religion

Since there are so many questions raised and issues discussed concerning people?s basic assumptions about life, about their philosophy, about their religious beliefs, indeed, about their very approach to reality and the way their society goes about organizing things, it seemed like a useful...

Will we be forced to islam? obama is as far as I know the only president that took a religion into the white house to kick off its religious holiday. (seperation between Government and religion) The next thing will be their way of law. The flood gates are open and hes letting them in. So much...

So I'm sitting here at 5am studying for an exam and I'm thinking about the University's policy on religious holidays and exams. Basically if a religious holiday falls on an exam day, you can set another day to write the exam. Half-jokingly I thought to myself... what if I made my own religion...

This might be a silly question - but a nice break from the serious questions :) Hypothetically speaking of course, if you were to I dunno, get bored with your current religious views :rolleyes: and you decided you'd like to follow a new religion. What would it be? For me, my first choice...

In certain circumstances, religion will conflict with human rights. Specifically, think about gay rights. Homosexuality has been around for a long time and it quite a controversial topic. But now, gay couples are asking for the same rights as other people. While this is mainly a political...

For example, how many of you pray x number of times per day? Work on the sabbath? Don't eat certain foods? Personally, the only rule I obey is not to eat certain foods. I'm not even honestly sure why I do that considering im not religious at all.

From my understanding, Greece was at one point very religious due to all the statues and literature about the Greek Gods they believed in such as Zeus and so on. But what kept them so religious? I don't recall reading about that, I know they feared the Gods but there had to be more than that.

I feel there should be optional classes on religions in schools. Because if both the parents are working professionals they hardly get time to talk or preach their children about religion. So schools would be better options for teaching religion. What do you guys think?

Simple question...what if you were born in some other faith? Would you somehow find your way to the one you are practicing or stick to the one you were born in? Are you practicing your religion by choice or simply by birth? Honest replies please.

Hello all, just curious about how many religion accepted in your country. And please leave an information about where do you live here. I live in Indonesia, and there are 5 accepted religion. They are Christian, Catholic, Moslem, Buddha, Hindu. More than 50% people in my country are Moslem.