How did you find your religion?

Question

Where did it come from?
Have you researched other religions so you know you have the right one for you?
Do you think your religion is the only true one? If so Why do you think that?
Have you ever had 'the dark night of the soul' and completely questioned everything you ever believed in or got told about religion
Which Religion do you subscribe to?
Tell me everything

Love and Light
Rachie
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Answer 1

by accident, im a spiritualist, and no i dont think my religion is the best, everyone has thier own beliefs and i respect that.

Answer 2

I've talked with other people about their beliefs, mostly because I find people interesting. And I've read up on most of the more mainstream religions.

I'm a life-long depressive, so I've had plenty of dark nights of the soul, and the heart, and the mind.

I've always questioned everything, and I always will.

My religion is not the only true one. There are as many ways of believing and knowing as there are people who believe and know.

I've known since I was a child that I'm a pagan though I didn't have the words for it then. Sometimes I still look for the exact words I want. I probably always will.

Answer 3

it came from jesus himself. If i look throughout my life i have been in a position where i could have become a christian but for the past thirty years have tried to live without any kind of faith. It didnt work and i got involved is some bad stuff and hurt a lot of people. I was introduced to an alpha course and slowly just felt right, felt a peace and i just knew thats what had been missing my whole life.

Being a new chrisitian is not easy and i question my faith all the time. Especially as someone i knew was tragically killed at the hands of another very recently and i have had to defend my beliefs to those who dont understand about forgiveness when i am challenged by them myself. As this happens, i turn to the lord and ask advice, i turn to my church friends who support and guide me and i hand everything back to him. Its great having complete trust in something and to understand that there is a reason for everything whether i understand it or not.

I think there are many religions and many peoples versions of the truth. Do i think christianity is the only right truth? yes otherwise i wouldnt be a christian. I guess i wont know until my last day.

I am a baptist Christian.

Answer 4

Wow, what a question. I do not have a religion, but I am intensely Spiritual. My life is my spiritual practice, in fact it not only saved my life but actually gave me a life. It feels a little scary to answer because this is my life story. Yes, I studied many, many religions. Yes, I have experienced the Dark Night of the Soul with a few really good abyss thrown in for good measure. Since I do not practice a organized religion I can hardly think it is the right one. I was raised Catholic by a insane woman & was horribly abused. I was deeply spiritual as a child, but asked a lot of questions. I have always had this wonderful truth-sense. When their answers {priest & mom} did not match this truth sense, the church fell in my eyes. The problem was, I was so young I could not separate church from God. I was 14. I search & researched for a very long time. At about 26 I hit a bottom & really prayed, "God, I don't know what it is I need, or where it is, but I have tried everything. Send it quick & make it plain cause I'm kinda stupid". The answer to that prayer came in 3 days. I was taught & studied a oral spiritual tradition. It is Christian, but it is not traditional. For over 20 years we intensely studied the bible as well as other spiritual books & writings. I was always encouraged to seek the answers for myself, to never just take some ones word for anything of a spiritual nature, that it was my birth right to have this connection with God, & that direct revelation was the only true authority, coming from God directing to his Son. I do not know of any others like us, it was orally handed to me as my Mentor before me. I hope this answers your question.

Answer 5

I found my religion by having a history of it in my family.
It came out of the political upheavals during the seventeenth century.
I had found Zen Buddhism quite helpful but stopped short of actively practising it with others until I was already on the path to my current religion at which point I made a choice.
I think my religion is the most true for me but others might find differently - I believe there are many religions to suit the many different temperaments of followers.
I haven't had a 'dark night of the soul', but I had a 'dark night of the mind' and in that condition the truth of my soul revealed itself.
I am a Quaker.

Answer 6

Actually, I lost my religion. And I'm relieved that I don't have to live "that way" anymore.

I found my spirituality. It came from Alcoholics Anonymous, and from persistent (thank the God/desses and denizens of Elfhame) ancestral guidance. That in itself is a very long story, but the ancestral guidance has always been there, and the necessary A.A. involvement was a catalyst to set the right path in place for me. That is, initially I did not choose, I was "chosen" if one wants to look at it that way. I could have, however, chosen not to agree to this path after I finally figured it out, but I have found that my life becomes much easier to bear if I choose to agree with the guidance.

Yes, since I became aware that life's mysteries were more importantly spiritual than religious, I've been on a life-long study of all belief systems, not just religions. I haven't researched them to "convince" myself I "have" the "right one" though... I research them so that I not only know my own belief system, but I understand it much clearer.

No. I do not follow religion (group agreement on a set of beliefs), so I do not believe my belief system is the "only way", the "right way" or the "true one". There are as many paths to Divine as there are people in this world.

Yes. I've experienced the Dark Night of the Soul. As I mentioned, alcoholism was the first. The second was loosing everything I owned and having to file bankruptcy. I just survived my third one, concerning a debilitating illness physicians could not treat but I have overcome on my own. My personal understanding (spirituality) of life's mysteries is stronger than ever because of it.

As I said, I do not hold to religion. I am not a "follower" of group restrictions. I am a spiritual being. I am connected perosnally to the Divine Mystery. My path is that of a Welsh faerie shaman, a spiritual path.

Answer 7

I have read all I can find on Religions and find that most wars are caused by Religions so really don't want no part of any that killing stuff. Lead a good life and try and help my brothers along the way. Like some things about the Buddhist Religion and they will not kill an earth worm. So guess if the whole world believed like this the wars would stop.and we would all become Vegetarians.

Answer 8

How did I 'find' it? I was simply raised Catholic by my parents, but I am straying away from it -and yes I am researching other religions actually. I like this question :-)
I am not sure which one is right for me yet. I don't think any religion is 'the' true one, but rather a different way to go about life and way of ....worshipping. I don't know what you mean by 'the dark night of the soul'. Right now I don't really follow a religion-as I said-I am inbetween faiths I guess you could say. Thanks for asking!

Answer 9

Where did it come from?
Siddhartha Gautama

Have you researched other religions so you know you have the right one for you?
Yes, I researched many other religions before choosing mine

Do you think your religion is the only true one? If so Why do you think that?
No, there are other ways to become enlightened...

Have you ever had 'the dark night of the soul' and completely questioned everything you ever believed in or got told about religion
Yes, it lasted four years...

Which Religion do you subscribe to?
Theravada Buddhism...

Answer 10

I found it through many ways and one of them is by thinking from all the sources come to me. The more it come the more I realize about it, religion. The more I realized about it the more I want to know about it.

Yes, I did researched the other religion faith and believe until now from the past of my childhood.

I believe my religion is the best and the true one. Becouse I love it from the truth it hold.

Sometimes I did but I know that it is a 'whispered of the evil' in my ear, mind, heart and soul. That's very dangerous to me. It confused me much. And likely to become aggresive person.

I'm into Islam religion.

Answer 11

I grew up in a family of 'nonpracticing Catholics' so I never really got much religious education from them. However, I did search on my own. I read sutras, and the Bible, and others texts. I learned about Asatru, and Buddhism, and Roman Catholicism, and Islam, and Scientology, and a multitude of other beliefs. I read philosophy and studied religious history. I visited different places of worship, mainly of the Abrahamic faiths. I talked with people about their beliefs, and why they believed them. Through diligent study and evaluation, I found a pagan religion that fits me like a glove.
But how do I feel about other beliefs? That every religion is valid in its own right, and that everyone has their own path. I am grateful for the religious diversity of the world. Each religion has something to offer for the greater of humanity. Whether it be the Earth-saving Wiccans or Charity-giving Christians.