What religion is the most Veeky Forums?

I'm Catholic but not practicing. Will raise my kids Catholic though. Was wondering about maybe converting to Orthodoxy since it's the original. What's the difference between it and Catholicism?

I don't know what religion the shaolin monks are...buddhism?
>tfw can't into monk-mode

One follows the bishop of Rome and one follows the bishop of
>enter local religious capital here
Some different saints and a different calendar but all the really important stuff is the same. Some Orthodox Churches are considered to be in full communion with Rome so they're actually the same pastoral community same way Californians and Texans are both Americans.

are atheists ever going to make it? I became le edgy atheist in my edgy years and have since become less edgy but it's not like I can trick myself into believing in god again. what do

Catholicism. Orthodox have to fast from meat and dairy for half the year and Protestants just get fat.

No religion. There's no god

Atheism:

>You're not special and loved by some supernatural being.

>Your achievements are either your hard work or luck.

People who unironically follow norse paganism are usually fat incels that are way too into skyrim

This. Second closest would be early American puritanism imo.
>no indulgence
>farming all day
>glorify god through taking care of your body

Protestant master race here.
Catholics are a meme

Get into some serious metaphysical philosophy and understand God isn't a person in the sky but is the alpha and Omega. Everything that was before and will be after. HE is the way and the Light. Christianity is a practice and lifestyle not a magical incantation. It's a powerful philosophy and way to lead your life when practiced in full. The existence of God without thought or questions is actually one of the last and hardest leaps of faith

I'm an English protestant (Anglican) and I feel like in the last few centuries it was probably very Veeky Forums as it was practiced by rural farmers. Recently though it's pure shit full of people saying 'I know the Bible SAYS this but it actually MEANS this thing that I already agree with. Jesus would totally love hedonism and greed!'

>Church founded by Peter is a meme
Thanks for the input Cletus

Confused Islam here. I thought just being a good man is enough to get accepted in heaven...

fattie from netherlands detected

This is just vague shit and I'd have to be retarded to delude myself into it.

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I can't post all the details here. You gotta look that shit up yourself. Read city of God by St. Augustine. Really get into metaphysics and shit that's all.

cba to make the same points again. tldr: norse paganism is for autistics

Probably Chechen Sufi Islam.

I went from edgy atheist to Buddhist.

Clinging to the sense of ego is the root of suffering, the only way to avoid suffering is to detach yourself from a sense of 'me' and meditate.

Philosophically Catholics and Buddhism is so close it's crazy. It makes me really consider the Krishna/Christ theory. Brahman is a lot like the holy Spirit too. I think both religions were divinely inspired.

There are no good men. Jesus Christ was and is the only good human, God incarnate in the flesh

People who unironically follow christianity are retards brain-washed by jews

>TFW can't make myself believe in Christianity so I just watch Jordan Peterson lectures on youtube and try not to be a tipmaster

I think the guy who made the image is a catholic

"You have to look at it yourself." That's what the scientologists told me about dianetics.

Maybe after a time in purgatory. It's hard to know only He can judge our actions on Earth, any mere mortal who gurantees you place in heaven is a false prophet taking an explicit power of God and placing it in his own hands.
>Tipping intensifies

Well did you? Besides I'm not charging you a fee to look.

I like the 'Jesus was a Buddhist' theory.

He's has a point. You can't have people spoonfeed you a religion, that's what's wrong with the world today. Read some religious texts, and find your own meanings and interpretations.

Probably.

t. Catholic

What you just described sounds closer to pantheism user.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscular_Christianity

lol Brahman is Hindu not Buddhist.

And though maybe sin in catholicism and attachment in Buddhism are similar, Buddhism has no similar idea of faith, or God or being saved (unless you're pure land but that's completely different)

Hellenism or Stoicism. Ancient Greece was a basically a bodybuilders heaven. All citizen did was work out and philosophize. The city market in Athens was basically a fucking gym.

>implying they had enough time to seriously train their bodies between starving and raiding

>Norse
You're laughing stock of the world.
There are some differences on fundamental level (I dont really remember them though). I don't think changing your faith is a good idea just because current Pope seems to be suboptimal.

I've gotten a little bit into Buddhism, I meditate occasionally and have read a couple of books. any recommended resources?

Pantheism strips the God from personality and purpose. It's fundamentally something else.

>One God
>Pantheism
Either math or vocab or both weren't really your thing in school huh?

If you haven't already, read Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Gunaratana. Best one book resource on vipassana meditation.

