will you change your religion if you find other one is better than you

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   Bikash jhaposted 13 years ago

   will you if yes then why and no then why?

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      Beelzedadposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Wouldn't that make religion more about what a person wants to believe as opposed to what a god would want you to believe?

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      nlowmanposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      No religion is better than me.

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   BobbiRantposted 13 years ago

   I did change mine because at 15 I didn't think anyone had the right path.  So when I found what I believed to be the truth, I switched.

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   leebertteaposted 13 years ago

   No. They are all the same, and yet there is only one God.

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      britneydavidsonposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      yes i agree with you there is only one God-and one religion.

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         kessposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         my religion does not need changing because it changes for the better as I grow in my faith.
         
         My religion is called truth and life and it is moulding me unto perfection.

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   Greek Oneposted 13 years ago

   you mean like you might change underwear or socks?

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      nlowmanposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Only if the next pair is better than you.

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         Greek Oneposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         my socks might be better than me.. but not my underwear

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   renskeiposted 13 years ago

   religion is the way of life,
   religion can't saved us, only through  the Lord Jesus Christ if you believe Him.
                cause we had a volition to accept  or reject Him. the bible says " For God so Loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting Life".

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   pisean282311posted 13 years ago

   I sometimes say that religion is something we can perhaps do without. What we cannot do without are the basic spiritual qualities.-Dalai Lama

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   Shadesbreathposted 13 years ago

   Since my religion is to not have one, I would change to a religion if one came about that wasn't ridiculous.  Like, if Jesus showed up, and this time on TV, and started performing miracles for a while with everyone watching, skeptics trying to debunk him.  Maybe came to my house for a while too, hung out, did some miracles around the house.  Maybe make my wife's mean cat nice or something. Grow my hair back.  Stuff like that, then yes, I'd buy in and "change" my religion.

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      Greek Oneposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      As per your wife's animal..
      
      Jesus does not focus his attention on making a mean pussy change her attitude.
      
      That's the job of the apple martini

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         Shadesbreathposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         I hear Jesus can mix a mad drink.

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      Mark Knowlesposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Can he make me thinner and taller while he is at it please? I wouldn't mind a bit of cash as well. And a new car - maybe a Porsche Cayenne or a Range Rover Sport? In black please. I am not fussy which one.
      
      Which reminds me:
      
      
      
      

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         pisean282311posted 13 years agoin reply to this

         

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   snagerriesposted 13 years ago

   I dont think its a worth doing so.

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   china manposted 13 years ago

   I think it is a great idea - each religion could advertise its main attributes
   
   Hellfire
   Damnation
   Sodomy with choirboys
   Virgins in heaven
   Armaggedon is a cummin and ony we is goona be saved
   Gay bashing
   A whole set of moral indignations
   veils
   Klan hoods
   
   and so on and so on and so on
   
   Oh I forgot - slavery

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      Shadesbreathposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Dude, you forgot polygamy.  That's the one that will get you converts.

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         Rochelle Frankposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         So you only want Male converts?

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            Shadesbreathposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            Rochelle, you can have as many husbands as you want!  Or wives if your state allows it.

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               Rochelle Frankposted 13 years agoin reply to this

               Why would anyone want more husbands?

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                  Shadesbreathposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                  That was sort of my point. 

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                     Greek Oneposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                     alimony x 10

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                        Rochelle Frankposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                        That reminds me of Zsa-Zsa Gabor who boasted about being a really good housekeeper-- divorced 7 times and always kept the house.

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                        myownworldposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                        
                        
                        btw. do u know how muslim men defend the idea of polygamy? It's based on the logic that you only take 4 wives 'if you can do justice to all of them'. And provided each wife consents to it too.
                        Now one asks, which woman in her right mind would 'allow' her husband to marry another woman..and what exactly is meant by 'justice' to each?!

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                           Greek Oneposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                           come on.. doesnt the idea intrigue you just a little?
                           
                           just think about all the help you would get cleaning up and stuff around the house?
                           
                           or are you soooo selfish that you must have a guy all to yourself 24/7?
                           
                           

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                              Daniel Carterposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                              Um, well, in the US, polygamy looks like this....
                              
                              
                              
                              With all due respect to individual beliefs, knowing what kind of mentality this life style is, I'd rather clean my own house, thankyouverymuch.

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                                 Greek Oneposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                                 nice dresses though

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                                 myownworldposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                                 
                                 
                                 ah... thank god for men like you in this world...!
                                 
                                 but you'll be surprised, in an orthodox muslim culture, you'll be scorned at for an answer like that... not 'man' enough, you see....

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                                    Greek Oneposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                                    not only there MOW...
                                    
