How Do You Choose Your Religion?

I know I'm going to get cries of strawman here since i guessed a theistic response.. but id be happy to hear what a real theists reasons were for choosing their faith.

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[salihm999]

i chose my religion based on what my Quran taught, in other words im from mainstream Islam (sunni if u like). i deny athiesm since there is no 'real' proof of evolution, so what if we look or have DNA similar to monkeys (or w.e), we also have similar genes to cabbages(or w.e), thats just ridiculous. regarding big bang theory, its mentioned in the Quran so i dont deny it (except i believe God created the universe like that, not that it happened by chance). thus this leads me to Islam

[kidskillconscience]

@salihm999 So you believe what the Qu'ran says because the Qu'ran says so? Don't you think thats a little circular.

[randalfwarren]

i feel my intelligence seeping from my brain as i watch this. you arent even adressing your own fictional arguments properly. also your :advice thiests would give him" sounds more like advice non religious hippies would give him.

[kidskillconscience]

Well then propose a good factual argument. I asked for people to rebuff the arguments I gave. How CAN you choose your religion?

[TheFluffyDuck]

But they will never admit it. I know christains that honestly said they would be Christians if they were born in Iran, and Muslims who families are muslims that swear their parents had no impact on their choice.

Denial is in egypt it would seem.

[GreatG0dOm]

My Mom thought I should choose her religion.

[lonewolfM16]

@salihm999 yes congrats we do have similarities to cabbage because we evolved from a common ancestor and differentiated when plants and animals split from a single group of multi-cellular organisms. also atheism does not =evolution also evolution has evidence in fossils and even observations we have seen organisms change over time a few examples are a species of salamander in california and a man-made example of change is wolves to dogs. evolution has tons of evidence it is true just as cont

[RedDragon033195]

according to Neopagan theology, Deity comes in whatever form(s) one is willing to accept. so choosing an aspect of Deity which feels right to you is truth, because that is the aspect of Deity which is communicating to you. sometimes Deity comes in the form of Isis, or maybe Jesus, or maybe Buddha, or maybe not as a god at all, but simply as the universe itself. any way you look at it, everyone has a relationship with Deity.

[hermenutic]

I like this but did not agree with it. You seem to have assumed the concept of God has some kind of provable basis. This of course is a monotheistic western concept which is morally bankrupt as far as I am concerned. It deserves to be ridiculed. However that does not keep me from believing in God. It simply makes me think of God in different categories.

God has been a part of man's experience since he first asked 'why?' . We created God from that question.

[Gohardesign]

I have chosen Islam because by reading Quran you get to know that these are the words from God Himself nor any human can write stuff like this. Islam deals with every small and big aspect of ur life and everything written in it is so powerful that it really touches ur mind, body and soul..im not saying to choose Islam as ur religion but do read Quran with translation and u will get to know what im trying to say. Do try it for urself .

[susumu07]

@kidskillconscience

That's the typical "raised in it" Sunni argument. It's very much like the way Christian think, circular logic, "we're the majority, we must be right" never look outsider your bubble. If you really want to understand why an educated, sincere Muslim is Muslim, ask a convert/revert, preferably one whose Shia and knows the metaphors in the Qur'an, not just the literal parts. They will be able to give a much more cohesive, and non-circular argument.

[susumu07]

btw i also accept that Jesus probably was a real person, and I also don't think he was the "son of God". So yeah I "believe in Jesus"... I believe he was real and HUMAN. Just because he was real (he is mentioned in historical accounts of the Romans) that doesn't mean you have to swallow man-made Christian theology hook-line-and-sinker. plus all existing Christian sects are trinitarians, they only gained dominance by wiping out Arians and other older, more monotheistic early Christian sects.

[susumu07]

Here's a few ways.

Read the holy books of several faiths. Find translations that believers of those faiths consider reliable and accurate

Is there historical evidence for obscure places in the book?

Check for 'inconsistencies', and find if there's a way to see they aren't contradictions.

See how far the books agree with science. big bang, periodic table, plate tectonics, etc.

Did any specific predictions in the book come true soon afterward? Qur'an chapters 30 and 111 are examples of this.

[moti4love]

If religion is the word of God, that I know of no religion in the world that claims that God revealed to all of its nation and gave her the religion.

Apart from Judaism.

Judaism is the only religion that claims to the historic event in which God revealed to the whole nation and gave them the Torah.

Judaism is not based on one person or a prophet, but the entire nation which has seen God himself gave her his laws.

There is no such thing in the world!

[moti4love]

@salihm999

" n Judaism u have to be born Jew to be a Jew."

not at all ! everyone can be a jew.