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 Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 8:03 pm
I read an article recently about how a growing number of people consider themselves to have a mixed spirituality. For example, they may be mainly Christian, but with Buddhist and Pagan elements mixed into their spirituality. Also, in the book Life of Pi, the main character considers himself to be simultaneously a Christian, Muslim, and Hindu. What are your opinions on having multiple religions or having mixed religions? Is it possible or does it not make any sense to you? Do any of you consider yourselves to have multiple faiths?
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Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 8:06 pm
Personally, I would say I have a fairly mixed spirituality. While I consider myself to be primarily Pagan, I definitely have Taoist, Buddhist, and Christian aspects of my faith. It's a bit hard to explain, but it works for me.
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Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 8:24 pm
Well, it really depends what you mix together. Some beliefs you just could NOT mix.
With Atheism and Scientology, you can mix those together.
But if you mix Atheism with Christianity, then you have some kind of problem.
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Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 8:35 pm
Well, neither atheism nor Scientology is a religion.
I can see mixing aspects of some religions, or at least, ideals normally attributed to some religions together, but to say you're of two religions implies there's some separation. That you're practicing two religions, not just mixing aspects together.
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Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 8:52 pm
I suppose some religions can be mixed, maybe, but others can't. If they contradict each other, you can't be both. If a person takes elements from two contradictory religions, they can't claim to follow either one, because they're not really meeting the requirements. It would be more accurate to say that they belong to neither, but are inspired by ideas present in two or more religions.
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Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 9:04 pm
AniMajor Well, neither atheism nor Scientology is a religion. I can see mixing aspects of some religions, or at least, ideals normally attributed to some religions together, but to say you're of two religions implies there's some separation. That you're practicing two religions, not just mixing aspects together.
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Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 9:54 pm
Captain_Shinzo I thought we were just talking of beliefs themselves and not religions. But since, you want to go there, my belief still stands. The OP did specify that we were talking about the possibility of a person having multiple religions, not just mixing beliefs.
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Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 10:12 pm
AniMajor Captain_Shinzo I thought we were just talking of beliefs themselves and not religions. But since, you want to go there, my belief still stands. The OP did specify that we were talking about the possibility of a person having multiple religions, not just mixing beliefs.
I mean, after all, the idea still works.
Contradicting ideas can't mix.
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Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 11:06 pm
Majnooni I suppose some religions can be mixed, maybe, but others can't. If they contradict each other, you can't be both. If a person takes elements from two contradictory religions, they can't claim to follow either one, because they're not really meeting the requirements. It would be more accurate to say that they belong to neither, but are inspired by ideas present in two or more religions. I pretty much agree with this. Now, I haven't studied every religion in the world thoroughly, so I can't say which religions, if any, could be mixed in such a fashion that you could honestly say you belong to both. Like Majnooni said, you have to meet the requirements of a certain faith to be a part of it, not just use elements. For example, someone couldn't say, "I believe in the 10 Commandments, but I don't believe in the Abrahamic God" and still call him/herself Jewish, Christian, or Muslim. They would certainly be borrowing tenants of the faith, but they would not be a member of that faith.
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Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 11:23 pm
I think as long as its not attempting mixing Polytheism and Monotheism together, it's possible.
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Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 11:26 pm
Call Me Apple I think as long as its not attempting mixing Polytheism and Monotheism together, it's possible. Depends on how strictly a religion requires monotheism vs. monolateralism.
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Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 12:33 am
I am a Heathen and I practise a separate Pagan religion as well. I also, on occasion, honour Greek deities, but I do not consider myself a member of Greek polytheistic religion.
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Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 9:43 am
Call Me Apple I think as long as its not attempting mixing Polytheism and Monotheism together, it's possible. I do it, and many hindus do it. Think of the other gods as faces of the one true power- Or in a modern analogy- The Internet is the source of knowledge and wisdom and is something separate from it's parts- It is the combined efforts of people. Each person is their own person doing their own thing, but their central point is the vast infrastructure that they are all part of. Or in nature, how each species is it's own, but they all work symbiotically in the Circle of Life with the higher power of Nature.
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Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 10:52 am
Captain_Shinzo AniMajor Captain_Shinzo I thought we were just talking of beliefs themselves and not religions. But since, you want to go there, my belief still stands. The OP did specify that we were talking about the possibility of a person having multiple religions, not just mixing beliefs.
I mean, after all, the idea still works.
Contradicting ideas can't mix.This is where I had a problem with the poll alone. Beliefs, faiths, and religions are seperate entities and only some can be mixed if they don't clash in what defines it in it's very self.
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Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 11:54 am
divineseraph Call Me Apple I think as long as its not attempting mixing Polytheism and Monotheism together, it's possible. I do it, and many hindus do it. Think of the other gods as faces of the one true power- Or in a modern analogy- The Internet is the source of knowledge and wisdom and is something separate from it's parts- It is the combined efforts of people. Each person is their own person doing their own thing, but their central point is the vast infrastructure that they are all part of. Or in nature, how each species is it's own, but they all work symbiotically in the Circle of Life with the higher power of Nature. Mixing monotheism and polytheism? Anyone committed to Monotheism will know that the said God declares worship of NO OTHER GOD BUT HIM. Which is why its mono-theism. I mean, anyone can do what they want religious wise. But I dont consider the person truly following the basic doctrine.
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