How many religions did you try before you converted to now?

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Join the club, we have jackets.

Wheres my jacket!?

How can you 'try' a religion? Do you attempt to believe in it's respective God and follow its rules and decide it's not for you or something? How can one believe in something that universal and later dismiss it so easily?

Though I'm not christian, I've learnt some important facets of life from christianity.

Though I'm not buddhist, I've learnt some important aspects of meditation from it.

Though I wouldn't call myself solely agnostic, I believe its impossible to prove the unknowable.

The mass interpretation is generally a watered down version of the fundamental truths found within each religion. Wisdom can be found in all of them.

I didn't try them on like a coat, I simply wanted to understand them.

So I don't understand how someone can "attempt" to believe in something, you either do, or you don't.

Sure your perception will change, but not your fundamental understandings of reality, they must be grounded somewhere.

I think we can "choose" our religion, e.g. my mom chose to stay RC through a lifetime of faith-wobblies.

I've been RC, Buddhist, Wiccan, etc. I tried a lot of Protestant religions but they were all too friendly for me, and not meditative at all. Oh - Course in Miracles, is that a religion?

I've always been a theist. Eventually I went back to the RC because that's a good place for me to pray. I don't agree with the RC catechism and I won't join a parish. I haven't been there in 3 years but I miss praying.

What makes you think that god is unknowable? Besides, proof isn't necessary. I would never ask for proof of anything. It's evidence that is needed.


Awesome, count me in.

I was originally a follower of islam, and used at a very young aged used to live in yemen. But moved to england aged 8, where we decided to convert to christianity. When i was 14, due to my inablity to make many friends my parents took me to see someone, where i was told i had aspergers syndrome. I have tried to make many friends on these forums, but this has only made me more depressed and made me feel more alone, due to peoples horrible anti-religious beliefs.

I was raised in a non-religious household. I was never baptized, and it wasn't until I was in the third grade that I first heard about "God". Other than a brief flirtation with Buddhism when I was in my early 20's, I've always been an atheist.

Are they black?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism
now
ill even rank them for you
1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity sadistic prick that wanted to be rememberd
2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism sadistic prick that wanted ultimate justice
3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism sadistic prick that wanted ultimate justice
some people even call themselfs enlightend and brain wash those around them to win the game
said aint it

my parents were christian so that was my religion during my younger life... then i was interested in paganism > wicca > satanism > atheism

although i should stress that i wasn't really into the religious beliefs, i was more into the philosophy behind each religion.

right now i'm hardcore strong atheist, with a bit of satanist and wiccan philosophy plus some other philosophies i got during my travels through life

I was a natural atheist. Something felt cheesy about religion as practiced, and I eventually concluded that the idea of a ghost in the machine was simply implausible and wasteful. Emotional prostitution just doesn't appeal to me.

Evidence is proof is it not?

God by definition is omnipotent, and omniscient.

So beyond all that we can possibly know. Right?

To me a beautiful metaphor for the summit that can not be reached.

What one calls got another calls belief.

I worship infinity, which I find in reality, so yes it is self-evident.

However I will throw myself into what I know, building upon this to journey into the unknown.

Of course what is beyond comprehension is evident.. I'm not asking for proof, I'm saying the quest for such proof, positive or negative, is pointless to me.

To know the unknowable would be to cease living and moving.

You're on an AS forum, dude. Metaphors just make us run screaming for the hills.

But a meta-four? that would be an interesting discussion about math!

What does Werbertism involve, other than not coming back(even when you do), hatred of November, and living in wrecked sunken ships glorified in song?