I'm most attracted to high church Christianity. Appreciate the history, aesthetics, and some of the values. Can't swallow it whole because I think its mostly wishful thinking that a handful of brilliant men have worked tirelessly to give a modicum of philosophical ground to stand on, that and some of the values I just don't agree with (not offended by, just can't force myself to agree with them).
The more I read of taoism, the more I'm convinced its the ultimate red pill
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Don't become a follower of a religion that has no presence where you live, I will tell you that much. I think Eastern philosophy has a lot to be gained from reading, but it's application is limited in the West. Just my two cents though.
Oh no worries. My main aversion to eastern religion is that people in the United States that follow those beliefs are insufferable
Oh, I agree, ask any American buddhist what school they follow.
Judaism. I'm Palestinian and it would basically solve all of my problems.
The dharma has no school
Probably catholicism for aesthetic churches.
Hellenism
I mean sect, Esoteric, Pure Land etc
Traditional catholicism. Either tridentine rite or eastern.
It doesn't matter
Probably some denomination of Christianity. One that's more traditional.
Idk what to choose
It´s Christianity or atheism for me. Western people who convert to Eastern religions look and are ridiculous.
Since I´m not an atheist, that leaves me stuck with Christianity, and I fucking hate it.
Orphism, because it's the foundation of Kikeanity and contains the distilled wisdom of all ages.
>religion
No thanks,I'll stay with the teachings of Jesus instead
Interesting. Why exactly do you hate Christianity? What does being a Christian mean to you, in particular? How do you serve Christ and further his kingdom, one which he will eventually reign personally, on Earth?
Buddhism, or other Eastern religions/philosophies. I feel like the rejection of material desires would help me cope with an increasingly soulless Western life.
Hermeticism. It just makes sense, original, ancient. Likely the closest thing to the original religion of humanity.
IDK.
Ask half of American Christians what denomination they are and they can't answer either, so...
Either go back to being Catholic (my faith ain't great, but as a Filipino I'm basically bound to Catholicism by default) or something along the lines of Buddhism.
It's judaism or Catholicism for me. I lean Judaism because of the history but I honestly can't stand jewy people. It's just something about the way they look. Catholicism is way more aesthetic.
Not sure about that one. Most American Christians I've met know what denomination they're in. At the very least, you ask them what church they go to and the denomination is usually in the name.
I'm already a Traditional Roman Catholic.
Sunni Islam, I have read the Qur'an and the Bible, along with some other religious texts. Islam, when executed properly, just seems to make peace within a man, and their music/suras are very relaxing, give me chills every time.
Too bad i'm a nationalist socialist
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Petersonian Christianity.
I'd become a LARPING pagan
Shi'ite Sufism Islam
I like Christianity but I feel like I don't have the emotional or spiritual capacity to become religious, though maybe I am falling for born-again memes.
It's just metaphors for him right? Like a collection of useful ideas about psychological archetypes. He doesn't literally think these exist in the real world, or actually pray or anything.
>My main aversion to eastern religion is that people in the United States that follow those beliefs are insufferable
>I'm missing out on genuinely useful and life-changing philosophy and practices because hippies
Truly you are a faggot
Ex-taoist here
Christ is the correct way due to in how it actually operates in the spiritual world , if you expect to get much out of Christianity without the actual fundamental precepts of it's operation in applying faith to the subtle inner-workings of what flows around you 24/7 and just accept it as a strictly moralistic philosophy with 'myths' inter-laden, then of course it's not going to make sense to most people.
You also can't avoid the inherent "spiritim" that comes with the deeper , yet foundational levels of taoism, (literally divination on the level of throwing bones ie. drawing yarrow stalks to predict future outcomes/trends, among other practices)
Christ is practical as it is true, which gives further credence to it's truth
I'm more of the camp that the truth is less like the light of the sun, but more likened unto that of the stars, which are infinite in number and cancel out one another's light.
Given that, being born and raised Unitarian, by an hard-Atheist mother and a former Christian Scientist father, makes conversion rather pointless, but through the various branches I've been exposed to just about every other religion on the damned planet, from the pagan at CUUPS to the Thursday Buddhists, and the Sunday Christians, and even some LeVayan Satanists, Asatru, and neo-Aztecs.
That said, some of the more pantheistic flavors of Buddhism are somewhat appealing, if not "real' Buddhism, the esoteric nature of the Gnostics are always interesting, Catholics do great décor, the Hindu's have the best sci-fi drama, and the Baha'i offer the closet thing the Middle-Eastern world has to my mother church. I suppose if I had to convert to a specific religion, the most open and laid back variant of Buddhism would be the way to go, but if it was just a specific belief system, agnosticism with a strong appreciation for the value of religious philosophy and mysticism in general wouldn't exactly put me far from where I am at now, and I'm fairly happy with that.
...though I certainly could do with less of the SJW crap my church gets sucked into so often, which is why I suppose I hang less with the CUUPS group these days, and more with the older pragmatic Friday religious studies atheists. Gettin too old for that shit anyways, though the wicca pussy was great when I was young.