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Have you ever had many religions you turned to, before you realized that it's just a bunch of bull? Just asking out of curiosity is all, not going to criticize you because i have.

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Not "many." Just the one my parents raised me in. Prayed to ***, got no answer, that was it.
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I was never an overly-religious person to begin with, but I never fully stopped believing until I lost someone a couple years ago. It just made me kind of...****, I guess. I don't think I ever really got over it.
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I was raised Catholic but as a kid, I never put much thought to it. I just thought Church was boring. And I did do my Communion and quit half way through Confirmation. So I did read the Bible but as it turned out, I'm just an Atheist.
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I've studied a few, Christianity, Judaism and Hinduism...
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...my parents didn't do ***, but they let me go to all sorts of different churches with friends, so I could decide for myself how I felt about religion....I realized at an early age that religion violates my sense of logic...
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I am not an atheist. I am Most definately a Christian. Christianity is bold and thoughtful: faith to atheist
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Boris, you don't need faith to be an atheist. You need faith to believe in something that does not have a shred of evidence.
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Correct! FAITH: Believing in something that has no facts or evidence that it is true...
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..Just like you need faith to 'believe' that science is not evolving at the whim of those who stand to gain from a politiical agenda. - I Really Recommend that book. See if you can scare up a copy. It's an unusually good primer. *** bless..
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I was only exposed to Christianity. By 14, I'd done researching into other religions just to gain more knowledge on them. I was struggling with my religious beliefs since about ten years old, and that was the point where I just stopped because of how stupid, unrealistic and ridiculous it all seemed. Everyone lived in a world they wanted to exist. They're delusional to this day.

The only religion that's truly interested me was Buddhism, but I wont pursue it :P
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I've never been part of a religion nor have i ever believed in any deity.
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Just Christianity. And I don't have the proof to disprove or prove ***.
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Nobody does. Some think they do.
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I was indoctrinated as a Roman Catholic, ventured to a non-denominational "born-again" christian church before I realized I never believed any of that crap.

I did find my wife in one of those churches, so something good came of it! :-)
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Since I'm a Christian, I'll say undecided. Just wanted to say that Christianity is the only faith that offers a Savior. None of the others do.
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That isn't actually true. There are many religions and belief systems that do have a savior type character. My personal favorite is Prometheus who is punished for all eternity for giving humanity fire. There is, of course, Baal, Buddha, Chrishna and a whole host of others that have been called or claimed to have called themselves saviors of humanity.
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They were never called saviors. They were just enlightened people that supposedly knew the way.
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Wrong.. there were many ***/Man Saviors.......You might want to read some history on **** and saviors..

The originality of Jesus

Who was the Son of the highest ***, and the biggest healer in Antiquity? He healed the sick and even raised the dead. Hear and behold: former paralysed walked again, the blind could miraculously see again, and the deaf could listen and the mute speak after the Master's gentle touch! But he did not only heal the body, he also healed the soul. They called him Saviour and Redeemer, and he healed both rich and poor, men and women, young and old, slaves and free men, friends and enemies. In one occasion a paralysed man was brough to him in his bed, and took his bed and left walking after the Saviour had touched him. What was this Saviour's name?

… Asklepios.

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Who was born by a mortal virgin mother and had a divine Father, and was known as the "Saviour of the world"? Before he was born his parents wandered to a bigger town, and prophets had foretold his birth and that he would be a king. This instigated a search for the infant Saviour by a leading figure who wanted to kill him. After growing up the Son of *** was shown all the kingdoms of the world from a high mountain. He also walked on water and when he met his *** his mother ...

























































Wrong.. there were many ***/Man Saviors.......You might want to read some history on **** and saviors..

The originality of Jesus

Who was the Son of the highest ***, and the biggest healer in Antiquity? He healed the sick and even raised the dead. Hear and behold: former paralysed walked again, the blind could miraculously see again, and the deaf could listen and the mute speak after the Master's gentle touch! But he did not only heal the body, he also healed the soul. They called him Saviour and Redeemer, and he healed both rich and poor, men and women, young and old, slaves and free men, friends and enemies. In one occasion a paralysed man was brough to him in his bed, and took his bed and left walking after the Saviour had touched him. What was this Saviour's name?

