as Snake Handlers. It was an old wooden church in SW Va. You couldn't pay money to see a better show. I admit I'm an Agnostic, but those people have "faith". LOL
2006-09-30 18:52:30 · answer #9 · answered by Beavis Christ AM 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep.
Hindu Temple = warm and interesting.
Jewish Synagogues = GREAT places.
Vatican = St. Peters+ = MONEY, GOLD, YUK.
Buddhist Temples in Japan = Old, strange.
Shinto Temples = Japan = I very much Like sake!
Shik Temple = strange, quite UNCOMFORTABLE.
Voudun (Voodoo?) home church=New Orleans = VERY interedting but YUK!
and others.........................
2006-09-30 18:09:11 · answer #10 · answered by whynotaskdon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