2007-09-11 00:27:35 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Assuming you had a choice!
2007-09-11 00:28:01 · update #1
That's really hard to say. There were so many pagan religions and it was so widespread that it's probably more likely I would have worshipped Greek or Roman gods.
2007-09-11 00:34:18 · answer #1 · answered by Michael B - Prop. 8 Repealed! 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If I had a choice and I wasn't indoctrinated or coerced into belonging to a certain religion then I probably would have been what I was for most of my adult life, an agnostic.
As someone who was raised in the previous age of rationalism (as opposed to the current age of secular humanism, situational ethics, and relative truth), I was only willing to believe in something that could be proved to me. That's one reason why I wasn't an atheist since it cannot be proved that God does not exist. I was always open to the idea that there could be a supernatural creator because it was obvious to me that this universe doesn't make sense when considered within the box of 4 dimensions, the 4th dimension being time.
Since it doesn't make any sense that matter has just always existed with no explanation for how it got here in the first place, a "big-bang" needs something to go "bang" with, I realized that there had to be something more to explain our existence. That's why I say that before Jesus came I would most likely have been an agnostic, someone who was open to the idea of God but who didn't think any particular religion had a monopoly on the truth.
2007-09-11 07:48:31 · answer #2 · answered by Martin S 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If I had been born in the same location, but in the time before Jesus, I would have been a Native American, and probably my religion would have been with the Great Spirit.
If I had been born where some of my ancestors were I would have been a Druid.
And if I had been born where others of my ancestors were at that time, I would have been pagan.
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2007-09-11 10:34:04 · answer #3 · answered by Lu 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I doubt it. I would have probably been an atheist. The Jews were obscure and exclusive back in the day. And the Pagan religions strike me as a little dumb. (no offense to anyone) If I was in the far east I would have been a Buddhist, their God is monotheistic I believe and they are certainly not exclusive.
2007-09-11 07:36:28 · answer #4 · answered by Dennis W 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It all depends on where you were from and where your ancestors lived.......
Most Gentiles probably would have followed whatever their progenitors followed I imagine. If you were from the Middle East, chances are good you might have been a Jew.
For example my ancestors were from northwestern Europe - we would probably have been following Asatru or something like that.
2007-09-11 07:38:45 · answer #5 · answered by the phantom 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Religion depends on who taught you ,through verbal or written arguments, not on truth or any other form of reasoning. So it would depend where and to whom you were born, mainly.
A new religion comes along and it's bandwagon time, evangelism rules.
2007-09-11 07:41:12 · answer #6 · answered by OpinionatedPants 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I used to be Christian, so I'll go ahead and answer (despite my atheism). I'd probably be whatever was most popular depending on my geographical location. But who knows? Maybe I still would have ended up atheist. I'd like to think so, but you know how it goes...nature vs. nurture.
btw...I don't like you, A2Z. Thumbs down. :)
2007-09-11 07:43:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
good question
probably, unless I had been born a roman
then I probably wold have had, a dungeon full of chicks
a hundred barrels of wine ..and some grapes
2007-09-11 08:25:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
If I heard or saw all the wonderful works the Jewish God did for them, I would surely want to be part of them.
2007-09-11 07:37:04 · answer #9 · answered by papa G 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sheesh... there would not have been to many options at that time.. Being Jewish may have been one of them.
Is there something wrong with being Jewish?
2007-09-11 07:30:58 · answer #10 · answered by minitrail70 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