Two Questions for Religious Folk

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Is this critical questioning a sign of Welshness? I have Welsh ancestry and I like finding out about it. And that's weird to me, to have your religion on your birth certificate.

As to the OP, 1. From early childhood experiences, an interest in history, and through working at my job, which is closed captioning religious TV shows.

2. Depends on what you mean by "better". It is not easy to follow and I really am quite mediocre at it, but if you distinguish the truths of the faith from the flaws of its practicioners, it is pretty dang true.

Religious diversity - Maybe it exists because no one has it right? It's all just a shot in the dark? It's all made up, hence there are so many "truths" to choose from?

"New-age quasi-religions" - By this rationale, Christianity never should have been considered a religious movement because, for a time, it would have fallen under your "new-age quasi-religious" descriptor. Are you saying you need to have a certain number of followers for it to be a real religion, rather than a protest movement? Or it has to have exsited for some arbitrary amount of time? Or both? If an abitrary number of people converted to Wicca, would you then consider it to be a religion?

My personal opinion is that religion is detrimental to mankind. Religions are nothing more than organized cults, often with substantial financial and political resources to pull from (at least in the case of the "true religions").

Oh, I certainly believe that my beliefs are true, and that everyone else's beliefs are false.

I just don't believe that your beliefs are true, and that those with beliefs in opposition hold false beliefs, particularly given that I and my beliefs would constitute a subset.

Hence what I already said.

This I dare not deny entirely. However, as a religious person, I'd like to see that us being a little in the dark is for our own good. It may not be desirable to know too much.


I'm a bit old-fashioned in limiting religion to those three which can be said to have originated from a revelation, either public or private. Wicca hardly falls into such a category, it is entirely man-made and doesn't claim to be otherwise. Christiany was, indeed, a protest movement from the point of view of its early members, and it may be that Jesus of Nazareth never intended to start a new religion, but things went their own course, and little by little a new religion was ground out. What was added to the older version, was an entire theology of the afterlife.


Maybe so. But I find it difficult to imagine faith without some kind a framework around it. This framework I call religion. Be it private religion, as somebody said above.