Poll for the religious

[George-ananda]

From your knowledge base; don't you accept that there have been multiple avatars, and if we look into each individual religion, couldn't each be influenced by a different incarnation (Tho each of these stems from the One Source that creates reality)?

In my opinion.

In my opinion too. There is only One source of everything, but many cultures, so some religious differences seem to appear. But as humanity progresses through greater education and exposure, I see the more progressive ends of all religions start to blend and the differences becoming unimportant.

 

[1137]

No, because I already believe other gods exist and have made my choice.

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

The thread title really doesn't say that the deity appearing to you is asking you to worship it...it only asks for you to change your religion...that would add a layer of meaning to the proposition...

For polytheists I don't see that as necessarily a problem. For the various flavors of pantheists that really shouldn't be much of a problem, either....

 

[Ponder This]

Purely hypothetical question; please vote.

A fun, speculative mental exercise. It's sort of like asking people what they would do if they won the lottery. It's fun to think of all the different things you might do, but hard to say what you would actually do until it actually happens to you.

Spaghetti Monster: "Change Religions!"
Me: "... wait, so does mean I should become an atheist now?"

 

[Liu]

A bit late to the thread, but feeling like replying anyway.

Such an experience might make me more certain that spirits/polytheistic deities exist. But that is irrelevant to my pantheistic beliefs, so, no.

But probably it wouldn't convince me anyway as I'm still too much of a skeptic.

Depending on what exactly that deity told me, I might include it into the deities I work with, though.

 

[Sundance]

Purely hypothetical question; please vote.

For me, as a person who accepts that different cultures and religions have various different deities, my first question would be:

“From which culture did you come? Are you of the Greeks?, the Romans?, the Celts?, the Chinese?, the Jews?, the Hindus?”

Should they reply with, say,

“I am of the Celts.”

I would reply with,

“In order to properly devote myself to you, I feel that I must first become acquainted with the culture of the Celts, for I am not of them.”

After having done so, and should any other deity approach me likewise, I would do so. My acceptance of the deity or religion depends upon my deepening of experience of the culture of origin.

 

[Hockeycowboy]

That's basically what happened to me when I switched from atheist to monotheist, though there were no words or commands to join religion.

Wow, that's interesting!

 

[Hockeycowboy]

A bit late to the thread, but feeling like replying anyway.

Such an experience might make me more certain that spirits/polytheistic deities exist. But that is irrelevant to my pantheistic beliefs, so, no.

But probably it wouldn't convince me anyway as I'm still too much of a skeptic.

Depending on what exactly that deity told me, I might include it into the deities I work with, though.

If I may ask....what do you mean, the deities you "work" with?

 

[Liu]

If I may ask....what do you mean, the deities you "work" with?

Those that I venerate, take inspiration from, pray to, feel drawn towards, incorporate in rituals, ...

 

[Hockeycowboy]

Those that I venerate, take inspiration from, pray to, feel drawn towards, incorporate in rituals, ...

Ok, thank you.