which religion do u follow or think is best comb. of sprituality ,peace & mediation?

Which religion do u follow or which religion attracts you most?

also , want to disscuss peace , mediation and sprituality of different religions.

on papers we all know Christanity , Islam and Hinduism are the three largest religions of the world.

RELIGIONS CAN BE DIFFERENT BUT GOD IS ONE.....just want to disscuss why path of a particular religion more effective than other. :m:

 

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I voted for Hinduism , These are the reasons why i voted for this particular faith.

Beliefs are the building blocks of the mind. Our beliefs determine our thoughts and attitudes about life, which in turn direct our actions. By our actions we create our destiny. Beliefs about sacred matters—God, man and cosmos—are essential to one’s approach to enlightenment. But beliefs are not mere matters of agreement. They are what we value and hold as true.

The following nine beliefs, though not exhaustive, offer a simple summary of Hindu spirituality.

1) I believe in the divinity of the Vedas, the world’s most ancient scripture, and venerate the Agamas as equally revealed. These primordial hymns are God’s word and the bedrock of Sanatana Dharma( Hinduism) , the eternal religion which has neither beginning nor end.

2) I believe in a one, all-pervasive Supreme Being who is both immanent and transcendent, both Creator and Unmanifest Reality.

3) I believe that the universe undergoes endless cycles of creation, preservation and dissolution.

4) I believe in karma, the law of cause and effect by which each individual creates his own destiny by his thoughts, words and deeds.

5) I believe that the soul reincarnates, evolving through many births until all karmas have been resolved, and moksha, spiritual knowledge and liberation from the cycle of rebirth, is attained. Not a single soul will be eternally deprived of this destiny.

6) I believe that divine beings exist in unseen worlds and that temple worship, rituals, sacraments as well as personal devotionals create a communion with these devas and Gods.

7) I believe that a spiritually awakened master, or satguru, is essential to know the Transcendent Absolute, as are personal discipline, good conduct, purification, pilgrimage, self-inquiry and meditation.

8)I believe that all life is sacred, to be loved and revered, and therefore practice ahimsa, “non-injury.”

9) I believe that no particular religion teaches the only way to salvation above all others, but that all genuine religious paths are facets of God’s Pure Love and Light, deserving tolerance and understanding.

Hinduism, the world’s oldest religion, has no beginning—it precedes recorded history. It has no human founder. It is a mystical religion, leading the devotee to personally experience the Truth within, finally reaching the pinnacle of consciousness where man and God are one. Hinduism has four main denominations—Saivism, Shaktism, Vaishnavism and Smartism. The above nine beliefs form a common ground for all Hindu sects.

YOGA is the practical form of Hinduism or we can say Hinduism in action is called YOGA .

 

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There are more atheists in sciforums than religious, so the majority would propably be "don't follow any religion". I like Hinduism too, but I think it's too "advanced" for me yet to truly understand... But I believe a little in all religions so I don't know what to vote

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i think u should vote for a religion which ur heart likes ,even if it is too advanced for u at this stage.

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:m:

 

athesists leading

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hinduism and islam 50-50 :m:

 

It is quite normal that atheists are leading here.

Strange, no christians yet?

 

Dear Mr. Sharma,

You did not include Catholicism.

Protestants have largely co-opted the term 'Christianity' for themselves, but doctrinally they are focused on the Doctrines of Paul which propose a kind of amoral Salvation. Protestant Christianity then becomes a sort of Religion without Moral or Spiritual Content.

Looking only at the Bible it is difficult to explain how Catholicism is any different, but Catholicism does transcend its Bible, in the teaching of the Saints and in the Revelations of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In these factors, Catholicism has returned to True Religion.

In the Religious Orders -- the Ascetic and Contemplative Orders -- you would probably recognize many of the same devotions and disciplines that would be ordinary to Vedantic and Yogic Hinduism.

I don't know whether you would be surprised or not at the number of Catholic Contemplatives who know a smattering of spiritual Sanskrit.

 

I noticed that 'Judaism' was one of the choices.

Is that even a Religion anymore?

