Religion-who has it? And where do you draw the line?

What faith are you?

  • Christian

    Votes: 4 40.0%

  • Muslim

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Hindu

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Buddhist

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Jewish

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 1 10.0%

  • None

    Votes: 5 50.0%
  • Total voters
    10
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TheBaronGroog

Noob
I'minterested in people's faith and how far they believe/adhere to their religious book(s) and dogmas. I am not interested in a slanging match, belittling anyone or getting Al's forum bombed.

How far do you believe/follow doctrine? Do you take your holy book literally and believe it word for word or do you pick and choose the parts to follow and parts to ignore? How do you justify these variations?

For example, a good friend of mine is Jewish, when we were in school he loved a bacon sandwich and used to sneak round to a friends house before school to indulge. He's now Kosher, except for when he has a burger-it has to have cheese on it. I asked him about this and his response was "You can't follow it all without becoming Orthodox" so I asked "Why eat cheeseburgers and not pork?" he replied "I accept not eating pork while eating cheeseburgers is odd, I know not eating pork was to prevent food poisoning and is no risk now but it is not so bad to have a little cheese on a burger as you can eat both separately"

This left me a little flummoxed and spawned this thread. I look forward to hearing what anyone has to say.
 
My experience is that living the completely christian life is VERY difficult at best Especially living in a "world" that no longer accepts it. It is also very easy to be hypocritical, beating someone up for THEIR sins while accepting your own little "pet sins." Most religions are about keeping rules and regulations, christianity was different from the start - it was man that added most of the silly rules.
 
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