For people with a religion: why do you believe your faith is the right one when there are so many countless alternative possibilities and religions?
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Shlingslayer
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because it's my religion and it would kind of suck if it was wrong... but seriously, it's a matter of faith. you can't really say you have religious faith and at the same time believe that that your religion wrong. personally, i don't have specific religious faith. i have faith in God, and i believe most religions got some of it right and some of it wrong, but all that preach about a higher being, and being righteous and good to others have validity.
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sort of a mix between that and faith. when i was younger (i was raised in a church) i would call it blind faith. but now what i believe in is my choice, and i have the mental tools from higher education to evaluate what information religion (churches, priests, etc) presents to me and decide whether i think it is in line with God's intentions or not. when i look at all the bad that has come from a religious society, i can't call myself religious. but when i look at all the good, i can't discount it either. i still would call myself a person of faith.
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I'm a devout atheist and I consider atheism not a religion (because it doesn't really have all the elements), but definitely a faith. It takes as much faith to believe that gods don't exist as it does to believe that they do. I believe that my faith is right on the grounds that it makes the most sense to me, and also because I'm a big fan of Occam's Razor ("do not postulate entities beyond necessity", or as Wikipedia puts it "all other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best"). The non-existence of any gods just simply seems more plausible to me.
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Because it is right. Simple as that.
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