I thought that has become only an Ethnic Designation.

If it is a Religion, then what are its tenets and what is the nature of its God. They love worldly success. They enjoy the legal profession where they are happy arguing one side as the other as long as the pay is good. Their New Temple is the Internation Bank.

the sad thing is that Protestants aspire to be just like them.

 

Shinto!?

Shinto is a Religion for the Japanese in the same sense that Nazism was a Religion for the Germans.

It is not a God Worship. It is a National Self Idolization.

If there is one thing that still abstructs Asian Unity, it is japanese Shintoism. The same way England was at perpetual war with Europe, Japan has been at perpetual War with any unifying influence in Asia -- and Shintoism is the spiritual, or anti-spiritual, expression of such animosity and hostility.

 

rahul_sharma,

Where do I belong to now in your categorization of poll options?

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I believe there is no God! And I believe in the wholeness of ALLAH and that Allah is ONE alone and is not a god to anything else!

Based on my understanding of the Koran and of the teachings of Mohammed and of all other Rasuls and Nabis before him(pbuh), I also do not consider or understand "Islam" as another religion beside many others because of the whole oneness of "Allah". I believe that all spiritual masters tried to explain the same realities of life to mankind to realize as their time allowed, but it was not named until Mohammed (pbuh) named it finally as "Islam", who confirmed all the previous scriptures.

The following is what I have written to start a thread entitled: Islam is not one of many religions, at http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=38117[/B]

If we consider the oneness of Allah as explained in the Koran that ALLAH is AHAD (the unlimited ONE), the SAMAD, (the Whole), LAMYALEED (was not begotten --UNDIVIDED from something else), LAMYULAD (nor did beget --UNBROKEN, UNFRAGMENTED to pieces), then we come to understand that:

There is only one single SYSTEM operating in the universe that is organized by the basic wholeness and that we all are subject to, which was tried to be explained to mankind by its perceivers, the prophets and the spiritual masters...

All the prophets confirmed each other and tried to explain mankind this single Universal System, which we call as religion. Finally, Mohammed (peace be upon him) said 'I have perfected the religion for you' by confirming all the scriptures before him and named this single religion (the system) as ISLAM beacuse of its quality that all things have already SURRENDERED to this basic ONE at the essence. If only we could understand that...

In the sight of Oneness, there are not many religions, there is only one System of life. ISLAM is the name given to this only religion in the sight of ALLAH.

We do not need to be in conflict with eachother, but we need to UNDERSTAND that single Universal System, --no matter from which religious(!) background we come-- in which each of us fullfils the reason for which we existed and get only the result of our deeds --as a basic principle of that System.

BTW, after all I voted for Islam, bu this does not mean that I separate the others and I beleive in a god. I believe, we are all one within.

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u mean to say 1 billion muslims are true and other 5 billion non-muslims are idiots?
this is height of extremism ...is there any diff. between ur kind of muslim mentality and osama?
the defination which u r giving for allah , every religion gives same defination....just diff. is with name.

GOD = ALLAH = KRISHNA , REMEMBER

 

In whatever religion you believe in you should also recognize that YOU CHOSE to believe in it .Fanaticism is a sickness. Anyone who rejects people just because they have different religious orientation is sick not religious. You should not overlook the fact that there are thousands of religions out there.

 

daphneeee: In whatever religion you believe in you should also recognize that YOU CHOSE to believe in it. Fanaticism is a sickness. Anyone who rejects people just because they have different religious orientation is sick not religious. You should not overlook the fact that there are thousands of religions out there.
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M*W: Welcome, daphneeee, to the wonderful world of sciforums! You are right of course, but let's not forget those who believe Jesus died for them. They not only have chosen Christianity, because they believe they are worthless and sinful humans, they have allowed Christianity to consume them like a bad case of gangrene. Christianity is like an ulcer on their soul. It just gets bigger, nastier and stinkier, until it oozes of green pus. These people have lost their identity to Christianity. They walk around like the living dead repeating scripture that nobody hears. Nobody cares. They meet at their churches and reinfect each other on a regular basis. There is no cure. There is no hope. Contracting AIDS can be avoided by using a condom. If there were only a condom for Christianity.

