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    question for catholic/protestant converts

    that's awesome, thank you for sharing! can I ask how the "requirements" that protestant and the Catholic church have might differ? and was the Catholic church more supportive just in terms of being more accepting or in terms of having a good social support network around the Catholic community...
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    question for catholic/protestant converts

    Thank you so much, this was really helpful! You mentioned protestant churches having a social circle and gatherings like picnics, is that sort of thing not found so much in Catholicism? Do they not have as much of a close knit community? Do they have community gatherings outside of the actual...
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    question for catholic/protestant converts

    I've seen Catholicism and Protestantism depicted in vastly different ways, so for anyone who has been part of both the catholic and a protestant church, I'm curious what the social/cultural/community differences are, just in your experience, since I know protestant denominations can be quite...
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    what's the most important factor in a religion?

    How do you know a religion is right? Is it based on theology, on doctrine, or on the culture, the community, what is the most important factor? For example, I think a lot of things are right about Catholicism I guess theologically. But I've also seen depictions of Protestant communities in...
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    should I be an atheist or religious?

    yes, I will try my absolute best to clarify any contradictions I make, and I will start with an apology for both the past and future failures of my abilities to express myself as well as my vocabulary! you're right that I don't want to lie about my beliefs in God so I'll try to be accurate when...
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    should I be an atheist or religious?

    I definitely get how saying that God is central to my life when I'm not a believer is confusing, and to people with religious belief, possibly also insulting. It's hard for me to find the most accurate possible words for what I'm attempting to express, so I apologise. Religious words seem to...
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    should I be an atheist or religious?

    thank you for your help! I will definitely ask around, I'd be thrilled if people would accept my questions about their religion but I had no idea if that would be appropriate to inquire to members of a religious community about. I don't personally have any nihilistic beliefs, I'm strongly...
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    should I be an atheist or religious?

    I love that idea of God! So my literal idea of God-the-concept is still a bit different, but it sounds like you didn't necessarily believe in God at first either; are Baha'is open to people joining even if they don't feel that belief deep down, or is that sort of "faith" just something that...
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    should I be an atheist or religious?

    It's sort of hard to explain, which I guess part of my conception of God is "that which cannot be explained". By a literal God, I guess what I'm talking about is a God that is a being or a force or exists somehow physically or consciously in the universe. I have a conception of God because I...
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    should I be an atheist or religious?

    Thank you so much, I really appreciate all this, it's super helpful. I mentioned in another comment I had a satanism phase as a teenager, and so perhaps predictably I also had a wiccan phase. unlike satanism, I never fully identified as wiccan, but it was sort of my gateway to serious witchcraft...
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    should I be an atheist or religious?

    yes, I'd definitely be more inclined to sort of practice Judaism without converting, which is what Noahidism sounds like? please correct me, sorry. You mention the amount of effort, and while I'm not put off by effort (putting in more effort actually speaks to the idea of sacrifice which I...
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    should I be an atheist or religious?

    thanks so much for your help, I'll definitely do some research! I'm totally okay with a religion that is all about God, so long as they are okay with someone joining who doesn't believe in a literal God
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    should I be an atheist or religious?

    thank you so much, I really appreciate it! I've heard of the first three but I guess a seeming sort of...lack of structure put me off? Or lack of like...doctrine? I'm not really sure, maybe it is the lack of that sort of unified belief in God and shared mythology, even if I mean something...
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    should I be an atheist or religious?

    thanks for your input! they are definitely different things, but it's seeming hard for me to find a community that is religious and also atheist! since my beliefs and practices don't clearly line up under a label or denomination obvious to me, do you have any thoughts on whether I should pick a...
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    should I be an atheist or religious?

    thanks for your help! the exact boundaries of atheism/theism and religious/irreligious have always been a bit murky to me (I assume they are used somewhat interchangeably due to the fact that self identified atheists are so often also irreligious) so I appreciate your input figuring out my...
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    should I be an atheist or religious?

    A quite uncommon image of God, I think, at least insofar as I've heard God described. I knew that was a rather confusing thing to say, sorry, but I thought it would be a bit too much to explain all this in the original post. So, roughly, my idea of God is fully and completely synonymous with the...
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    should I be an atheist or religious?

    I was actually (fairly briefly) a satanist as a teenager! Shocking, I know, a teenager picking up satanism, but I was just as curious about my place in religion as a kid as i am now, and I'm sure I didn't take it seriously enough back then, but upon a brief reexamination recently it still didn't...
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    should I be an atheist or religious?

    Thank you for sharing your thoughts, I actually agree with quite a few things you said! I'm fairly set in my religious views, though, and like to develop them at my own pace. I'm not looking for a set of religious beliefs to adopt, which is to what I assume you are referencing when you say...
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    should I be an atheist or religious?

    Oh my, in that case, thank you for your time, I appreciate you sharing with me! I just got on this site so I'm not sure how it works but please feel free to message me or whatever if you don't mind telling me more!
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    should I be an atheist or religious?

    I was being a bit flippant with my language there, sorry, I know it is POSSIBLE to convert to Judaism, I've just had a bit of confusion about it, so thank you so much for your information! My exposure to Jewish conversion is that I have definitely heard of people converting, but only ever in the...
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