If you have a good amount of meditation experience and don't want to be a pleb, Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha by Daniel Ingram

If you want to learn more about Buddhist thought, read What Makes You Not a Buddhist by Dzongsar Khyentse, or if you're a Veeky Forumsbro or philosophy bro, Buddhism as Philosophy by Mark Siderits

>find your own meanings and interpretations
That's what you do with novels user.

That's like saying God isn't Christian he's Jewish. Buddhism evolved from Hinduism and carries the tradition of Brahman with it, though in a less emphasized/augmented interpretation.

He was describing god as a force of the universe, not a being.

It's hilarious the way this triggers people.

>a giant wolf? Fuck off LARPer!
>now about this talking snake

The hypocrisy of it

Well one part of the eightfold path is right view, that is sort of like faith. And the promise of Nirvana is sort of like being saved, although I agree it is not a direct mapping between each other, especially since Nirvana is not really explicitly taught as an 'end goal'

Read 'In the Buddha's words' by Bhikkhu Bodhi, you can find it online. That's where I started at least.

The ancient Greek religion

Ya, but Buddhism developed and evolved to be a direct challenge to Hinduism.

Literally the whole point of anatta (no-self), one of the central teachings in Buddhism is that there is no atman or brahman, and that in fact, attachment to those ideas of a metaphysical soul or a metaphysical unity lead to suffering

thanks anons, will read these.

You are saved by grace through faith in Jehova/Jesus/Yehoshua/Yahweh. Works is not enough. Jesus/Yeshua was God in the flesh, came to kill the old law to bring the new one, he was the law in the flesh and there needed to be blood to end the old covenant.
Faith without works is dead, but you are no saved by works alone.

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zyzz is the master u mirn bro lol were all gonna make it

He is all and omnipotent. He is bigger than a being and definitely more than a force of the universe because he is more than the universe itself. Alpha and Omega

Right? Being Scandinavian I always enjoyed the mythology, the stories are good man.

But Islam says that Jesus/Yeshua was sjust a normal prophet, meant to be God's last prophet ot kill the old law and bring the new one, but his followers fucked it up and elevated him to a God and turned him into a new idol.

Because of that, God had to send another prophet, i.e. Muhammad, to be the final prophet and set things right for once

True. I looked it up again. Turns out the uni teacher that taught me that was memeing some new age shit on me but what else is new.

This plus veganism, odin drank cockmilk you should too

in my opinion, the word of jesus/god has been so dreadfully warped over time through mistranslations, alterations, changing cultures and vagueness that his original ideas and teachings are all but entirely lost to us

catholicism is a completely corrupted and twisted farce and protestantism is not true to the bible. don't know anything about orthdoxy though.

also, how do you guys get over the fact that if you were born in saudi arabia you'd be muslims? not being autistic, just asking what your thoughts are on this.

I feel blessed and thank God everyday.

Religion is stupid unless its mine :^)

Honestly your choices are ultimately not yours anyway, well they are in a way but they are predetermined by factors like the one you just mentioned.

Now you could try to act accordingly and just say nothing matters because free will is a meme anyway or you can accept it as an abstract and live on as the best person you can be anyway.

So yes, I fully recognize that I would most likely be muslim if I was born in Saudi Arabia.

How does this mesh with the Messianic prophecies Jesus fulfilled though? Also do Muslims believe in a Messiah?

Wait, so in buddhism there is no soul or do you need to give up the soul?

No, Buddhism is much more analogous to Protestantism as it is a patriarchal (non in the meme sense but literally) interpretation of Jainism, like Protestantism is a patriarchal interpretation of Catholicism.

This desu. Greek was literally the ancient Veeky Forums

>Self-improvement
>Aesthetics
>Incidental homosexuality OK
>Homosexuality OK
>Persians attacking? Don't worry brah, we're all gonna make it

>more than the universe itself.
lol at christians trying to bend their religion to fit with the science we now know

religion is an ever decreasing margin these days, each scientific discovery piling on the pressure and cutting off the validity of more and more of their claims...sooner or later brehs your religions are barely going to be more than philosophical guides

>This is an original teaching of the Catholic Church
But keep talking out your ass though.

so would you describe your religion as a way of interpreting the world in your own personal philosophy but within a religious context? i am a former believer and now find it difficult to comprehend the idea of people truly believing that there is a heaven and a hell etc, but i do think the values christianity instills by using those images as symbols of a greater moral philosophy to be worthy of great respect.

Not the other user but I'm pretty sure having steadfast faith at the time of our death gives you an ideal pineal gland trip too which is why it's iconography shows up so much in religious contexts like the Vatican etc.

Guys what demonination of christianity is closest to the original? I wanna find a church but dont want a liberal lax rules church. I also dont like churches that pressure members into donations. Maybe I shouldnt go to church.

