I think that I lack whichever part of the human brain operates on faith. I am therefore consigned to that in between are of someone who believes in nothing (but not in a nihilistic way) but is looking for something in religion that I can appreciate.
I have looked into a number of mainstream religions (Christianity, Judaism and Islam etc) but the only one I found the remotest affinity with was Bhuddism.
So to all the theists out there, convince me, sell me (metaphorically) your God.
Sorry that should have been “in-between area”
Sorry to disappoint, but Judaism doesn’t “sell” God. If you’re perfectly happy being non-Jewish, then there is no reason for you to become Jewish.
Zev Steinhardt
Please don’t think that I was having a go at Judaism, I just decided that it didn’t suit me personally.
Save me Jeebus!
Sell Me Your God
Well, it’s your lucky day. We’re having a 2-for-1 special!
Hey, the Catholics down the block are selling three all rolled into one!
Are your’s fresh?
The Father and Son are OK, but the Holy Ghost is a little past the “sell by” date
I Am not necessarily a Theist, and I Am not trying to sell anything. The Enlightened will understand Self-Evident Truths, others will not.
What is your response to my thread?
Seek Peace through Liberty.
I Am
They’re not exactly selling it- you have to buy Bingo cards.
However, I can put you in this little Zoroastrian baby right here… damned fine god, barely used for the past 2,000 years except by a few middle-easterners. Freddy Mercury was one and you know how chic he was! Just make me a check for $99 down payable to “Conveying Ahura-mazda’s Serene Holiness” (or CASH) and you can drive away worshipping that baby.
He can fly!
Free bread and wine every Sunday.
And by free, I mean we want 10% of your income.
Take my god… PLEASE!
Sorry, but it probably won’t do you much good.
I recommend two things:
do some research on your own regarding various religions, talk to practitioners and see what they have to say. Search your own soul for what’s right for you.
Read up on the “experiential source hypothesis” by David Hufford. Simplified, it’s the idea that people believe in something not because they’ve been indoctrinated in to it, but rather they undergone a profound, changing experience that gives them the proof they need to believe. You can find some references to it in:
Out of the Ordinary, folklore & the supernatural, edited by Barbara Walker, 1995, Utah State University Press.
Let us know what happens.
G’luck!
Or take this poll. (Unfortunately, mine just said I’m an atheist.)
I hear the Mormons have a really cool, very convenient deal where they act as your banker and take their 10% right off the top with no effort on your part. Sort of super direct deposit.
Interesting. According to this I’m a 100% Secular Humanist. I thought we were just an urban legend.
Can’t sell someone on god. It is something you feel. Or don’t feel. It is whatever you define it as.
I suggest the OP narrow things down a bit. What specific problems do you have, for instance, with the Christian God? Religious threads often go on for pages and pages in GD. If yours doesn’t, the OP is probably just too confrontational.