This one has been going in my kind for a while so I’m just asking out
Is it weird for a person to have their own religious beliefs system? Like they don’t adhere to a said religion and just has theirs own beliefs system , for example : a bit of Christian and paganist beliefs that someone personally upholds but doesn’t adhere to neither of these religions, just their own beliefs system
Having religious beliefs in general is pretty weird so you’re OK.
You’re referring to Syncretism, and it’s extremely common in the Western world. 25% of American Christians report believing in reincarnation.
It’s fairly common, in my experience.
No. Every religion started that way.
Its all made up, so you’re free to make up your own stuff too I guess.
Literally every religion except the first one are formed via this method.
Its honestly really common. Most people sorta mostly believe in their religion and sorta pick and choose whats important to them about it and often grab add ons they come across. A heavily catholic hispanic area I lived in had these psychics who would integrate catholic saints into their thing and make it semi religious and plenty of religious catholics took it in as a thing.
Arguably, even the most devout of devout have their own unique mixture of beliefs, because the scripture is inconsistent and has parts that are unclear.
I’d say that literally everyone has a unique set of beliefs, even atheists will hold into some superstitions, often unaware they are.
I’m atheist, I still do “touch wood” (a pagan thing that got coopted by UK Protestantism, that to prevent a jinx or bring a blessing, you say “touch wood” and tap the nearest wooden thing), cause it does something in my brain, a comforting effect
I never really thought about it before but semantically ‘atheist’ only means ‘no belief in God or gods’. Technically it shouldn’t preclude belief in spirits or other supernatural elements. I suppose the closest thing to complete disbelief in the supernatural is ‘skeptic’ but even that’s up for interpretation. Do satanism and humanism explicitly rule out any supernatural?
It’s weird but not uncommon. There are lots of weird people out there. You’ll have company.
I think it’s normal and healthy, if it’s not taken too far. Same goes for mainstream religion.
Religion is ultimately about answering the unanswerable. Why are we here, the meaning of life, what happens after we die, that kind of thing. Nobody is able to answer these questions with evidence, so therefore any established religion has just as much credence as whatever you come up with yourself.
Denying objective reality or restricting the rights of others is where you have to draw the line though. That’s where things become weird.
Regarding mixing christian and pagan rites, there’s a fascinating history of how catholicism in particular incorporated pagan beliefs into their own pantheon. If it’s okay for them to pick and choose what to believe, then the same goes for everyone else too
honestly, that’s why I think about stuff as ‘religion’ versus ‘organized religion’
anyone can come up with their own relgion :)
I organize too many parts of my life. If I create a religion it would probably naturally come with an organized, fully scalable organizational architecture to prevent the standard failure modes of multiple interests accessing shared resources. Along with operational guides for each role, faq’s, instructional materials, etc.
I think it depends on what your belief system is. If you take good lessons from several different religions that help you be a better person. Not weird at all
If you wrote science fiction and then all of a sudden wanted to create scientology. Very fucking weird
Do you like Yorkshire gold tea?
I don’t think I understand?
Reanu Keaves is one of the go to character names of the spiffing Brit, a YouTuber’s known for his love of tea. Specifically, Yorkshire gold.
Oh lol ok ya you’re not the first to mention spiffing brit to me but I don’t know him, I just thought reanu was a funny name
… But do you like Yorkshire gold tea?
And don’t get me wrong it is objectively a funny name 😂
Never had it but I’ve liked every tea I’ve had that is camellia based so I probably would
What you have is beliefs, which is normal.
A religion is a scam where people are told that all of their beliefs are or should be the same, which is absurd.
Believe what you feel is right, question it often, and that’s all. Religions are useless at best, dangerous in general.
I don’t really “believe” in anything, but I do hope that there is an afterlife in the sense of “you go where you want to go”. I’ve got a whole little world planned out for myself if there’s something out there listening.
Pretty much everyone has their own unique blend of beliefs. Like. Most Christian’s have their things they do or don’t believe, even if there’s a shared framework.
Like, ask 10 Christian’s what the hell the trinity is, you’ll get 20 different and usually mutually contradictory answers.
Or about hell and who goes and for how long.
Yeah. The bible is literally unbelievable, it contradicts itself. Every “believer” has their own headcanon.
And you’ll notice that believers will have the vaguest excuses "god works in mysterious ways “we aren’t meant to understand god’s will” “god has a plan”. It’s all saying we don’t know how things work, but at the same time they will tell you they know god is real. To be a true believer you need to throw logic out the window and play by your own rules. It’s why the hardcore ones are so opinionated and self righteous. They deluded themselves into believing they have a divine connection and know things that they’ve never learned.
I’m not a christian but there’s different answers for the trinity other than father, son, and holy spirit?
Oh yes.
One of the reasons most mainstream christians consider Mormons to not be christian is because they’re not trinitarians - that god is three beings in one. As an example.
Trinitarianism teaches that they’re all the same being, just with 3 different whosiwhatits that they can’t even agree on what they even are.
Jesus lacks attributes the father and Holy Spirit have, making him less than fully god, and he has attributes that they don’t have, etc.
Which when pressed, most christians will fall into one of the first heresies- partialism. Which was part of the Arian Heresy (that Jesus was created and distinct, not fully god)
The problem is that Jesus couldn’t be the messiah (he did none of the messianic things, and wasn’t of the line of David, and even if Joseph was his father, Joseph was of a line cursed to never produce a king….)
So if Jesus is neither god nor the messiah, why worship him?
The trinity was invented to avoid accusations of polytheism, but as usual with religious apologetics it just adds more confusion.
Jesus, god, and the holy spirit must all be one, otherwise the religion is not monotheistic.
But if they are all one, why ever distinguish between them?
So believers arbitrarily assign different roles to their three different gods while pretending it’s all the same guy. God is immune to logic, and many christians dare not question their own salvation. It is moral and intellectual cowardice, and it is killing us all.
