r/AskReligion

I've seen quite a few people who still believe in Roman Paganism. If you do, why? For a bit of background, I'm Catholic.

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People will always unite to an idea they resonate with and the next idea becomes an abomination.

Maybe it's human nature that entails that we are incapable of holding any two conflicting ideas true without demonizing the other.

We've centered our being to divinity, this has limited us to see beyond our supposed "makers".

We fight in the name of gods who don't even acknowledge our existence, all but as a means to self interest that benefit those who know that religion is a tool for division and capitalize to enrich their bloodlines. Until consequently we are all consumed by the seeds of hate planted even before you had a name.

Hi iv struggled with faith for as long as i can remember. I respect everyone’s beliefs but also some religious beliefs actually interest me and got me learning even more about it. But yet i cant understand religious people, like how?

I could listen to some nice and interesting stories, about angels and saints and God’s miracles, but, believing that they actually happened? Thats hard for me.

Iv grew up in a not a strict religious family, just simple believers. And I am not atheist nor agnostic, i don’t know what i am and i rather not give it a name because i don’t know what i believe.

But i have always wondered if its possible for a religious person to question their religion (or another) and their faith get stronger not weaker.

( & if you do comment something about a religion don’t forget to mention what it is :D )

Hello all, my understanding is that Western scholars have tended to focus almost exclusively on the Laozi and the Zhuangzi when examining so-called “philosophical Daoism” (daojia). However, the main concerns of “religious Daoism” (daojiao)—prosperity rituals, immortality elixirs, alchemy, etc.—seem to have very little precedent in the Zhuangzi specifically. The text seems to have almost no ritual component and an overall attitude of equanimity toward death, though I can certainly see Daoist concerns for good health prefigured there. So my question is, what was the nature of this text’s influence on the traditions that came after it, given the seemingly notable discrepancies in emphasis and attitude?

when is fear of god a great tool to keep people safe in your society? is it during tough times like a pandemic, colonial invasion or when the planet is in jeopardy?

Atheism entirely denies the fact that the god exists, so Its relatively convenient to debate with atheists, because debate is binary - one side claims that there is god, and the other - denies that. Whereas in debate believer VS believer they both believe in god, so the question is why your religion is true, and my false? Would be interesting to see what kind of arguments they would give to each other in order to prove for example that Quran is true and Bible is not