Did you study lots of other religions in depth before you picked yours?

Question

What was it about the others that you didn't agree with?,I guess you don't believe in your religion because you were brought up that way?Please don't quote from your holy books because there are many of them,oh and don't say god told you.

Can you answer the main question?it's quite simple.

Answer 1

I took a good hard look at the various Xians sects before looking elsewhere.

I looked at the history as well as the reasons for why each sect split from their parent splinter group.

It was not an easy task - NOT to be taken lightly.

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Answer 2

I have kind of a different answer. The short answer is yes.

But I actually do not have a religion. While I'm not 100% atheist, I am agnostic and do not practice a religion. I was raised Catholic and never, never enjoyed it. I hated every minute of it. I checked out other denominations of Christianity and, while some were better thatn others, I came to the conclusion that Christianity was nothing more than a fairy tale.

After that, I studied Buddhism, Wicca and a few other religions just to see what they were all about. While I do respect Buddhism and Wicca quite a bit, I decided that religion really wasn't for me, especially since I wasn't quite so sure that a god even existed. So, yeah, you could say that I did quite a bit of shopping around!

Answer 3

Yes. I studied quite a few of the major religions and a few of the least popular ones. I was born into the Catholic faith. My Stepfather was Jewish. I dated a few Muslim women. I did extensive research on all of them as well as Hinduism, Shintoism, Wicca, and Buddhism.

Most religions ended up turning me off because of some deep seated hypocrisy, or completely illogical happenstance that was demanded be believed on faith alone. Logic is not a friend to most religions.

The closest thing to a religion I live my life by is Taoism. If we all tried to follow in the footsteps of the Taoist ancestors, I gather most people would be able to tolerate each other and the world a little better.

EDIT: I did marry a Christian/Catholic, and never once tried to "convert" her to atheism. In fact she was always saddened by the fact that I was not christian. That is, until she took a course in college that forced her to study other religions. After careful examination of her own and other religions, she came to the truth all on her own.

She is a more avid atheist than I am now. ;)

Answer 4

In varying degrees of depth. I learned enough about them to use what I could and then moved on. I was calling myself a witch for some 25 years, most of which was because the man I loved was my High Priest in ceremonial magic. Now I'm waffling between agnostic and pantheist and atheist. But I'm a member of the Ethical Society, which is technically a religion, at least for the purposes of First Amendment protection. Our motto is "deed before creed," and I'm gradually turning into an activist on that basis.

Answer 5

I was born an atheist. When I encountered religion in the form of Christianity I studied it in depth, read the Bible and tried to find any redeeming features, but it was clearly a silly fantasy.

I examined other religions briefly to see if they were any different. They weren't: all claimed knowledge they didn't have, and provided answers that were at odds with reality.

I regard the arguments over which religion is more plausible or 'best' as hair-splitting. It's all quite plainly laughable nonsense. To an outsider it resembles vultures squabbling over a rotting corpse.

CD

Answer 6

I was Baptized as a baby and then sent to Sunday School from first grade thru 8th....I'm not sure religion should be pushed on people this way...and although I know I have the choice to change...it just doesn't seem right at this point, I have a hard time NOT believing in certain things now.

To answer your main question then...no.

Answer 7

I am by birth a hindu. it means that for census and statistical purposes, I shall be counted as a hindu. but I donot totally believe in any religion. I am an atheist and independently judge the issues. On some point, hinduism may be correct and on other christianity or islam could be correct. there are also similarities among various religions and some differences. I have studied some hindu and some christian religious literature but not impressed by any.

Answer 8

In middleschool I read the KJV of the Bible the first time. From there I began reading every holy book I could find and researching any religion I could find info on.

That led to me bouncing from religion to religion for about 6 months each. Eventually I ended up in a Southern Baptist seminary, dropped out, and a year later realized that while logically I was against it, my complete lack of faith leaves me an atheist. No matter how logical it is, I just do not believe in a theistic concept of God.

I was brought up to be a passive Christian-we never went to church until my parents split up, then we went with my dad until my mom moved back in. Never went back, but we're expected to at least pretend to be Christian for the family.

Answer 9

I was almost going to be a Christian doing some research on daemons(for creative purposes),and I thought about me being possessed and stuff,because you don't usually do things like imaginative world of daemons(as long as your not Japanese) when everybody think the worlds going to end,so I got a little scared almost in to picking up a Bible and read it,lucky me God showed me the way....that God is BS,and everything can be explained in a few words,if God spoke any words this would be it:
"You have been lied to."(tm)

Answer 10

I wasn't brough up with Christianity. In fact I was brought up with no religion at all. I can't say I studied other religions in depth, but when I found God...or found Christianisty...I knew it was right. There's some things you know deep in your heart to be true and nothing anyone says is ever going to change it. Everyone experiences that. That's how I knew Christianity, is the true, only, religion from which you can receive salvation.