Do you care if your religion (or lack of) is "right"?

Question

I see so many Christians preaching "Because it's the true religion!" "Because MY denomination is the RIGHT one"
I could care less if my religion is right. I always thought it was be hilarious if the atheist were right. I like my religion, it makes ME happy. I don't care if I'm "right" or "wrong".
So my question to people is, do you care if it's right, or do you care that it's right for YOU?

I didn't say I didn't think it was right. I said I don't care if it is or not. I believe it. I know it's real to me. That's all I care about.

baba: since we are getting all technical here, why don't you look up what delusional academically means. There is a line drawn in the psychological community between what delusion is and is not.

Yeah kidzed, those Greeks and Egyptians were just plain moronic. Nothing intelligent about them at all.

Odin doesn't call to some Heathens let alone "just anyone" LOL Frau

Answer 1

I have never worried about what other people think. Those who inisist they are right and everyone else is wrong are usually terrified hypocrites. I leave them alone, they've got enough trouble as it is.

Answer 2

Do you understand the definition of the word "religion". Here is the Oxford Dictionary definition:

Oxford dictionary definition (theistic): "1 the belief in a superhuman controlling power, esp. in a personal God or gods entitled to obedience and worship. 2 the expression of this in worship. 3 a particular system of faith and worship."

Now we could break it down further by defining the words "belief", "obedience" and "worship". I would hope you understand that the word "religion" implies that the faith held by the adherents of the religion in question are believers and they are obedient. This means that no matter what others think, the adherents are correct and all others are in error. This is a very irrational position but is the essence of belief.

Now the stance you take places you between the rational and the irrational. Both sides see you as delusional. From a rational point of view, you are mildly delusional but you don't think enough of your beliefs to stand up for them when the irrational members of your belief system take over and speak for you. From the irrational point of view, you are a apostate, heretic or sinner going to hell.

I'm glad your "religion" makes you happy but you will always have this problem. In effect, by saying that you don't care if you are "right" or "wrong" means that you have no personal stake in your preferred "religion". It means nothing to you, it's comfortable like a old pair of slippers but is just as disposable.

I hope you understand that I am sympathetic but most of what you are feeling is due to having "religion" drilled into since you were a child and so deep down you feel that you need to believe but like many of us are not satisfied with the rote dogma that is recited when you ask a serious question. I encourage you to continue to explore and read. I think you are a good candidate to become rational with more education.

PS Must have caused you to pause, glad you took the time to read my answer and respond. The words and the definitions you use are important in communicating the ideas you're trying to express. My apologies if you are confused by the words. I'm not using the clinical definition of delusional, I'm using the following:

A delusion is commonly defined as a fixed false belief and is used in everyday language to describe a belief that is either false, fanciful or derived from deception.

Answer 3

It would be pretty cool if mine was right but then again how can anyone truly know until they passed on? If I'm wrong then someone else was right then it would suck pretty badly to end up in some kind of hell, limbo, purgatory or etc.

Yeah I do care if I chose the right one but then again why should I worry about it as long as I feel that I am making the world a better place and making other peoples lives better. That got to count for at least something.

Answer 4

Religion is a personal preference...if you are happy with how you feel go for it.....i do not believe that one religion is better than another....i believe that the bible can be view in many way....just like when you play the game telephone....by the end of the conversation you don't even have the same message that you started out with...i do not believe we have to have huge churches to honor God...i feel this is materialistic...i think he is with you anywhere....i believe many people who are in church are there to be seen...ask them what they learned and i'll bet some can't answer it....the biggest no no of all...is judging people....there is no one that has the right to judge another on this planet for what they believe or don't believe....if they are...ex: someone saying your going to you know where...if you don't.....that is my biggest problem....life you life the way you feel you should...if your happy with your life..then so be it...don't let anyone tell you different.

Answer 5

Yes, the whole point of a religion is that you believe it's what right. Not just choosing one because it makes you happy, because -that- is called using religion as an emotional crutch.

I'd like to point out I said "is that you -believe- it's what's right". Not that you claim to -know-. Claiming to know for sure is a completely different story.

If you believe that you're right, but you don't completely deny the possibility of you being wrong, I think that's the right way to do it.

Answer 6

You ask the question I have asked people for years. I ask them to explain their purpose for being "with" their particular religion. 90%+ cannot give me an answer for they don't have a clue to their religion's theology. I find it ludicrous and quite laughable that these people will spend their life and their money in this particular religion and they don't know one thing (2 things) about it!
Most people just have this thing for God and don't care how they worship Him. This is why there are so many "religions". Religion is man-made. Faith is God-made.

Personally, I am an Evangelical agnostic with Jewish roots and a Lutheran appetite with a love of Buddha and Krishna.
I know I'm "right!"

Answer 7

I would hate to invest my life in something that was wrong. And it's because it has brought me so much joy that I want to share it with others. But I'm reading a great book now called "You don't have to be wrong for me to be right" by Rabbi Brad Hirschfield that clarifies a lot of what I feel about respecting other people's religious choices and how the Divine works in their lives.

BTW, hope you've been having a good Yule and have a Happy New Year!

Answer 8

I'm right behind you in being among the first around here to say that my religion isn't for everyone. I truly don't think Odin is calling everyone in the world to heathenism.

It's right for me. It fits what I've wanted out of a religion: acceptance and challenge, exciting and balanced, courageous and welcoming, difficult and responsible oriented.

I'm called to the religion and to All Father and Freya. Whether I meet and pass all the tests thrown at me in life, we'll see.

Answer 9

i'm an atheist, what you call a 'passive atheist', nonetheless greater suitable effectively termed an agnostic or undesirable or susceptible atheist, in that I lack theory in any deities despite the fact that do no longer declare certainty that no conceivable supernatural deity might exist. i think that's gorgeous no longer likely, besides the certainty that. despite that makes me seem 'lively' in this place isn't my atheism. that's my rational skepticism or my secularism or my theory that an concept that may not be in a position to stand as much as grievance isn't worth having. None of those concerns remember upon atheism, despite the fact that those concerns prepare an mind-blowing style of the time convey approximately atheism.

Answer 10

I don't care if others believe my religion or lack of, is right or wrong. It's not their spiritual path that I am walking, it's mine. Therefore mine to enjoy but I will share my path if anyone decides they want to walk with me even for only a little while. Still at some point they will need to make their own path.

Answer 11

It's right for me, that's all.

Religion is not supposed to make you unhappy. It's supposed to provide some sort of comfort, a way of accepting that which cannot be wholly understood. My religion does that for me, framing mysteries in a way that I cannot exactly understand (that's why they're called 'mysteries') but can accept and work on, around, or with.