This one has been going in my kind for a while so I’m just asking out
Is it weird for a person to have their own religious beliefs system? Like they don’t adhere to a said religion and just has theirs own beliefs system , for example : a bit of Christian and paganist beliefs that someone personally upholds but doesn’t adhere to neither of these religions, just their own beliefs system
Its honestly really common. Most people sorta mostly believe in their religion and sorta pick and choose whats important to them about it and often grab add ons they come across. A heavily catholic hispanic area I lived in had these psychics who would integrate catholic saints into their thing and make it semi religious and plenty of religious catholics took it in as a thing.
No weirder than any other kind of religious belief, I suppose. The Quakers have this kind of pretty loose approach to doctrine, for instance, and they’re generally pretty decent people.
I don’t really “believe” in anything, but I do hope that there is an afterlife in the sense of “you go where you want to go”. I’ve got a whole little world planned out for myself if there’s something out there listening.
Maybe it’s nitpicking but having a moral code is a normal thing, having a religious belief system is weird, or at least not the norm.
Arguably, even the most devout of devout have their own unique mixture of beliefs, because the scripture is inconsistent and has parts that are unclear.
I’d say that literally everyone has a unique set of beliefs, even atheists will hold into some superstitions, often unaware they are.
I’m atheist, I still do “touch wood” (a pagan thing that got coopted by UK Protestantism, that to prevent a jinx or bring a blessing, you say “touch wood” and tap the nearest wooden thing), cause it does something in my brain, a comforting effect
I never really thought about it before but semantically ‘atheist’ only means ‘no belief in God or gods’. Technically it shouldn’t preclude belief in spirits or other supernatural elements. I suppose the closest thing to complete disbelief in the supernatural is ‘skeptic’ but even that’s up for interpretation. Do satanism and humanism explicitly rule out any supernatural?
Having religious beliefs in general is pretty weird so you’re OK.
Its all made up, so you’re free to make up your own stuff too I guess.
You will probably find most people in Lemmy are Atheist or agnostic, IMO, but you do need to find your own belief system.
While having your own belief system is unusual in our conformist society, it is not weird. What is weird is that so many people blindly follow someone else’s belief system.
No. Every religion started that way.
It’s weird but not uncommon. There are lots of weird people out there. You’ll have company.
Many religions are a packaged deals. Meaning they have their own metaphysical beliefs, morality, commandments etc. If people only take some parts of it and not the other, then there will be injustices not only by the outsider’s morality but also the insider ones.
Anyways, today we have laws that have largely replaced religion’s morality and social justice elements precisely because mixing and matching multiple different moralities and justice systems wasn’t very good. So i guess its fine to mix beliefs today
Mixed beliefs have always existed, they’re nothing new.
And just cause religion is sold as a package, doesn’t mean people use everything in it. How many Jewish people do you know that go “I’m Jewish, but I eat pork”? It’s pretty darn common. How many Christians do you know that wear mixed fabrics?
You’re referring to Syncretism, and it’s extremely common in the Western world. 25% of American Christians report believing in reincarnation.
No, for most of human history people had to have their own beliefs, it’s only relatively recently these monotheistic cultures forced so the free thinkers to believe the same things
It’s fairly common, in my experience.
Literally every religion except the first one are formed via this method.