… Asklepios.

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Who was born by a mortal virgin mother and had a divine Father, and was known as the "Saviour of the world"? Before he was born his parents wandered to a bigger town, and prophets had foretold his birth and that he would be a king. This instigated a search for the infant Saviour by a leading figure who wanted to kill him. After growing up the Son of *** was shown all the kingdoms of the world from a high mountain. He also walked on water and when he met his *** his mother and his favorite disciple stood by him. He then tells his mother: "Do not cry, I'm going to heaven". When he dies he utter: "It is finished" and the earth trembles and darkness cover the land. Then he ascended to heaven, and his greatest achievement was to conquer death.

His name was of course...Hercules.

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We all of course know the Redeemer who was no figure of pagan Greek polytheism. He was the true Saviour who wanted to help and save the sinful humans, by sacrificing himself. But he was willing to do this, out of love, pity and compassion for the humans.

His name:...Prometheus.

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Now, who was the real Son of ***, born by a mortal virgin mother, and often presented as the venerated newborn infant, or depicted riding a donkey? He healed the sick and did numerous wonders, among those making fine wine from plain water. He was killed but resurrected from the dead and became immortal. The followers of this *** often ate a holy meal in a kind of sacramental union with the deity to achieve immortality after their death. One of this ***'s finest achievements was his death, his sacrifice, which delivers the whole human kind.

The *** was the very popular Dionysos.

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Who is the "Light of the World", the One, the *** who defeated death? Born of a virgin mother, considered the first true King by the people. Who rose from the grave and ascended to heaven. He defeated death, and must be considered the single true ***.

Of course the Egyptian Osiris!

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Now, the real *** often called the "Light of the world", "The good shepherd", "The lamb" and is "…the way, the truth, and the life". Identified with a cross. Who could that be?

Horus, (the son of Osiris).

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The original "Light of the world" was the mediator between *** and man and was born on the 25.th of December. Local shepherds witnessed his birth and gave him gifts. He had 12 disciples, and when his work was done on earth he gathered together to a last supper, and then ascended to heaven. At doomsday he will return to pass judgment on both the living and the dead. The righteous will go to heaven and the sinful will be killed in a giant fire. Sunday is his holyday, and this religion gave us the seven days of the week. His followers called each other "brothers" and their leaders "fathers". They practiced babtism and established a sacred meal ritual, where flesh and blood was symbolically consumed by initiates. Above earth was heaven, and below the dark **** with demons and the sinners.

The 'Light of the World' is of course the sungod Mithra.

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Wise men were led to his birth by a star, and his conception was miraculous. After his birth the ruler in the area wanted him dead and started a hunt for the *****. But his parents were warned by a heavenly messenger who told them to escape over the river with the holy *****. Here, he was met by shepherds. The boy grew up and did many great deeds, and was the mediator between *** and man.

His name: Krishna.

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Who then, was the *** whose mother was told by an angel that she would give birth to a holy ***** destined to be a Saviour? Even as a ***** he instructed the priests in the temple in religous matters, while his parents were looking for him. He started his religious career when he was ca 30 years of age, and surrounded himself with 12 disciples. One of the disciples is his favorite another is a traitor. He and his disciples abstain from wealth and travel around talking in parables and metaphors. This *** called himself "Son of Man" and was referred to as "Prophet", "Master" and "Lord". He did many great wonders and healed the sick, blind could see again and deaf hear.
He also walked on water. When one of his disciples tried to do the same, he started to sink - his faith was not strong enough.

We are here obviously talking about Buddha.

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Our Saviour cannot be mistaken for any other. He performed countless miracles on earth, miracles well attested to by bystanders. He healed the sick and the crippled, restored sight to the blind, cast out demons, and even raised the dead! His birth was of a virgin, foretold by an angel. While still a *****, he exhibited extraordinary knowledge of religious scripture. He reformed the corrupt and worldly religions of his day. He was crucified, rose from the tomb and appeared to his disciples to prove to them his power over death, after which he ascended to Heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father. He was known as "the Son of ***!" His message is of love and compassion.

