<p>^^^ My uncle disowned me. But that's ok, really. Even my Irish Catholic grandfather now believes in Buddhism. Until he's around his sisters (all 3 of whom are nuns), then he is a good Catholic boy again. I love it =].</p>
<p>I'm way too fine w/ my religion :) has no plan of exploring.</p>
<p>I was raised in the Bible Belt. Need I say more?</p>
<p>My mother was ,according to her, raised Buddhist, but after immigrating here converted to Christianity, though not a particular denomination. I attended a Korean church when I was really little, and then we went to our town mega-Evangelical-whiteaswonderbread-church. Yeah.</p>
<p>Nothing against Southern Baptists, but they take themselves uber-seriously. Homosexuality=Satan, abortion=Satan, not speaking up in Sunday School=Satan. By the time I was in 7th grade and formed my world-view, I saw it as a bunch of hogwash, and my mom and I faded from attending.</p>
<p>Lately I've been a lot more interested in religion itself. The Espiscopal Church seems to appeal me, although my mother wouldn't like that very much. I plan on converting when I get older. I can stand a year or so of this new Korean church. It's not like I'll know what they're saying anyways.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, my dad was raised Roman Catholic (upstate NY), but he doesn't really go anymore, although I can tell he still believes.</p>
<p>My dad still goes to the same type of church services that he grew up attending -- he has found his religious "niche", I suppose, and is all too happy to remain there.</p>
<p>I'm with alamode...arguments about the "right" religions or "this religion versus that religion" seem silly to me. Most of the principles that organized religions adhere to are similar, if not the same.</p>
<p>don't really believe in any but interested in their studies, it's more fun to be able to look at all of them w/out unnecessary bias :)</p>
<p>My mother was raised Lutheran until she was about ten or so, then Unitarian (when she was ten, she went to her mother all upset over the fact that according to their church, her Jewish friend was going to hell, so my grandmum brought them over to a Unitarian church). My dad, I'm not sure what he was raised.</p>
<p>I was technically raised Unitarian, but we only went every now and then. I still consider myself of the Unitarian church, and my beliefs are agnostic. (If I were to pick a major world religion to become, however, it would be Islam.)</p>
<p>My aunt and uncle are Unitarian. I went to the church one time. Tell me if I'm remembering this right, it's a Christian church but they believe in one God instead of the Trinity? That doesn't sound right. Can you clarify?</p>
<p>I am unconcerned about religion. I seriously just don't think of it.</p>
<p>If you force me to choose, though, I'd pick atheism.</p>
<p>I was baptised as Greek Orthodox because my dad's side of the family is Greek, but my mom is Protestant. I don't attend either church enough to notice differences between the two religions, but I do believe in God.</p>
<p>apparantly i'm catholic, but i SO dont agree w/the majority of their beliefs (ie the politically conservative ones)...but my mom practices buddhism and my dad practices sleeping in church</p>
<p>Ahh...sleeping in church! Second only to passing out in church --which, unfortunately, I have done before. Yikes! :)</p>
<p>Hmm...sleeping is good. Something I should do more of...</p>
<p>But sometimes there are bagels and coffee after mass, so that's a definite plus:)</p>
<p>I'm reform jewish by birth, but atheist for a couple of years. I tend to tell people i'm pastafarian.</p>
<p>My family is all Christian, and I was raised one, and got as far as communion (no confirmation). I became an atheist, then agnostic, and now I'm looking into Buddhism, I'd really like to convert and I'm slowly trying to practice the beliefs more seriously. </p>
<p>My parents don't support me at all, and I can't imagine telling my grandparents. ;P</p>
<p>"Most of the principles that organized religions adhere to are similar, if not the same."
^-- I seriously disagree with this ... I won't impose one religion over another but I think it's serious disrespect to all of the religions out there and classifying them as "same" or with negligible differences. no offense though really.</p>
<p>But anyway, I am a Presbyterian.. I have been Christian since I was born and I can tell you that I am a complete philosophy and theology freak. I read Locke, Aquinas, Augustine, Kant for fun! and sometimes I formulate my ideas into papers when I have time. Right now I am into reading Catholic theology though. I plan to attend a Catholic mass sometime in the near future.. and hopefully an Islamic service as well!</p>
<p>I'm a very liberal Roman Catholic. I'm actually more religious than my parents, who aren't very religious.</p>
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<p>Reread it. It didn't say the religions were the same, just their principles. A common thread with almost all major world religions is to live a good life so you can go on to a good after life. Their ideas about what kind of after life they have IS different but the principle is the same.</p>
<p>i hope you're not too serious about this. the principles if you look at them specifically, and the motives behind the principles, are all different. can you really say that christianity and islam have the same "living" principles? or islam to hinduism?</p>
<p>I pray to G-zuz. :cool:</p>
<p>Proud88er, like I said before I don't want a religious debate. But yes, many of the same principles are apparent in most major religions. I have devoted the better portion of my life to studying religions and they all have a common thread. For instance, all major religions believe life is sacred.</p>