what are the worlds most unsual religions in your opinion ? tell us what you find unsuall about it ? ( Archived) (13)

but please tell us what you know about the religon first please

All religions are based on superstition. Many of these superstitions have become codified, that is, set down in a written, time-tempered way (supposedly).

When you are picked up as an infant, and fed, talked to, and coddled in many ways, you believe that these humans who intersact with you are all-powerful. As you grow older, this dynamic stays with you, because you cannnot consciously recollect it. Therefore, at a certain age you can let go of Santa Claus, an Easter Bunney, a tooth fairy, etc.

But you never let go of the all powerful beings who could lift you into the air and their arms, who could feed you, who could keep you from crying, and provide your every need.

You can let go of Santa Clause, the Easter Bunney, etc, because they never had the hold over you that these large, strong beings, your mother and fateher, had over you. This, in your mind, becomes your god. This god does not exist, nor do any others.

what do hindu's and hare chrisnas believe in ?

oh well

I think the snake handlers are the most unusual. Faith in action.

Religions are part of culture,
but also a crutch for some

Ritual cannibalism (catholics), suicide and martyrdom (islam, christianity, shintoism) , transubstantiation, rapture, levitation and karma (Hinduism), dead people walking (numerous), personification of animals and objects (animism), denial of existence (buddhism), etc.

Name one religion that doesn't have something weird. It would be a very short list.

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can you please let us know why you find things unsual about these religions for people like myself that don't know much about the religions that you've just mentioned please !

many thanks

Hi,

I'll go through the list that I mentioned, and add one more:

Ritual cannibalism: catholic communion says "eat of my flesh and drink of my blood", the symbolic consumption of human flesh. Transubstantiation is the technical term for this.

Suicide and martyrdom: suicide bombers of islam are obvious, but don't forget the willingness of christians to die for their religion in certain wars from the crusades until World War II (but not since, interestingly), and Japan's shintoism was the origin of the kamikaze.

Rapture: the belief that a select few will be "chosen by god" and be "taken up to heaven" via spontaneous combustion (or some other method), and those remaining are either meant to "fight satan" or are "condemned to hell", whichever particular fatalist protestant religion happens to be talking.

Levitation and karma: various forms of hinduism teaches the idea that "enlightenment" will permit levitation (actual floating) and karma is the notion that some sort of synchronicity exists causing "good" where "good" is done and "evil" where "evil" is done. And let's not forget reincarnation, the notion that good people will come back as a higher life form and bad people as a lower form. (See also India's "caste system", still used to discriminate against some people despite being illegal.)

Dead people walking: christianity has this, as does judaism (golems) and vodun (a/k/a voodoo), the belief that with certain spells, the dead can rise and walk again.

Personification of animals and objects, a/k/a animism: whether it's North American tradition ideas of animal spirits, Korean traditional religions, African or other, there is belief that animals are sentient and godlike.

Denial of existence: buddhists take a solipsistic view that the real world does not exist and that experiences and reality are only impediments to enlightenment, and that reality must be denied before reality can be understood.

Worshipping "satan" as the "good guy": Freemasons worship "jabulon" (loosely translated as "our lord satan on Earth") and believe "jabulon" is the good guy while "adonay" (the christian god) is the bad guy. Many social lodges (Elks, Moose, Kinsmen, Lions, etc.) require freemasonry as part of their membership. Also, in Iraq, the Kurdish Yezidi religion believes that after "lucifer" fell, he apologized and was "back in god's graces", and they worship him as a "good" entity; Yezidi is an Abrahamic religion (like christianity, judaism and islam) but is separate from all three.



This is only a partial list, and I am not an expert on religion.