We give you: Apollonius of Tyana*

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And there is of course the ***-man, the prophet, the fou
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Lets stick with those that are real. And yes, Jesus was written about in other books besides the bible.
No mythology.
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I became a Christian when I was about 11. At that time I was very vulnerable and felt unloved. Accepting Jesus filled that void. As I got older less and less made sense to me. I do miss the comfort that religion brought me, but I do not have faith in those beliefs any more.
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I've never been religious.
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I started out fundamentalist xtian and finally saw through it.
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What a wonderful family legacy! Good for your grandparents for breaking the cycle!
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I was a Christian, realized it was silly. After that I looked around at other religions but never really "tried them out" so to speak.
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I was raised in a general Christian house, but it might didn't ever fit with my thoughts.... I didn't go any farther than that really except reading about other religions.
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I studied up on all kinds of religions, if that's what you're asking. I realized they all had the same premise and the same patterns used to create fear, control, anger, and stifle thought. It's all quite obvious once you look at it objectively. Even if one of them were 'true' (although I don't think any of them are) they're all essentially the same and there's really no way to tell which one is correct. It would be like trying to find one specific mythical needle in a haystack of identical mythical needles. ;) No, I'm pretty sure none of these needles are divine. :P
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I was raised without really believing anything, and when I started asking questions to my parents they decided to bring me to a local church. I talked with the pastor for about a year and became a Christian. I was lucky that he was intelligent, as there are a lot of preachers out there who only preach about money, politics, and *************.
http://coldcasechristianity.c...
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After not being able to logically reconcile faith with reality in the catholic faith of my upbringing, I saw no reason to attempt in any other *** based religious belief systems.
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Religion is dangerous but a belief system of some sort is necessary to people with a spiritual dimension. The idea that there is something higher than humanity isn't a worthless one.
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I'm the third generation of atheists in my family so the last people that had anything to do with any kind of religion were my great grandparents.
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At the age of eight, I tried Buddhism for a while. Then, Christianity for about a week, before I realized that it's all a bunch of crap.
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Not "many." Just the one my parents raised me in. Prayed to ***, got no answer, that was it.
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Never been a practitioner of any religion.
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I was raised Episcopal by my parents and did that until I met the woman who became my wife. She was Roman Catholic so we raised our kids that way and I went to her church during that time. Then I became interested in looking for proofs of the existence of ***, and when I was unsuccessful in finding any, I became an atheist. But interestingly, while I was an atheist, I was solicited by missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (commonly known as Mormons) and invited them into my house for more information about them. I became so interested in their history that I went to their church for a few months and found them to be the friendliest, kindest Christian people that I had ever met in my life (much more than all the Catholics and other Protestants I had known)!
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I was raised catholic but I don't think I ever really was. I did become Pagan (I went through like 3 very different Wiccan churches) for a while before I learned that I really just didn't care. It didn't matter if there was a ***. I was alive and fine. What did I need a *** for?
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Hi. That depends on what you mean by religions. I was raised catholic but did not believe. Lived a long time as an agnostic atheist. Had a "born again" experience later in life. Dabbled in Protestant fundamentalism for a little while, moved to non-denominational, then to heretic/deist Christian, and finally back to agnostic atheist again.

I was always near the Christian tradition, but was always against organized religion. I have studies religions other than Christianity, but never as a follower.

I would be interested in hearing more about your spiritual journey.

Take care!
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I was born in an atheistic family and in an atheistic country. I got in a close contact with religion when I was thirty: I moved to a highly religious country, the US, and married a religious guy. For me it was just too late to get into fairytale-like beliefs but I know it was not too late for some other people of the same background as mine. I guess it depends on how your brain processes the information you get. People see the same things differently.
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Raised as a fundamentalist Christian--began to really think about it--became a religious pantheist, then dabbled a little in Buddhism, then after studying evolution and philosophy, settled with de facto atheism.
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When selecting religion does "other" mean no belief or not sure?

dsban
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Just a habit i have, i try not to post other depending on the subject.
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Oh, the irony! There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.
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