Most members of this forum dont have a religion so they dont feel a conflict of interest in breaking or bending commandments. On a similar note:
I grew up with a Muslim father and a Catholic mother, ironically I grew up catholic bc my dads family was open minded and my mothers family wasnt. Because the people in my dads family loved talking spirituality and also to pick on me while young they would ask me critical questions like "what religion is right?" and follow up with "but if its the same god why arent they both right?" when I would naively spurt out "Catholic is right because it just is." Do all 9 year olds have hamster logic or is it just me? Over the years it pushed my mind to asking questions rather than simply taking in dogma.
Years of accepting dogma without question takes a long time to undo but i challenge any religious person by asking, "how can you truly say you are catholic, muslim, etc. if you havent studied other religions? A more powerful statement/commitment to god would be studying every major world religion and committing to the one you currently follow because you can honestly say 'I studied every major world religion and I am a catholic, muslim, etc.' because I know it is the true religion." Im flabbergasted people wouldnt make this commitment to themselves and their God, after all it IS their eternal soul at stake.
I recommend you watch the following 2 films:
Religulous
What the bleep do we know
You can watch them both on netflix and theyre great entertaining movies to watch. Do this with an open mind and youll be closer to finding God than you would just listening to some pastor who just spews interpretations of 1000 yr old text he cant fully understand. Religulous is a great movie, it's currently my favorite date movie and even die hard religious chicks cant help but laugh when bill maher cracks jokes.
I grew up with a Muslim father and a Catholic mother, ironically I grew up catholic bc my dads family was open minded and my mothers family wasnt. Because the people in my dads family loved talking spirituality and also to pick on me while young they would ask me critical questions like "what religion is right?" and follow up with "but if its the same god why arent they both right?" when I would naively spurt out "Catholic is right because it just is." Do all 9 year olds have hamster logic or is it just me? Over the years it pushed my mind to asking questions rather than simply taking in dogma.
Years of accepting dogma without question takes a long time to undo but i challenge any religious person by asking, "how can you truly say you are catholic, muslim, etc. if you havent studied other religions? A more powerful statement/commitment to god would be studying every major world religion and committing to the one you currently follow because you can honestly say 'I studied every major world religion and I am a catholic, muslim, etc.' because I know it is the true religion." Im flabbergasted people wouldnt make this commitment to themselves and their God, after all it IS their eternal soul at stake.
I recommend you watch the following 2 films:
Religulous
What the bleep do we know
You can watch them both on netflix and theyre great entertaining movies to watch. Do this with an open mind and youll be closer to finding God than you would just listening to some pastor who just spews interpretations of 1000 yr old text he cant fully understand. Religulous is a great movie, it's currently my favorite date movie and even die hard religious chicks cant help but laugh when bill maher cracks jokes.