Must I Belong to One Faith?

If I choose what feels true to me from different traditions.....some from Buddhism, some from Christianity, some from Hinduism, some from Islam and some from pure logic.......can I still call myself religious? Or am I something else entirely? Who am I, if I do not fully commit to any one faith?

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CloudAngel80 · 41-45, F

RELIGION is man made in my opinion. If you want a RELATIONSHIP with God, and taking in faith, Jesus Christ is the ONLY WAY to heaven.
Religions, even parts of them from any religions, is good to take knowledge of, being informed, but ONLY JESUS is tge way to true heaven abd eternal salvation. I too have sone mantras and budist, hindu, etc. Thoughts, but my faith is TRULY joy in Jesus! Doesnt manner the church name or denominations, it matters whom your soul trusts in !

ThirstenHowl ·

@CloudAngel80 it's always remarkable to me how some people have the ability to form the conclusion that all other religions are made up, but then that cognitive ability suddenly shuts off once they turn their gaze to their own beliefs, and their own beliefs are suddenly NOT made up, or even better, NOT a religion at all (just everyone else's beliefs are religion).

It's remarkable that these people can never grasp why all those other people also think this person's beliefs are made up too. ALL of you think YOU are the ones who are actually right and everyone else is wrong. And NONE of you can recognize that you've ALL just made stuff up, or blindly followed someone else who made it all up, whether they made it up last week or 2000 years ago. And that's the BIGGEST problem that has always caused humans to kill each other for centuries, all this completely made up crap that doesn't solve any problem or answer any question of any kind, it only creates MORE problems. And in the particular case of your preferred religion, all the people who hilariously think JC would've been Caucasian or supported oligarchy or supported AR-15s or supported Trump have clearly never even really read your own holy book nor understood that the Levant was not populated by white people. And funnily enough, your own holy book doesn't even say when JC's birthday was, we'd have to wait another three centuries for a committee to choose a date.

Humanity will not be doomed by sin, humanity will be doomed by a lack of critical thinking combined with selfishness (evangelizing is one classic example of selfishness on a collective scale). But that will probably be a win for all other species (unless we finish destroying them too before we go extinct).

CloudAngel80 · 41-45, F

@ThirstenHowl to each his or her or their own..