                                    he lost me at "clean my own house"

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                              myownworldposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                              you're right... I AM that selfish....!
                              
                              (I bet men find the idea way more intriguing btw...it's certainly geared for their pleasure..!)

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                                 Daniel Carterposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                                 Herd mentality. One must run off the other males. Hence all the problems in US polygamy colonies. They run off the young males and excommunicate them because they are posed as a threat, unless they are "yes" men.
                                 
                                 But I like this idea better. Someone thinking for themselves...
                                 
                                 

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                                 Greek Oneposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                                 not really...
                                 
                                 if I had 10 or so wives, I could theoretically have a spouse with PMS in the house 365 days a year

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                           Shadesbreathposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                           This is long (and only an excerpt) but funny and to the point.  It's from Mark Twain's Letters From The Earth - the last half of letter number VIII.  They are letters "from" Satan writing back to Michael and Gabriel after a trip to study humans on Earth.  Mark Knowles will LOVE the whole thing if he hasn't read it before.
                           
                           The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other sex sexually, at any time of life.
                           
                           The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in man's construction is this: During your entire life you shall be under inflexible limits and restrictions, sexually.
                           
                           During twenty-three days in every month (in absence of pregnancy) from the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. As competent as the candlestick is to receive the candle. Competent every day, competent every night. Also she wants that candle -- yearns for it, longs for it, hankers after it, as commanded by the law of God in her heart.
                           
                           But man is only briefly competent; and only then in the moderate measure applicable to the word in his sex's case. He is competent from the age of sixteen or seventeen thence-forward for thirty-five years. After fifty his performance is of poor quality, the intervals between are wide, and its satisfactions of no great value to either party; whereas his great-grandmother is as good as new. There is nothing the matter with her plant. Her candlestick is as firm as ever, whereas his candle is increasingly softened and weakened by the weather of age, as the years go by, until at last it can no longer stand, and is mournfully laid to rest in the hope of a blessed resurrection which is never to come.
                           
                           By the woman's make, her plant has to be out of service three days in the month, and during a part of her pregnancy. These are times of discomfort, often of suffering. For fair and just compensation she has the high privilege of unlimited adultery all the other days of her life.
                           
                           That is the law of God, as revealed in her make. What becomes of this high privilege? Does she live in free enjoyment of it? No. Nowhere in the whole world. She is robbed of it everywhere. Who does this? Man. Man's statutes -- if the Bible is the Word of God.
                           
                           Now there you have a sample of man's "reasoning powers," as he calls them. He observes certain facts. For instance, that in all his life he never sees the day that he can satisfy one woman; also, that no woman ever sees the day that she can't overwork, and defeat, and put out of commission any ten masculine plants that can be put to bed to her.[**] He puts those strikingly suggestive and luminous facts together, and from them draws this astonishing conclusion: The Creator intended the woman to be restricted to one man.
                           
                           So he concretes that singular conclusion into law, for good and all.
                           
                           And he does it without consulting the woman, although she has a thousand times more at stake in the matter than he has. His procreative competency is limited to an average of a hundred exercises per year for fifty years, hers is good for three thousand a year for that whole time -- and as many years longer as she may live. Thus his life interest in the matter is five thousand refreshments, while hers is a hundred and fifty thousand; yet instead of fairly and honorably leaving the making of the law to the person who has an overwhelming interest at stake in it, this immeasurable hog, who has nothing at stake in it worth considering, makes it himself!
                           
                           You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.
                           
                           Now if you or any other really intelligent person were arranging the fairness and justices between man and woman, you would give the man one-fiftieth interest in one woman, and the woman a harem. Now wouldn't you? Necessarily. I give you my word, this creature with the decrepit candle has arranged it exactly the other way. Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life he could not have kept two of these young creatures satisfactorily refreshed, even if he had had fifteen experts to help him. Necessarily almost the entire thousand had to go hungry years and years on a stretch. Conceive of a man hardhearted enough to look daily upon all that suffering and not be moved to mitigate it. He even wantonly added a sharp pang to that pathetic misery; for he kept within those women's sight, always, stalwart watchmen whose splendid masculine forms made the poor lassies' mouths water but who hadn't anything to solace a candlestick with, these gentry being eunuchs. A eunuch is a person whose candle has been put out. By art.[**]
                           
                           From time to time, as I go along, I will take up a Biblical statute and show you that it always violates a law of God, and then is imported into the lawbooks of the nations, where it continues its violations. But those things will keep; there is no hurry.
                           
                           (Mysterylady 89 reminded me of this a couple of weeks back and I've been having a ball with it.  It was totally wasted on me when I was young.)