I am sorry but it is wrong.
I was a hardcore atheist a year ago and didnt grow up with anything God related, but Jesus was God.
God cannot lie, with his prophets, he said one would come, the messiah and he would be called Emmanuel, which meant literally "God with us". Its meant to be read poetically, not LITERALLY his name. Jesus was perfect and could not sin because God cannot sin.
Jesus, Jehova, is the only thing you can call on and PHYSICALLY feel his presence, the holy ghost. No other false god.
Its a common misconception that "allah" is the same as Jehova, it is not true. Jesus/Jehova is love, nothing more and nothing less, and any true follower would never be led to sin against another with his will.

The difference between religion is that its some man made construct, instead of just being a follower and having a relationship with God. It seems totally crazy, i was a hardcore atheist a year ago and thought God was something for people who cant think for themselves.

get rid of religion which is man-made, get into a relationship with God.

I've been interested in both Stoicism and Buddhism, both philosophies seem to foster admirable qualities

Yeah just go innawoods and be like Francis of Assisi.

>Catholic but not practicing.
So, not catholic then.

Faggots in this thread not praying to R'hllor, the Lord of Light.

Never gonna make it.

I'm unironically doing this, I just moved out into the country and plan to move even further out once I can afford a few acres.

i would say most apostolic pentecostal churches that are truly bible based

how can i do that if i'm not convinced of his existence?

the way i see it, the idea of a creator is possible, though by no means a given. if a creator exists, why do i have any right to assume it gives half a shit about me, and why should i give half a shit about it, given that i don't know its motives? further, why would ancient spiritual leaders have any authority to describe this creator?

there's just too much doubt. i couldn't have a relationship with god even if i wanted to.

A retired mechanic is still a fucking mechanic.

I'd by lying if I said I didn't have time to go to church, I'd just feel awkward going back (think going to the gym for the first time). Plus my wife is a divorcee and I don't know how they'd treat that. I'm definitely going to start going to church after I have a kid or two. Think it's important to teach them some culture or give them some zeal.

the holy ghost is evidence. you have to feel it for yourself, it is absolutely real and everyone can get it. im the guy who above also posted that i was an atheist a year ago.
the universe was created i feel, for fellowship with god out of love.

read Hebrews 11:1

faith seems crazy because you cannot see it, but if you felt the holy ghost after asking for it through faith, or can manifest itself beforehand to lead you there, you WILL know. again it sounds nuts because most people want evidence (as do i)

you do matter because God IS love and nothing less, the end game is to get you to repent and accept him as the creator. there was a lot of wrong people and are still today but unless they were levitical priests or true followers of God, nobody had any authority.

he says these people draw night unto me with their mouths, and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

Not a religion but the Path of Sincerity, similar sentiments on the gods have been echoed in Western thought and well...everywhere really
>"A certain person said, "In the Saint's mausoleum there is a poem that goes :
>"If in one's heart
>He follows the path of sincerity,
>Though he does not pray
>Will not the gods protect him?"
>What is this path of sincerity?"
>A man answered him by saying, ''You seem to like poetry. I will answer you with a poem.
>As everything in this world is but a sham,
>Death is the only sincerity.
>It is said that becoming as a dead man in one's daily living is the following of the path of sincerity."
>-Yamamoto Tsunetomo, The Hagakure

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>A retired mechanic is still a fucking mechanic.
No he fucking isn't!

>it's important to teach them some culture
Yeah mate, I think I can see how importantly you treat it.

Atheist with christian values, also a national socialist. Following a cloud god is for the weak of mind

at the risk of sounding autistic, feelings can be described by certain parts of the brain lighting up and certain chemicals in the body interacting with each other, even very extreme feelings and physical effects can be induced by the brain if the power of suggestion, placebo or some other illusion is there. the feeling you describe of the holy ghost can be described that way, and I must accept this hypothesis because the alternative hypothesis (god existing etc) is absurd because there's no proof. its a cliche but if we're going to accept something absurd as the answer to that feeling, then anything equally absurd is an equally viable explanation on that criteria. if we're going by your logic i could easily assert that its the giganigga gently buttfucking your soul, so why is the concept of a religious god any better of an answer than that?

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>lying to yourself about gods existence is hard, so first you have to delude yourself by strictly adhering to seemingly unimportant rules and practices.

Get the fuck out of here, you know nothing about "serious metaphysical philosophy" you talk like a deluded creep who is too stupid to do anything but throw around buzz words.
KYS, then let me know if MUH SRS PHILOSOFEEZ got you anywhere.

no one thinks god is a cloud, or an old guy with a beard

>retired
>has a job
pick 1