If you werent what you are now, what would you be?

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If, God forbid, you suddenly lost your faith in your current religion, what religous group or sect do you think you would join?

For me I think that if I lost my faith as a Catholic I would either become Eastern Orthodox or Zarathrusti. What are your thoughts?
 
You’d be returning to search of self, pretty sure that’s how everyone arrived where they are, be it lost or found. What if the first person you met was an atheist?
 
In moments of disillusionment in the past I have asked myself a similar question. I have never been able to find a satisfactory answer - because there simply isn’t one. Catholicism is my home and, for the most part, the source of my contentment. Any time I have been disillusioned, upon proper reflection I have always been able to determine that it was always people and not my faith that was causing my issues. And, as such, it has only strengthened my faith to realise this.
 
I consider hypothetical brain exercises of this particular type to be rather fruitless. 😛
 
FireFromHeaven said:
If, God forbid, you suddenly lost your faith in your current religion, what religous group or sect do you think you would join?

For me I think that if I lost my faith as a Catholic I would either become Eastern Orthodox or Zarathrusti. What are your thoughts?
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Hello FireFromHeaven,
I would start the church of the Magnificent Daises.
It works on this principle: We live through this life to become something better afterwards. So with our life over we go to the cemetery where grass grows over us and then the daisies start to appear. Would you like to consider joining?👍

I’ll stay a Roman Catholic. It makes too much sense to me.
 
Huh, when I read t his thread I thought you meant occupation. As a revert, I am just where I want to be forever. Been there, done that, did not satisfy.
 
Losing my faith in Catholicism would be equivalent to losing my faith in God entirely, in which case I would become an atheist.
 
DexUK said:
In moments of disillusionment in the past I have asked myself a similar question. I have never been able to find a satisfactory answer - because there simply isn’t one. Catholicism is my home and, for the most part, the source of my contentment. Any time I have been disillusioned, upon proper reflection I have always been able to determine that it was always people and not my faith that was causing my issues. And, as such, it has only strengthened my faith to realise this.
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Agreed. Even in my lowest I never can leave the church. I have contemplated the above two several times but in the end I always stay.
 
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hello firefromheaven,
i would start the church of the magnificent daises.
It works on this principle: We live through this life to become something better afterwards. So with our life over we go to the cemetery where grass grows over us and then the daisies start to appear. Would you like to consider joining?👍

I’ll stay a roman catholic. It makes too much sense to me.
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😛
 
Probably a Wiccan. But that’s not likely to happen… You can’t easily *un-know *something.
 
Hmm, I don’t know. I couldn’t go back to any form of Protestant Christianity because the very foundation of that faith (sola scriptura) is a logical fallacy. Mormonism is pretty internally consistent, but I couldn’t ignore all the historical errors. Judaism is too insular and Islam requires belief in revisionist history. Other religions aren’t intellectual or concrete enough for me. Maybe Buddhism. Maybe. In all honestly, I think I’d probably just end up becoming a deist.
 
If I lost faith in Jesus, I’d be Jewish. If I lost faith in religion, a Deist.
 
That’s one of the things I really appreciate about being Unitarian Universalist: you don’t have to leave if your metaphysical ideas shift.
 
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