 

Religion is not really a choice. Many people are brainwashed as a child. They are afraid of reading counter arguments believing that those are the works of the devil.

 

Not technically true. Allah has no son and is not trinity. Islam is a bastardized version of Judism. Christianity is one really big Jewish cult. The real Christians, the Nazarites and later become the Ebionites, didn't survive. Krishna is one of the one billion hindu Gods, but none of them really are Gods.

 

Gizzz my name explains my vote

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Religions have been a sickness to this earth, mysticism is the desease of the mind which needs to be cured, before these zealots sob's blow each other up, and taken the rest of us with them.

Christianity has been like the AIDS virus, infecting the whole world into stupidity, and now the clash between two major idealogies face eachother in M.E. there's no winning to this confrontation when "reason" is thrown out the window!!.

Godless.

 

I voted Taoism because I was under the impression which is the better of the religions (I’m atheist which is a lack of religious belief). I thought Taoism because from what I understand it’s pretty much just a life philosophy with little mystics and is not misogynistic as pretty much all other religions are. So next in line would be Buddhism or Hinduism.

I was watching a show on global warming. The documentary showed some pacific islands that will be gone in the coming centuries. So they ask these islanders what they think about their islands being covered by water in the future. One woman said: No it can not happen because God gave us the rainbow to show us it will never happen again. I thought – THIS is the scary thing about religion. It’s like all those people in the airplanes on 9/11 sitting in their seats praying for God to help them when they should have gotten up and helped themselves. And these people run the white house.

Very scary.

For that reason I’d put Christianity on the bottom.

You’re crazy. Shinto is the endogenous religion of Japan. So what?

And, if you haven’t noticed most societies (not Just the Japanese) are of the notion they are the Best. Or haven’t you talked with an American lately?

It just happens that due to historical reasons Japan has remained homogeneous – and personally I see nothing wrong in it. It works for them so it’s fine.

Your notion that Japan (and specifically the Shinto religion) is preventing a United Asia. What are you smoking? Have you ever met a devote Shinto Japanese? Hmmm maybe the 8000 years of history and distinctive cultures may be a better answer? Oh, and lastly, it’s Seoul (unlike say .. . .Tokyo) that is missing a China Town. Must be the Korea Christians that are preventing the Unification of Asia

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I'm not on the list...but I'm not on most lists so I was not surprised.

I am a "non-traditional" Wiccan, but I follow most Wicca practices. The reason I choose to be Wiccan:

1. I recognise that our intelligence gives us a responsibility toward our environment. I seek to live in harmony with nature, in ecological balance offering fulfillment to life and consciousness within an evolutionary concept.

2. I acknowledge a depth of power greater than that apparent the the average person. Some call it supernatural but I see it as something that is within all people.

3. I acknowledge the creative power of the universe.

4. I recognise the outer world and inner or psychological world.

5. I do not recognise authoritarian hierarchy but honor and respect those who share their knowledge and wisdom.

6. I see religion and wisdom in living as being united in the way one views the world and lives within it -- a world view and philosophy of life which I identify as the Wiccan Way.

7. I seek to control the forces within myself that make life possible in order to live wisely and well without hard to others and in harmony with nature.

8. I believe in the affirmation and fulfillment of life in a continuation of evolution and development of consciousness giving meaning to the universe we know and my personal role within it.

9. I am concerned only with my present and future.

10. I do not accept the concept of abolue evil nor absolute good.

11. I believe that we should seek within nature that which is contributory to our health and well-being.

I meditate on a daily basis, mostly techniques I have learned over the years by combining several different eastern philosophies. A few months ago I was in an accident and for therapy it was suggested I do yoga. Yoga exercises have been very beneficial physically for me and currently I am researching its philosophy as I find that it directly correlates with many of my current personal beliefs.

 

Funny!

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How did yu conclude this?

 

All religions and beliefs are foundations for morality and justice...
my religion your religion my morality your morality etc....