I think that no religion is evil and that the whole Crusade thing of trying to convert the "pagan" to Christianity is kind of narrow minded. Christ never said to go out and convert people, He said to love your neighbor and your God. Basically, you don't have to get involved with "fixing" other people.

I think that all religions are "true" and that if their principles are followed, everyone will find their "heaven." I don't think there is any "wrong" religion; the Muslim extremists just simply distort the true purpose of what their religion dictates so that they can vent their own personal anger.

If you really get down to the bare bones of religion, you find that they are all really similar in a lot of ways. 

I remember a book called One God: The Ways We Worship Him

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Well, what I have to say about religion, no religion is better than the other. Mormons aren't better than Jews, and Muslims aren't better than Hindus. It just doesn't work like that. (I respect people's beliefs about their religion though.) I don't necessarily have a religion, but I do believe in God and other aspects of other religions like Hinduism. Bit of a rant sorry...

Admin: Gollum, you made an interesting point, but I tend to agree it's not 100% CB appropriate.  

I think everyone's truth is true for themselves. You believe in God, so God exists for you. Some people don't believe in Him, and He doesn't exist for them. I think it's okay for people to have different beliefs. It makes life interesting. If you want to believe that your way is the true way, then it is true for you. We can't monitor other's beliefs.

Some people think that what you believe is how the world is. I am a Baptist Christian, and I don't believe that other religions are wrong, exactly. I just think of it as a different perspective. I've also wondered that because my friend is Hindu, and I was talking to her at recess about religion. Her father is athiest, and her mother is Hindu. She told me she felt forced to believe her mother's beliefs, and didn't quite agree with them herself. But, she said she didn't really believe anyhing and felt empty. So that led me to wondering. If I had grown up in a household with different religious beliefs, would I feel the same about my beliefs? I decided that my calling to God felt too strong, and that I would always feel that way, no matter what.

As other people have said, I don't believe that one religion is the one true religion. Morality and correctness depend less on what you worship and more on how you worship it. There are militant atheists and radical Christians. I have atheist role models and Christian role models and Muslim role models and agnostic role models and all sorts of other religions. And honestly I think that people shouldn't involve themselves in the beliefs of others. Maybe one belief system is true, but there is no implication of what belief system is, so there's no point in trying to prove it. Maybe everyone has their own separate truth, or maybe all religions are versions of the truth, with one overreaching concept similar to what Everrine and Livv mentioned earlier. (And yeah, there's some interesting resources on that. My religion teacher keeps on talking about How Do You Spell God, for instance, though I haven't read it myself.)

So, going off topic here, We are allowed to talk about Muslim, Buddist, Hindu, and other gods, but it is banned to talk about my God. Does that sound fair to you?

I don't think my family has a religion.

My parents never talked about God or Jesus all that much, so I never did either. One day my dad told me about how Christmas started, and he talked a little bit about the birth of baby Jesus, but he didn't go into much detail.

I find it hard to believe that some all-powerful, external being created us all...

But I guess if that didn't happen, it leaves us with no explanation for the Big Bang. So I dunno. I'm kinda leaning towards "we came from monkeys" but maybe it was God.

Who knows? 

@ S.E. 

I think the idea that we aren't allowed to talk about the Christian god is a bit of an exaggeration. We're talking about him (Him?) right now, aren't we?  

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Evolution is rather more complicated than 'we came from monkeys' (specifically, we share a long-extinct common ancestor with certain types of apes) but so far it's the most scientifically sound theory (and I use theory in a vernacular sense here - in a scientific sense, 'theory of evolution' means that it's fully accepted by scientists just like, say, the theory of gravity) that we have. It doesn't, contrary to popular belief, exactly contradict the Bible - it does, of course, if you take every part of the Bible literally, but there is no need to do that. If God is a thing that exists, God may well have set evolution into motion, and created the Earth in what six days was to him (Him?), but what's six days to God as opposed to six days to us? Wouldn't it be different? Especially considering that a day as in '24 hours' is measured by the rotation of the Earth, which, if God was creating it at the moment, wouldn't exist? So a day would have been in God's measure, and we don't know what that is.

TL;DR: there's no need to let taking the Bible literally get in the way of scientific fact, because the two are not mutually exclusive. 

Whether or not a person believes in God seems to be a matter of how their brain is set up. I'm pretty sure most scientists say that there's a gene that seems to indicate whether or not a person will be capable of believing in a higher power. So, if a person has that gene, then how they choose to worship that higher power is entirely up to them. So according to that, no religion is "correct."