I've met people who were once Christians or Jews among other things that turned to eastern traditions or paganism because of the issues they have had with their original religion. I'm sure someone will be tempted to say "Well atheism was the original belief they had." because you aren't...
I have come to discover that I rather like polytheism. Well at least certain gods from certain pantheons. The issue I personally have is actually believing in or doing anything with these gods when I can think of no rational arguments for said gods actually being a thing.
It seems to me...
We all have our own personal bias whether we recognize it or not. We all have things we favor and we all have things we have personal issues with. Sometimes these bleed over into the arguments we will and won’t consider and why we agree with one side or another.
I notice in myself a bias...
I like taking surveys and doing these little quizzes online. AT one point I had even signed up with okay cupid just so I could keep answering their little matchmaking questions. Any way I had found a couple of these quizzes having to do with religion/spirituality/paganism and just thought I...
I was watching videos on various pagan traditions and there was a whole series of videos from different content creators on their matron and patron deities. People were more or less talking about having mother and father figure deities. They also talked about how they came to those deities as...
The God of Judaism is more or less the inspiration or supposed to be the same god the Christians and muslims worship. See here is the thing that gets me about that. Why would God randomly start new religions?
Why is Christianity so different to Judaism?
Why would god allow 3 new religions to...
To someone who likes evidence of something before he or she believes in something it's almost impossible to justify spiritual experience within their own life.
Take Jesus for instance, give him all his miracles, give him all his works from the gospel and so on. Would this prove the god he spoke...
I have been wondering recently what the western world would look like without Christianity or without Christianity being the dominant religion? It could be argued that Christianity both divided Europe at times and united it at others. It's possible it was a bit of Christian unity that helped...
I'd just like to point out that just because a certain group can be associated with a horrible event doesn't make everyone involved in said group responsible. For instance just because the Crusades were given legitimacy by the pope doesn't mean everyone in Christendom is responsible or that...
I've gotten so tired of not hearing arguments from muslims when I talk to them. Or at least arguments that aren't just straight up propaganda that anyone with eyes could easily see through so here. Please Muslims try to demonstrate that Islam is true .
Don't just say "Muhammad was such a good...
AT what point do you stop discussing or debating with someone? I've talked to numerous people about all sorts of things and at a certain point it starts to seem to me that it's just not even worth going further. People get emotion or believe things so ridiculous that it's impossible to take...
I’ve often wondered why monotheism isn’t the first form of religion we see historically if things like christianity are true. You would think if God only wanted us to worship him and would punish us otherwise he’d be sure to be the very first spiritual concept humans understood.
Of course...
The rejection of Islam.
Over the years that I have left Islam my mind has become more and more convinced that Islam is a downright fabrication. In fact I have come to regard it as one of the greatest cons in the history of man. On par with Mormonism when it comes to how downright silly the...
If you believed that the truth of the universe was that it was meaningless and that human life was a mere accident is this a good enough reason to try and adopt a different set of beliefs? Is It enough of a reason that someone who thinks all this is depressing and that existing would at least be...
I was just wondering what everyone's favorite historical periods or events to learn about were? You don't have to list just one but go ahead and list which ones strike your fancy the most.
I personally have a wide variety of interests but I'd have to say my favorites are as follows.
Medieval...
I was taking a break from the vast amount of religious and historical reading I do to check out some of the lore behind one of my favorite tabletop games. Corvus Belli's infinity. In infinity there is a faction made up mostly of Muslims called Haqq Islam, for some reason they translate this as...
I was once a Muslims and I've been thinking lately. One of my biggest concerns as I was leaving was hadith. I often found the hadith was all over the place, most of the very worst parts of Islam came from the hadith and there is a lot of backwards ideas present within. On top of that the...