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                              myownworldposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                              wow... brilliant stuff... caught off guard actually (am reading and smiling...) thx for the link.. want to read more now...  will get back later

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      myownworldposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      AND adultery/fornication as 'crimes'....
      endless guilt....
      obsession with 'sin' and the idea of torturing people for it..
      intolerance...
      wars.. suicide bombings....
      not to mention all the insufferable threads started on HP!

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    Mighty Momposted 13 years ago

    *Lightbulb Flash*
    OMG, Jesus DID come on TV and perform miracles, then he died for sins (his own, not ours,but that's a mere technicality).
    I'm switching religions IMMEDIATELY!
    My new religion is Sham-Wow

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       nlowmanposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       I saw his face on a cheesecake.

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          Dave Barnettposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          Threatened to turn my back on my path, something happened. Convinced me. If your path is true, then it never wavers. If you find untruth in your path, then correct it. The only way to make it through the darkness. The spirit is enlightened when the spirit is ready for more light.

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       Shadesbreathposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       You know, I failed to recognize that as a sign.  I feel so silly now.

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          Mark Knowlesposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          Ummmmm
          
          I really hate to bring this up, but - I am no taller or thinner. And I am still waiting for the Range Rover Sport. Black is good; tinted windows; brown leather; Blaupunkt stereo.
          
          No rush. Tomorrow is good. I promised my wife. I am sure you understand.
          
          Thanks.

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             Shadesbreathposted 13 years agoin reply to this

             Dude, I'll just be happy if He does something about that goddamn cat.  Piece of crap just bites people for no reason.  It's like a rabid dog, except it's a cat.  And doesn't foam at the mouth.  Well, I mean it would if you were, like, trying to brush its teeth or something, but why would you?  That would be dumb considering I just told you it bites.

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                Mark Knowlesposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                Look - dude,
                
                Not really interested in the cat - no offense. Cats should be kept outside at all times, and any cats stupid enough to bite the hand that feeds them,. well........ they get what they get.
                
                About the taller and thinner......... When is this happening exactly?
                
                And the Range Rover Sport. Black, tinted windows, brown leather, Blaupunkt...........
                
                Not that I am being pushy, but - I promised. Capische?
                
                A/C - did I mention the A/C? Really hot - probably a good addition? You agree?

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                   Greek Oneposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                   speaking of promises.. where is my $4 !?!?!

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                   Shadesbreathposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                   Hey, it's not like I'm not rooting for you over here.  'Cause I am.
                   
                   
                   You wouldn't know what to do with that kind of money if you DID get it.

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                      Mark Knowlesposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                      That is all well and good, but I am still only 6 ft and a svelte 290 pounds.I mean - WTF, Dude?
                      
                      And where is the car I was promised?
                      Not happy at all. 
                      
                      I Do not trust that Greek with $4 - seriously - he will blow it on loose women and bumper stickers in no time.
                      
                      Just look at that Maddie Ruud Chick - she is all over him. That $4 will be gone in no time.

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                         Shadesbreathposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                         LOL, I think you and I go to the same trainer.
                         
                         And I'm sure you are right about Greek One.

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                      Greek Oneposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                      I just want to convert it into 400 really old pennies... and then rub them all over my body until the green comes off and Honest Abe is shinning again

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                         Greek Oneposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                         damn,, was that out loud?

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                         Daniel Carterposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                         That's not the advice I was given.
                         It was...
                         take four of these and rub on affected area until relief occurs...
                         
                         
                         
                         Obviously that can't be right. Four doesn't seem like enough, either. Especially with all the rubbing...
                         
                         But I guess if 4 bucks works for ya, it's fine....

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             nlowmanposted 13 years agoin reply to this

             Did you ask the cheesecake?
             
             Or maybe it was the cheesesteak....Now I'm confused

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    TheQuestionposted 13 years ago

    i am not sure i even understand the question

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       myownworldposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       hmm... ironic, no?
       
       welcome here btw...

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          TheQuestionposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          yes and i have seen your pretty face here before thank you

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    paarsurreyposted 13 years ago

    Will you change your religion if you find other one is better than you?
    
    Hi friends
    
    If I find any other religion more truthful that Quran/Islam/Muhammad; I would definitely. That is what we pray may times a day:
    
    [1:5] Thee alone do we worship and Thee alone do we implore for help.
    [1:6] Guide us in the right path —
    [1:7] The path of those on whom Thou hast bestowed Thy blessings, those who have not incurred Thy displeasure, and those who have not gone astray.
    
    http://www.alislam.org/quran/search2/sh … r.php?ch=1
    
    Thanks
    
    I am an Ahmadi peaceful Muslim
    
    
    
    Thanks

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    Onusonusposted 13 years ago

    If God gave you the truth why look for more flare? Be content with what he has revealed to you, if he's revealed anything at all to you. Otherwise keep looking.

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