LeandroPiva
Religion Autodidact
Well, I like reading about religion and one of the questions that intrigues me the most is what leads one person to accept certain religious (or non-religious) position as truth.
In my view, to declare yourself of a given religious position (perhaps excluding eclectic/syncretic and universalist religions) you have to strictly adhere to a set of ideas, values, precepts, etc. of that position, while rejecting or ignoring thousands of other religious positions – the majority of which you are mostly or totally ignorant about – considering them as less valuable than yours. To me, that seems to be a really complex issue, though many (perhaps most) people do not have the consciousness of that. By the way, what lead you your current religious (or non-religious position)?
Well, as a Seeker, I do not own any predefined religious position. But I'd say that the reasons why I became a seeker were my willingness to always question everything, retest old conclusions and know other points of view (a consequence of my agnostic/atheist phase, I think), as well as my interest in supernatural experiences and discovering the mysteries of life and the universe.
In my view, to declare yourself of a given religious position (perhaps excluding eclectic/syncretic and universalist religions) you have to strictly adhere to a set of ideas, values, precepts, etc. of that position, while rejecting or ignoring thousands of other religious positions – the majority of which you are mostly or totally ignorant about – considering them as less valuable than yours. To me, that seems to be a really complex issue, though many (perhaps most) people do not have the consciousness of that. By the way, what lead you your current religious (or non-religious position)?
Well, as a Seeker, I do not own any predefined religious position. But I'd say that the reasons why I became a seeker were my willingness to always question everything, retest old conclusions and know other points of view (a consequence of my agnostic/atheist phase, I think), as well as my interest in supernatural experiences and discovering the mysteries of life and the universe.
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